Transcripts For KTVU Mornings On 2 20140619

Eight suspicious fires in less than two weeks has this San Francisco neighborhood on edge. Ktvus Tara Moriarty is at one of the buildings targeted in the soma district. Coming up in two minutes, shell tell us why the places that have been targeted have some people believing the arsonist is trying to send a message. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve, how do we look . Dave, you look fabulous. [laughter] morning fog returns. Theres not a lot but a lot more than yesterday. Its not making much of an impact inland. Coast and bay will drop 5, 10 degrees. It looks nice, mild. And then the first day of summer. A lot of high clouds kind of taking aim at us. They will thin out. There is more of a westerly breeze. Yoekd downtown was 84. Today well go 72. A little bit more fog over the bay and also up and down the coast and temperatures with more of a west wind instead of an east wind definitely dropping. You can see a little bit of fog. Its not up here. Its down here. Inland temperatures will be warm to hot, 80s, 90s. 58 fairfield. 47 santa rosa, 50 San Francisco, half moon bay. 59 Mountain View. For some, its pretty warm. For others, its cool. Menlo park at 50. Foster city 54. Waiting for the sea breeze. 14 wont do it. Travis. North wind at concord. Still a hint of a puff. There is a little bit more of a sea breeze taking shape. When the fog returns, usually its a matter time. It will still be cool, mild, warm to hot. Depending upon any proximity to the coast. If you are by it, it will be in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Heres sal. Good morning. Traffic is moving along relatively well if you are driving on some commutes but  but the big problem is with the bay bridge. I want to mention lets go to the picture of the span. The traffic is not move moving well. The crash was right here. Its gone. As you can see, its been removed. But the traffic will still be a little slow as you drive through. Lets take a look at you can see. We can take a look at the toll plaza. I want to show you that traffic is completely slow. 45minute drive time. We might get lucky because in june, we have less volume and this might clear up a little bit faster than it normally does. Lets go and take a look at the south bay now. Northbound 101 traffic is okay. We have a couple of minor crashes. So far, the south bay is moderately heavy. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Topping our news, authorities in San Francisco are investigating a wave of latenight arson in the citys south of market neighborhood that some believe could be targeting developers. Ktvus Tara Moriarty joins us live from first and tehama where the most recent fire break out. What clues to investigators have to go on . Reporter that would be Surveillance Video. I think that will be key in solving the crimes. There is there there is a spring of them. A worker has seen Surveillance Video. You can see dumpsters were torched. It happened tuesday night at 10 00. The man says what you see a ball of fire once the fire is hit and then the arsonist running down the ail alley. The Arson Task Force is investigating eight suspicious fires in soma in less than three weeks. Before that, the same arsonist is believed to have started fires at a construction site caughted luna there are concerns that the arsonist could find other, more dangerous targets. Arson can create so much damage and the potential for the loss of life is so grave. Financial things can be recovered. Were concerned with that. But those can be recovered. The loss of life is never be recovered. Reporter investigators arent sure if all eight of the fires were done by the same arsonist. The choice of targets raises the question, was this an Anti Development arsonist. Investigators wont know until they catch whoever is responsible. When investigators were out here, they did take items from the dumpsters to try to figure out exactly how the fire started. Were live in San Francisco, Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. Theres also a fire danger in the east bay this morning. Crews made quick work last night of a small brush fire at gore don street near high street in gordon street near high street. The first call came in at 11 15 p. M. The dispatcher said it was a report of bushes on fire. The flames were quickly put out, but theres no word on a cause. People living in the area report seeing people hanging around there and smoking. 7 05. San Francisco Police searching for a suspect in a shooting last night that injured a man near Golden Gate Park at 6 45 last night near haight and stanyan. Police found a man shot several times. He was rushed to the hospital and is expected to survive. No details about opinion suspects. More closing arguments in the trial of two men accused of killing a 3yearold boy in oakland. Prosecutors say carlos nava was caught in the crossfire of a gang war. He was shot and killed almost three years ago on international boulevard. Willie torrence and Lawrence Denard are both charged with murder. Denards lawyer claims the prosecutors, a Police Officer and even witnesses lied about key evidence in the case. Also today, San Francisco state will award a posthumous degree to a student shot and killed two months ago. 26yearold Stephen Guillermo was shot by a neighbor when he tried to go into the neighbors apartment by mistake. The neighbor was arrested but was released after the District Attorney declined to file any charges. Now, at the time of his death, Stephen Guillermo needed a few units to graduate. At a ceremony set for this afternoon, his mother, brother and sister will receive his diploma for international relations. 7 07. Happening today the archbishop of San Francisco is getting ready to speak at a controversial rally in washington, d. C. The archbishop will address the crowd at the march for marriage along with former arkansas governor muck huckabee and rick santorum. Critics call this a hate rally targeting gays and lesbians. The march and rally is set to begin in one hour. Well have live coverage from the event in washington, d. C coming up in about 40 minutes. Oaklands city council has voted to allow the troubled Animal Shelter to operate independently. The vote comes after 2 investigates reported some animals may have been unnecessarily euthanized due to chronic staffing shortages. The San Francisco chronicle reports the council has also approved more staffing and a Citizen Oversight Committee for the shelter. Oaklands Animal Shelter has been without a permanent director for more than a year and is only open 21 hours a week. 7 08. The crisis in iraq getting worse now and experts warn this could lead to a worldwide gas shortage. Theres word that islamic militants may have seized iraqs biggest oil refinery. Although the Iraqi Government says its still in control, one witness says the witness have hung black banners to show their occupation. The volatile situation raising fears of a guess shortage in the middle east where some drivers have waited more than an hour to buy gas. While only 4 of the oil used here comes from iraq, economists still worry that gasoline prices may soar. For People Living on the margin, living paycheck to paycheck, if you are paying another 10, 20 a week for gasoline to get you to and from work, that can be a real burden. According to aaa, this mornings gas prices are at a sixyear high but here in the bay area were paying almost 50 cents a gallon less than what we were paying six years ago. Meantime, president obama and congressional leaders have a lot of wideranging powers to try to stop the insurgency in iraq. Yesterday, the president briefed top lawmakers including nancy pelosi. The president says he does not need congressional authorization but he said he would consult with lawmakers about possible military intervention, including air strikes. It is coming up on 7 10. Happening today with gas prices continuing to rise, people are encouraged to take Public Transportation. This is the ninth annual dump the pump day. Brian flores is live in San Francisco with some of the perks being offered today if you can ditch your car. Reporter good morning. We just talked about gas prices not too long ago. You go to a gas station recently, you know you are paying 4 a gallon. If you decide to dump the pump, you will be saving money, helping the environment. As people are getting off the trains here at the caltrain station here near at t, many are fed up with the high gas prices. This National Event started in 2006 right after gas prices went over the 3 mark. But since then, the goal has been to highlight, promote Public Transportation as a great alternative to driving your car. Many use public strtion transportation here. We did speak to some commuters who say they dump the pump every day because gas is so expensive. It is frustrating when you go to the pump and pay over 4. Im commuting from fairfield going into san jose. And i look at dump the pump and look at saving the gas prices, this is a priority for me. Reporter Civic Leaders from san mateo and santa clara counties are promising to leave their cars home today. And by the way, if you are taking vta, the eaks is offering a agency is offing a pair of san jose earthquake tickets and if you have part of the Photo Contest they are having, you need to submit a photo of how you plan to dump the pump. A household of two can save 10 grand if they reduce to one car per household. I just checked with the average price of gas here in San Francisco, its 4. 20. Were live here in San Francisco, brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. All right, brian. 7 12. Stopping thieves from stealing smartphones. Big announcement coming today about putting kill switches on smartphones and also new information about whether it will actually work. Up next parking without paying at the airport. The crackdown on travelers who are trying to save money. Good morning. Were still seeing traffic thats going to be very slow at the bay bridge toll plaza. 80 is backed up. Our newschopper2 will have a live picture coming up of the big backups approaching the bay bridge. Yesterday at this time, we were fogfree with a little north and east wind. Temperatures rocketed up. Thats not the case today. It will be cooler. I will show you how much cooler. Female announcer dont miss sleep trains 4th of july sale. Save 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Plus, pay no interest for 36 months on tempurpedic and icomfort. Sleep trains 4th of july sale is on now. Your ticket to a better nights sleep heat shields are compromised. We whats that alarm . Ures. Fuel cell two is down. Im going to have to guide her in manually. This is very exciting. But im at my stop. Come again . Im watching this on the train. Its so hard to leave. Good luck with everything. Watch tv virtually anywhere with the uverse tv app. With at t, the uverse revolves around you. Welcome back. 7 15. After debating it for almost three years, construction will soon start in walnut creek on a controversial multimillion dollar development. Final approval for the orchards project came from the walnut creek city council. A Safeway Store will anchor the mixedused center on Ygnacio Valley and oakgrove roads. Some objected to losing 200 trees and more traffic. The city Officials Say they need to revitalize the eastern side of town. Its expected to open by the end of next year. 7 15. Many air travelers say they are looking for alternatives to sky high parking fees at San Francisco international airport. In fact, it costs 18 a day to park at sfos longterm lot. Some are choosing to park their cars in neighborhoods in south San Francisco near interstate 208 and call a cab for a ride to the airport. Weve had reports that they actually pull up, park, grab their luggage about the same time that the cab is pulling up. Parking officers are now sticking warning notices on windshields and if the car is still there after 72 hours, south San Francisco police say they will tow the vehicle. A parking reservations plan for muir woods is getting a lukewarm reception from people who live in marin county. They are proposing the system to cut down on the number of visitors who clog the road into the popular area. The park service says a reservation system would limit visitors since parking along Redwood Creek would be eliminated. Some people who live near muir wide worry a reservation system would draw more people and others say there should be a cap on the number of visitors. Been a long time since ive been there, but boy is it beautiful. You have to get there early to get parking. Hey, sal is back. You are watching traffic. You have the chopper now. There are the metering lights, that doesnt look too bad. This is newschopper2. These are live pictures. This is whats happening. As we pan over to the left, you can see that the backup is okay but getting to it, lets say, from 580 and stick with me. Look. Theres the 880 ramp. People always ask me what ramp should i take . Well, today i can say dont take 8880. This is backed up all the way out to highway 24. This is because of an earlier wreck on the bay bridge. Its not as bad as it would be if this were a fall morning. But its still pretty bad. About a 45minute drive time and newschopper2 could just keep panning forever. We dont have that kind of time. You know what im talking about. You can see it 580 is a mess. Lets take a look at 880 northbound getting into downtown oakland. Still looks good. Quick look at the south bay. 101 northbound near de la cruz, there was a crash. Traffic is slow. 208 is your best bet. 7 18. Lets go to steve. We have a little bit of fog returning. Yesterday, the coast was clear. The only patch of fog in monterey. Temperatures with an east wind rocketed up. 80s and 90s. 91 in napa. Palo alto is 90. Westlake daly city, a blazing 76. Thats hot for them. San jose wasle 8. Thank you, antonio for the information there. Today, 85, 83. 62. The fog is back. Big drop there. 84 in san jose. Inland temperatures come down about 2, 4. Coast and bay come down, 10, 15 degrees. No fog, east wind. West wind makes a big difference. There were plenty of 80s, even at noon. We saw a couple. Well go 66 today. Thats close to average. 67, 53 is the average for this time of year. The record high not too hot but 92 back in 1920. Another low in the 1800s, 47. The system right there is gonna work its way in, a few high clouds streaming towards us. I think the combination of these two along with weak ping High Pressure will give us a cooldown. The fog is giving us a cooldown. I did see a little bit of a west wind at mare island. 40s to 50s. I think it was 68 at this time at brentwood. Today 61. Still warm but definitely cooler. Pittsburg, 60. 49 castro valley. Thats somewhere in the hills. 50s and 60s. 80s, 60s, 50s. A whopper of a system. Unbelievably strong low for mid june. And then out ahead of that, its drawing up a lot of moisture and the Severe Weather has been firing up, especially through the dakotas. Theres a lot of reports of tornadoes yesterday in south dakota. For us, focus our attention on that fog. 36 in tahoe. 54 ukiah. They were 91 yesterday. 54 in monterey. A lot more fog there and yesterday. The low cloud and some of the higher clouds will give us a little bit of a cooldown. Still warm to hot. Well inland, but definitely cooler, coast and bay with thing if continuing to work its way up the coast. A little bit. 91 clearlake. 90 st. Helena. A little more fog in the north bay as well. 65 in stinson. 91 vacaville. Richmond, 75. Walnut creek with a breeze, 86. 92 brentwood, oakley. Livermore, 89. 70 alameda and berkeley. 89 gilroy. 88 morgan hill. 73 santa cruz. But 8 had san jose, down 4 from yesterday. It will be even i think 6 degrees cooler out towards east san jose. 60s on the coast. 60s in the city. Low to mid70s. And then some low 80sen the peninsula 80s on the peninsula. Summer begins saturday but it looks like 60s, 70s and 80s. New this morning, a power outage right now for People Living near the Sonoma County fairgrounds. The power is out in santa rosa near the fairgrounds. 844 homes and businesses have no electricity right now, according to pg e. Now, they have a crew out there. They are trying to get the lights back on. But they are not sure when your power will be restored. All right. 7 21. The march for marriage is about to get underway in washington, d. C. Coming up in 20 minute, live coverage of how San Franciscos archbishop is playing a big role in this controversial event. Also another allegations against General Motors in that recall scandal. Next new concerns about some of the larger gm vehicles. Some people who live in San Francisco are calling for more Traffic Signals and flashing lights at an intersection where a homeless man was killed. The crash happened sunday at the i80 offramp at 5th street. The chp says a driver went too fast around a sharp curve and crashed through a guardrail and homeless encampment killing a man sleeping in a tent. Jaime juarez is accused of being under the influence. Were learning more about the generosity of a man killed in a road rage last month. A fund started by police for the family of lamb has received close to 125,000 in donations. Thats the most a San Jose Police fund has ever raised for the family of a crime victim. Lam was shot and killed last month in an apparent road rage shooting while running errands. Two people have been arrested in this case. New concerns about the safety of cars. The head of General Motors testified yesterday before Congress Facing tough questions about gms delay in recalling cars with bad ignition switches. I will not rest until these problems are resolved. As i told our employees, im not afraid of the truth and im not going to accept business as usual at gm. Now, a house subcommittee grilled Ceo Mary Barra on why it took ten years to recall the cars. An investigation hired by gm said there was no sign of a coverup. But families of some of the 13 people who were killed say gm employees who knew about the problems should face criminal charges. Im sincerely hoping that they hold the people that knew and did nothing criminally liable. If you and i went out and hurt or killed somebody, we would be held to the full extent of the law. Gm should not be held any different. Gm has fired 15 employees. It just recalled another 3. 4 million cars this week. Now, during yesterdays testimony, a docket surfacedden document surfaced of an e mail from engineers suggesting there might be a switch problem with millions of larger vehicles. Protecting the fans. New questions about who will provide security at the new 49ers stadium. Reporter technology that is supposed to deter criminals from stealing smartphones has been adopted by two major Tech Companies. Well have new of why Law Enforcement Officials Say it will work. And we are looking at the big backups approaching the bay bridge because of an earlier motorcycle crash. Newschopper2 right over downtown oakland area. 580 westbound slows right here. Not as bad as i thought but still slow getting to the bay bridge. From one extreme to the other, monday, very, very cool. Way below normal temperatures. Yesterday, way above. Some fog is back. So that will change some of the afternoon temperatures. Well show you some of those coming up. 7 30. We are live in front of the Los Gatos Apple store this morning. According to new numbers being released today, apple is getting credit for a trop in iphone thefts. Mup in two minutes coming up in two minutes, janine de la vega will have more on how apple accomplished this and the other companies announcing plans to follow in its footsteps. Kind of a coollooking set of pictures out there. It is. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. I just peeked outside. Sunshine everywhere. Everywhere. Right out there. Im gonna step out myself. We have a lot of sun. Theres fog back. Yesterday, the coast was clear. But its not today. Some of the Higher Elevations still in the 60s east of morgan hill. Gilroy made it down 48 this morning. 54 now. San jose state university, 63. 52 fremont. 52 saratoga. Some its cool. Others on the mild side. The fog has made a little bit of an inland push there. That will allow temperatures to cool down. Maybe a few high clownd painting the clouds painting the sky. Sunny, cool to mild to warm. If you are in the fog, it could be tough. If you are aware from it, they will be in the away from it, they will still be in the 8 o 9 80s and 90s. Heres sal. I want to go right to our newschopper2 on 580 westbound because im sorry. Yes. This is 580 westbound coming through and the traffic is going to be slow from here onto the bay bridge. You can notice some of the familiar landmarks here on 580 but it does not slow before 580 which is absolutely good considering how bad the bay bridge backup is. You can stick with if you are going out to lets say eastbound 80 going that way. Its not a bad thing but look at some of the ramps here. This has improved a little bit. A little bit here. The 880 ramp is still very slow getting to the bay bridge. You can see all of this traffic right here is still kind of slow but it has improved in the last few minutes. The bay bridge backup is about 30, 35 minutes. Again, 580 does not begin to slow before 980. All right. Lets take a look at the toll plaza from the other angle. This is backed up out through the macarthur maze and beyond. Also, were looking at the south bay. 101 has become very slow right near yerba buena, is when it slows. It gets better in sunnyvale. There was a minor crash there. Northbound 85 is slow and so is 280. Back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Happening today a major announcement about smartphones and antitheft technology. And a bay area District Attorney is one of the biggest supporters. Janine de la vega is live in los gatos now with more on the dramatic difference that cell phone kill switches are having on crime. Good morning, janine. Reporter good morning, dave. Apple already uses Kill Switch Technology on their phones which disables the phone and repedders it use renders it useless in case its stolen. Law enforcement officials are calling it a major milestone now that google and microsoft will incorporate kill switches. In the next release of its Windows Phone operating system, microsoft will have kill switches that can run on the nokia phones. Google will have a kill switch in its version of the android operating system, which is the most popular operating system worldwide. San francisco District Attorney George Gascon will be touting that in a News Conference happening the next 30 minutes on the east coast, talking about the dramatic decrease of phones. In new york, iphone theft went down 17 in the first five months of the year. In San Francisco, iphone robberies decreesed 30 decreased to 38 . In the same time period, they found theft of samsung and other popular devices increased. We all have so much information on our phone. If somebody were to steal it, i mean, that just makes you more vulnerable to Identity Theft or whatever and. I think it does the fact that theres opinion more comfortable. That shows thats a good thing. Reporter both leaders say this illustrates how kill switches will end the victimization of wireless consumers. Right now, theres legislation that requires that by next july all smartphones in california should come preequipped with theftdeterring technology rendering the devices useless. Now, in the next hour of mornings on 2, you will be hearing what District Attorney gascon had to say about the study and what hes pushing for in the future. Janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. 7 35. Fire investigators in oakland still closely watching the Diamond Canyon park area. They worry an arsonist is still on the loose this morning after several suspicious grass fires were set in the neighborhood tuesday afternoon. Firefighters and the police are on alert even private Security Guards are helping out. Someone that looks havent seen him around or driving or walking or maybe a backpack thats i dont know, something that would grab my attention. Now, that Security Guard said he helped put out two small fires on tuesday. The guard had the help of a neighbor who tossed her garden hose over the balcony to help out. A substitute music teacher in daly has been arrested accused of molestation. Brian butts was booked over the weekend into the san mateo jail on ten counts of lewd acts. Hes pled not guilty. Butts taught guitar and piano at music art studios, school of music and fine arts from april until june while the owner of the school was out of the country. Three of his teenaged students say he touched them during their lessons. 7 36. A serwoman accused of santa rosa woman accused of assaulting a boy she believes was bullying her daughter is scheduled to appear in court. Prosecutors could announce whether they plan to file charges against the woman. She was arrested after deputies say she went to her Childs School last month and grabbed the throat of a 12yearold boy she suspected of bullying her daughter. She denies touching the boy and no adults witnessed the confrontation. Facebook is back up and running this morning after a worldwide outage overnight. It went down just before 1 00 this morning and came back online about a halfhour later. Users who tried to log on saw an error message. Facebook has not said what caused the outage. Many went on twitter to joke about the outage using the hashtag facebookdown. Some tweets include facebook down, an important moment in history. Feels like the electricity being out looking for candles. Also expect people to cancel their flights as they cannot check in on facebook and let people know and many years from now, people will tell their children and grandchildren, i was there when facebook was down. 7 36 later today, a retired u. S. Marine who risked his life by jumping on a live grenade to save a fellow marine will receive the medal of honor for his service in afghanistan in 2010. He and another marine, his best friend, came under a grenade attack. Carpenter jumped on the grenade and took the full blast. He lost his right eye. But he saved his friend. Carpenter says hes humbled by todays honor. He says Service Members perform acts of bravery on the battlefield every day. Were finding out more about how long some military veterans wait for medical care at v. A. Hospitals. The acting secretary of the v. A. Says 10 of the veterans seeking healthcare, they have to wait at least 30 days for an appointment. That announcement came down a congressional investigation into whether some v. A. Hospitals falsified records to try to hide those long waits. The house of representatives is considering legislation that would allow veterans who cannot get an appointment to get private care. The Arizona Republic newspaper obtained reports that the v. A. Employees there were paid millions in bonus us. The phoenix v. A. Is at the heart of the nationwide scandal of those long wait times. Its alleged the staff there manipulated patient wait time records to trigger those bonuses. The records show more than 4,000 bonuses were paid to 2100 employees, including doctors, nurses, administrators, secretaries, and even more. The paper says about 10 million in bonuses were paid over three years. 7 39. A police labor group does not want its members to provide security at the new 49ers stadium unless they work for the Santa Clara Police department. The department is hiring outside Law Enforcement to assist with security at the new stadium when the 49ers kick off their season in september. But the Peace Officers Research Association of california says its against the practice of so called double badging. Thats when officers in one Department Work in a reserve capacity for another department. It opens up a lot of other problems. When you are working as a peace officer in a separate capacity, thats not covered by my primary Legal Defense fund. The city of santa clara is paying officers 55 an hour to work tenhour shifts during 49ers games and other stadium events. At the world cup dozens of soccer fans of the chilean team were arrested after forcing their way into a stadium to watch the match against spain. Without tickets to get in, they tore down fences and damaged the media center. The fans were stopped by military police before getting into the stands. At least 85 people were arrested. Chile, by the way, beat spain, 20, essentially knocking them out of the world cup. Happening now awesome. Thats what the youngest qualifier in the history of the u. S. Womens open is saying about her experience. Pam cook is in the studio now with a look at this local golfers incredible story. Its happening in North Carolina. Shes just 11 years old. Lucy li from redwood shores. Shes getting a lot of attention. Right now, shes playing in the u. S. Womens open. Shes doing pretty well. She just finished up her 11th hole. She has a bogey, double bogey but she has a birdie. Shes 7 over par. Not bad. I would think shes pretty nervous but in a News Conference yesterday, the 11 yearold looked and sounded pretty relaxed. I just want to go out there and have fun and play the best i can and i really dont care about the outcome. I want to have fun and learn. Lucy is just 51, weighs less than 100 pound. She can still drive that ball 230 yards. Her caddy says he will not be surprised to see her make the cut, which means shell be playing in the finals over the weekend. Well see. Everybody watching her right now. Well keep an eye on her score and give you updates in the next hour of mornings on 2. We also have a link on our website. Its pretty cool. You can see her scoring as she goes and you can get a link to that at ktvu. Com and click on the hot topics tab. See you in an hour. Shes about as tall as the length of her club. Its kind of funny watching her swing. Great comments on twitter from people watching her. Shes just darling. A string of suspicious fires in San Francisco. The place these fires happened. Crowds are gathering for the march for marriage in washington, d. C. And there will be a speech from San Franciscos archbishop. Well go live to d. C coming up. The eastshore freeway is pretty heavy as you drive out because of earlier problems on the bay bridge the well tell you more about bay bridge. Well tell you more about what happened and how long it will take you to get through the backup. Much, much cooler monday. Very warm to hot yesterday. The fog is back. That will take the temperatures down. Well tell you how much coming up. Safeway gets that staying on budget can be a real bear. Thats why theyve got lots of ways to save. Real big club card deals, the safeway app and gas rewards. 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Theres a lot of people waving their banners saying every child deserves a mom and dad. Theyve been playing music, playing christian songs. I did reach out to organizers and they are trying to track down San Franciscos archbishop for me. Were trying to get an interview. We know 30,000 people in the bay area signed a petition calling on the archbishop to cancel his appearance at the march. They slipped through the doors at the archbishop slipped documents through the doors of the archbishop. I i [inaudible ] reporter we do know the archbishop is scheduled to speak at 20 after 8 00. Well check in. In the meantime, i will try to track him down for that one on one interview. Kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. Pg e plans to spend millions of dollars improving security at its substations after last years sniper attack at san joses metcalf substation. It was attacked by gunfire in april of last year. That attacker also cut communication lines, which affected cell phone and 911 office. Pg e says it will spend more than 100 million over the next three years protecting substations in northern and central california. Meantime, electricity and natural gas rates for pg e customers, they are gonna go up. They could go up. A law judge with the Public Utilities commission issued a proposal that would allow pg e to collect 6. 8 more in revenue. Pg e says the actual increase in your bill would be well below that. The full commission will probably make a final decision later this year. 7 48. Want to check in with sal. He told us there was an accident earlier on the upper deck of the bay bridge. Its cleared now. Its amazing how one little problem can create kind of the snowball effect. And because its june, we dont have as big of a backup as it could have been. If it happened in april, we would be talking about 880 backed up to highway 13. Today its backed up to the 980 interchange. And 80 is beginning to pick up. So the june effect is really good for traffic even though its still a 45minute drive time between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. I try to look at the positive side. It could be much worse. But you will be waiting for a while. When you get to the toll plaza, its a 45minute wait if you are at the end of the line before you make it across to the city side. But things are clearing up faster than i thought. Thats because its june. Southbound 880 if you are driving from 238 to fremont, thats also slow. San mateo bridge, moderate. About a 20minute drive across the bridge. Dumbarton bridge has a delay getting across. 25 minutes across that span as well. Lets go to steve. All right, sal. Thank you, sir. A little haze around but a lot more fog compared to yesterday. Temperatures went up, way up. Forecast headlines talk about a cooler pattern because fog has returned. You can see the biggest drop but i think inland temperatures come down. Friday through sunday looks quiet. Nice, mild, warm. 60s, 70s, coast and bay. Yesterday was a cooker. Napa, 91. Palo alto, 90. Westlake, daly city, 76 and san jose downtown 88. It was 91 i think east san jose. Today, 85 for napa. 83 for palo alto. 62, the fog is back, for westlake. Even though its clear, there is more of a westerly breeze. San francisco, officially hit 78. Much warmer in parts of the city. 82 civic center. Today 66 coming down. There is a lot more fog today. Climate data says normal high, 67, 53. Pretty close. 66, 53 looks to be where were at today. The low was 53. The record, 92, 1920. 47 pack in the 1800s. A couple of systems here, higher clouds filtering in. It will thin out, not do much. But this will increase the fog. Its increasing off the coast. I expect that to play into a cooler forecast. You can see some of it beginning to enchance right there. I know it will impact those near the coast or bay. Inland temperatures will probably get more of a breeze. 40s, 50s, 60. It was running much warmer. A few low 50s. Foster city is 58. Menlo park, 54. The big news continues to be that low which gave us our huge cooldown on monday and then slowly worked its way into montana. Heavy rain, snow there and then Severe Weather out ahead of it. Its moving ever so slowly into canada. Still into montana. Ahead its drawing up gulf moisture and Severe Weather and an active pattern all the way from the braks to oklahoma great lakes to oklahoma. The fog will give us a cooler forecast. 30s up in the mountains. With High Pressure kind of just here but not that strong, it will give us near seasonal temperatures. Fog for some. Fun sun sunny for some. Warm to hot inland. 80s to low 90s for some. 83 novato. 7070 alameda. 84 san jose. 89 gilroy. 79 fremont. Sunnyvale at 82. Same for woodside. San bruno at 70. 61 daly city to pacifica 60. The fog is back for some on the coast. That means cooler and then saturday summer solstice. Near normal temperatures. All right, steve. Zooming parking rates at sfo, coming up in 23 minutes how the high parking prices are affecting communities near the airport and what the police are doing about it. Neighbors call it a nice, quiet block, but there have been several violent attacks. What police are saying about the crime. Female announcer looking for the hottest deal on a new mattress . Then dont miss sleep trains 4th of july sale. Right now at sleep train, save 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. Plus, pay no interest for 36 months on tempurpedic and serta icomfort. Big savings and interestfree financing . These deals arent just hot. Theyre explosive dont miss sleep trains 4th of july sale. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep welcome back. You awake . This will jolt you awake. Look at that car dangling off the fourth floor of a parking garage in los angeles. The driver crashed through the barrier yesterday, accidentally stepped on the gas, not the brakes. Thankfully those cables caught the car. The driver was rescued. They were actually able to pull the car back into the garage. Wow. Police in San Francisco are washing people about a rash of warning people about a rash of robberies. There were three robberies yesterday morning. They occurred within a mile of each other. With the first on on union an van ness. Two people robbed a man and gut and then a 22yearold man and 17yearold girl were robbed at 17th and hyde. Officers say the suspects beat their victims for no reason. Ordered them down to the ground, robbed them of their property and violently kicked them and assaulted them as well. The two suspects assaulted and robbed a man at kerney and vallejo. They are described as latino, between 20, 30 years old, driving a fourdoor sedan. There were three other Armed Robbers in San Francisco late tuesday night, early yesterday morning but they do not appear related to the three that we just mentioned. 7 56. The Hayward Police department, the latest bay area Law Enforcement agency to move to give bodymounted cameras to Police Officers. These small cameras can be worn on any part of a Police Officers body. This video shows the cameras can be mounted on sunglasses. Hayward police tested several systems last year. The Police Department will ask the city council next month to buy about 130 cameras. We can collect evidence with it, conduct interviews with it, document scenes with it. The other piece, it provides accurate documentation of a Police Contact with a citizen. Hayward hopes have the cameras next year. Oakland police have body mounted cameras. San francisco and san jose are just two of the local department departments considering the local departments considering the system. Drivers being urged to leave their cars at home today. Find out what the driving is in this years dump the pump gam pain campaign. Reporter were live in San Francisco where an arsonist is on the loose. Well tell you which neighborhood is being targeted, what buildings are being, tad and what a targeted and what a worker has to say about Surveillance Video. Traffic is still pretty busy if you are approaching the bay bridge. 880 getting into the act. Well tell you the drive time here. Fog has worked its way back. Not too far inland. A little bit over the coast. But theres more of a breeze in the old ktvu east bay tree here. Well see if that translates into cooler inland temperatures as well. Good morning nelly woah. Hey have you ever tried honey nut cheerios . Love em. Neat now you on the other hand. You need some help. Why . Look atchya. What is that . You mean my honey wand . [ shouting ] [ splat ] come on. Matter of fact. [ rustling ] shirt. Shoes. Shades. Ah wow now that voice. My voice . [ autotuned ] whats wrong with my voice . Yeah man, bee got swag be happy be healthy thats gotta go too. Hey must be the honey [ sparkle ] sweet. Hey must be the honey good morning. Welcome back. These are live pictures. Could a serial arsonist be on the loose in San Francisco . Again, these are live pictures. See this burned out dumpster . This is in the south of market area. The latest of several suspicious fires under investigation right now. Now, ktvus Tara Moriarty has been out there since 4 30 this morning. Coming up in a couple of minutes, shell tell you why they think this could be a targeted attack. Stay tuned for the details. Good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Thursday, june 19th. Im dave clark. Im tori campbell. Quick look at weather and traffic. Steve, first day of summer on saturday. Longest day of the year. Correct, correct. Were only two days away. Yesterday, it felt like summer. Thats for sure. Temperatures soared up in the 80s and 90s. That included almost everybody. A little bit different pattern today. We have more of a westerly breeze. Its not rip roaring or anything. Its there and the fog is increasing. Its also making a push out the scattered clouds make it out to vallejo and that tells me well cool off. 60s on the temperatures. Fairfield just dropped to 61. 52 up in santa rosa. We had 40s. Theres fog in areas that did not have it yesterday. Brentwood yesterday was 68. 58 la fayette. Orinda, 57. San rafael, 60. A little bit of coog and it continues to thicken unup. Inland will come down a little bit. Still warm to hot. 80s to 90s for some. Down a couple of degrees. Over by the coast and bay, a 10, 15degree drop. Heres sal. Right now were still looking at slow traffic all over the place. I want to mention that at the bay bridge toll plaza, we have a pretty big delay and the traffic but the traffic is moving better than it was. If you could just see that the commute here is moving better than it was just by looking at the cars moving through, the fastrack lanes, sometimes its stopped but the backup is still about 40 minutes drive time into San Francisco. Could be a lot worse and i want to mention that traffic in the south bay has become worse in the last few minutes. Northbound 101 very slow all the way into Mountain View with just a short break. Lets go to interstate 880 now. Northbound, pretty slow here in oakland. Driving past the coliseum. Its about a 20minute drive from san leandro to downtown oakland. I do want to mention that on the sunol grade, we had an earlier jackknifed truck. Kind of moved over to the shoulder but the tow truck took up a lane. Todays 680 traffic into fremont is slower than usual. Back to the desk. All right. Thank you, sal. Authorities in San Francisco are investigating a wave of latenight arsons in the citys south of market neighborhood. One of the most recent fires broke out tuesday night at first and tehama. Tara moriarty is live from the location to tell us how all of these fires are connected. Good morning, tara. Well, good morning. Investigators arent sure if all of these fires are connected. They believe the ones that happened before tuesday night is definitely the work of the same arsonist. They are not sure if that person is responsible for the dumpsters being torched. We are at tehama and first, less than a block where another fire broke out at first and follow folsom. Before tuesdays fires, the same arsonist is believed to have started small fires at the construction site of a luxury high rise called lumina and the nearby office of a contractor in charge of the project. There are concerns that the arsonist could kind other, more dangerous targets. Always with arson, we want to catch them right away. We dont want to see anything tragic occur. So for us, if somebody is out in public and sees something suspicious, please call us. Reporter investigators are not sure if all eight of the fires were done by the same arsonist again but the choice of argts does targets does raise the question, is this an antidevelopment arsonist . They wont know until they catch whoever is responsible. We do know that when investigators were out here, they took items from inside the dumpsters. Theres two in in the ail in the alleyway. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. Small brush fire in oakland was put out last night at gordon street near high street. Fire crews were alerted about 11 15 p. M. They had a call about bushes being on fire. The flames were put out. We still dont know how the fire started. An investigation continues. 8 04. Closing arguments continue in the trial of two men accused of killing a 3yearold boy in oakland. Prosecutors say carlos nava was caught in the crossfire of a gang war when he was shot and killed almost three years ago on international boulevard. Willie torrence and Lawrence Denard are both charged with murder. Denards lawyer claims that prosecutors, a Police Officer, and witnesses lied about key evidence in the case. Today, San Francisco state will award a posthumous de posthumous degree to a student shot. Stephen guillermo was shot by a neighbor when he tried to enter an apartment by mistake. The neighbor was arrested but released after the District Attorney declined to file charges. At the time of his death, Stephen Guillermo needed just a few units to graduate. At the ceremony this afternoon, Stephen Guillermos mother, brother and sister will receive his diploma for international relations. 8 05. The San Diego Padres honor and paid tribute to tony gwynn last night in the teams first home game since go win died. [ applause ] now, the San Diego State Baseball Team trueout that first threw out that first beach. He took a leave of absence earlier this year while being treated for cancer. Look at that display there. The padres will hold a free public memorial for tony gwynn next thursday. He died of cancer at the age of 54. Happening today as gas prices continue to rise, some people will be taking Public Transportation. Today is the 9th annual dump the pump day. Brian flores is live in San Francisco with some of the perks being offered today. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning. Several people are taking part in dump the pump day. One of the reasons, the rising prices of gas, well above 4 a gallon in many places. You will be saving money in that aspect as well as saving the environment as well. As people are getting off at the caltrain station in San Francisco, many are fed up over the high gas prices. This National Event started in 2006 right after gas prices went over the 3 mark. Since then, the goal has been to highlight and promote Public Transportation as a great alternative to driving your karl. Several commuters arent just dumping the pump today. They do it every day because Public Transportation is convenient and also because gas prices, they say, are ridiculous. Its pretty crazy. I can remember back all the way in the first gas crisis in the 1970s and the prices were below a dollar then. So 5 is pretty shocking. But i try not to worry about it. I get to take the train every day. It would take about 45 in gas prices. Public transportation, i cut that in half. Reporter and he travels from fairfield to san jose every day. It takes him an hour and 45 minutes to take Public Transportation. Some Civic Leaders from san mateo and santa clara counties, promising to leave their cars at home today. Take either cal tran, samtran or vta and talking about some of the perks if you are taking vta, theres a pair of earthquake ticket tickets and clipper cards being offered. A household of two can save 10 grand if they decide to use one car instead of two. A gallon of gas here in San Francisco, its now 4. 20. A lot of people deciding to dump the pump today. Were live in San Francisco, brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. 8 08. New developments in the crisis in iraq. President obama is due to make a major announcement about iraq at 9 30 our time. Now, a u. S. Official also says the president is expected to announce deploying about 100 green berets to iraq to help train and advise the iraqi forces. The administration has been weighing whether to press the shiite of baghdad to resign to prevent disgruntled sunnis from triggering a civil war. Experts are warning there could be a worldwide gas shortal. Althoughall its a very volatile situation already leading to a gas shortage in the middle east. Some drivers there are waiting more than an hour to get their gasoline. While only 4 of oil used here in the u. S. Comes from iraq, economists are worried gasoline prices could soar. For people who are living on the margin who are living paycheck to paycheck, if you are paying 10, 20 a week for gasoline to get you to and from work, that can be a real burden. Now, aaa says this mornings gas prices are at a sixyear high. But here in the bay area, were paying almost 50 cents a gallon less than what we were paying six years ago. 8 09. The city of larkspur has rejected a controversial plan effecting future affecting few future housing and development in the north bay near the proposed rail station. The plain was designed to add more housing, businesses and jobs near the station which slated to be built near highway 101 and the marin country mart. People in larkspur complained about too much congestion. The Peninsula Humane Society is hosting a special pajama party hoping to get pets adopted home. Anyone who atonights will get a adopts will get a free night stay at the wag hotel. Its an upscale pet boarding facility in redwood city in San Francisco. The center for compassion will open saturday morning at 11 00 and stay open until midnight. Visitors are encouraged by the way come in wearing pajamas. Okay. That sounds like a good idea. Preventing crooks from stealing smartphones. A big announcement coming about putting kill switches on smartphones and the new information about whether it will actually work. But first a fastmoving fire leaves two families in sunnyvale with almost nothing. After the break, the quick an actions of a tree trimmer that may help save lives. There is a bright spot. Theres also a reason you might want to consider getting out of your car on this particular day. 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Watch tv virtually anywhere with the uverse tv app. With at t, the uverse revolves around you. This morning, neighbors are coming together to help two families who lost their homes in a massive fire in sunnyvale. We brought you live coveraged yesterday on ktvu. Neighbors have offered food and also help rebuilding the homes that went up in flames around 9 30 yesterday morning on lantana drive. A tree trimmer working in the neighborhood saw the flames and knocked on doors to make sure everyone got out safely. Thank you, thank you, everyone. Thank you. There is a god. Thank you. Firefighters believe the fire started in a cypress tree before spreading to the two holes. One of them housed a daycare. One child was at the daycare when the fire started but was not hurt. After almost three years of debate, construction will soon start in walnut creek on a controversial multimillion dollar development. Final approval for the orchards project came this week from the walnut creek city council. A Safeway Store will anchor the mixeduse center on ygnacio and oakgrove. The plan faced strong opposition from those who objected losing 200 trees and also the idea of more traffic. City leaders say its needed to revitalize the east side of town. Its expected to open by the end of next year. State lawmakers rejected a plan that could have cut down on the number of people evicted from their homes under San Franciscos controversial ellis act. The bill proposed by state senator mark leno of San Francisco requires landlords to own a building for at least five years before they could use the ellis act to evict tenants. The ellis act was intented to help owners who dont want to be in the rental business but leno says investors have been using it as a way to buy property, evict tenants and turn properties into condos. Leno has one week to make changes and put the bill to another vote. A bill expanding teacher tenure protections in california could be heading back to a senate committee. The proposal, which failed to go through yesterday, would give tenure to teachers in Small School Districts with less than 250 students after three years. The Committee Plans to hear the bill again but its author needs to secure another vote in order to be successful the next time around. What i do know is there are thousands of teachers and nurses and counselors who every year have to face the prospect that they dont have a job the next year. Now, just last week, a judge in los angeles ruled the tenure system is unconstitutional and that it makes it hard to fire ineffective teachers. Many air travelers say they are looking for alternatives to sky high parking fees at San Francisco international airport. It costs 18 a day to park at sfos longterm lot. So some are choosing to park their cars in neighborhoods in south San Francisco near interstate 280 and then they call a cab for a ride to the airport. Weve had reports that they pull up, park, grab their luggage about the same time that the cab is pulling up. Parking officers are now sticking warning notices on windshields. If the car is still there after 72 hours, police say they will tow the vehicle. That will cost you a lot more than the longterm parking. Hey, sal, you are watching the east shore and fg else. And everything else. Hey, i was gonna say just get somebody to drop you off. Yeah. Lets take a look at the commute now. Traffic is gonna be slow still and were starting off in fact, i think they are waiting for me there we go. I have to put the right thing up here. On the eastshore freeway, westbound 80, the traffic is going to be busy as you drive through. Nice draw of the arrow. Look at the improve there. I love that. Things are improving. Lets go up to the bay bridge toll plaza and the traffic is backed up for about a 25, 30 minute delay. Weve come back to normal despite the big accident and this is no doubt a sign that we are getting the june less volume thick going on, technical name, things are improving much quicker than they would have despite the earlier injury accident at the bay bridge. 101 is a mess in san jose. Its all slow from capitol expressway solid up to Mountain View. Unfortunately, were not having a good day here. 680 southbound is slow into fremont because of earlier problems with a truck accident and 880 slow from 238 to fremont. Not every commute is Getting Better but at least the bay bridge commute has improved. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sal. It will be cooler today because of the answer, my friends, dave the wind. The wind. Here at noon tori and i were its getting warming. It was. It was really very, very warm. Very fast. Today cooler coast and bay and even inland because we have more of a delta breeze and sea breeze. San jose 8 san jose was 88 yesterday. Thats hot. Napa, 91. Today, 85, 83. 61. What . Yes, the fog is back. 84 in san jose. So coast and bay will trop a good 10, 15. Inland, i will drop a good 0, 15. Inland 10, 15. Inland i think 5. One of my twitter friends sent me a photo that the fog is back looking at san bruno. 66 the high today. There might be some areas that dont get warmer than that. Average temperature, 67, 53 in San Francisco. Today will be close. The low was 53. The record 92 92. A couple of things going on. The front right here even though its weak, its starting to enhance the fog. That ribbon on the coast is joining together whats coming across the pacific. That will give us a cooler pattern. Its like a little ripple there. Coastal eddy forming as well. Possibility it might develop. That would definitely pick up the fog bank. Theres more here than there was two hours ago. Thats a sign things are beginning to cool down. 60s on the temperatures. 50s. We were much warmer. In fact, some areas were in the 70s. Thats not the case now. Low 50s. Mid50s. Well drof drop off the temperatures. 12 at fairfield. Some of the Higher Elevations are showing a much stronger breeze. If livermore is calm, theres not the delta breeze. The fog is there. Thats usually a sign of things on their way. 49 up in tahoe. They made it to the 30s today. 59, 64 ukiah. Sacramento. One more day inland temperatures. Clearlake, vacaville, oakley. I think most locations come down. Warm to hot inland but not as hot as yesterday. That wind direction makes all of the difference in the world. 60s, 70s, 80s, to 90s. 86 walnut creek with a breeze. 72 in oakland. Pleasonton, 88. 88 morgan hill. 60s low on the coast in the city, 70s 80ss on the peninsula. It looks like well keep it there saturday, the first day of summer. Thank you, steve. 8 21. March for marriage. A controversial demonstration kicking off in our Nations Capital right now here is a live like and thats San Franciscos archbishop speaking at the moment. 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Mattress discounters House Majority leader eric cantor is stepping down after his unexpected primary loss last week and right now california congressman Kevin Mccarthy of bakersfield looks like he will be selected for replacing him but that opens up his current position as majority. What will that fill position is still unknown. There are concerns about the safety of cars on the road. This after the ceo of General Motors testified on capitol hill yesterday and she faced tough questions about her companys delay in recalling cars with defective ignition switches. I will not rest until these problems are resolved. As i told our employees, im not afraid of the truth and i will not accept business as usual at gm. A house subcommittee grilled mary barra on why it took ten years to recall the cars. 54 crashes are blamed on the defective switches which turned off Safety Equipment including air bags. An investigator hired by gm said there was no sign of a coverup. But families of some of the 13 People Killed in the crashes say gm employees who knew about the problems should face criminal charges. Im sincerely hoping that they hold the people that knew and did nothing criminally liable. I mean, if you and i went out and hurt or killed, is we would be held to the full extent of the law. Gm shouldnt be held any different. Gm has since fired 15 employees and it just recalled another 3. 4 million more cars this week. During yesterdays hearing a document surfaced of an email from gm engineers several years ago, suggesting there was a switch problem with millions of larger model cars. All right, tori. A football fight on the field involving one of the players many 49er fans love to hate. What seahawks all pro cornerback did to trigger this fight with his own team. Reporter big news in the smartphone industry happening this morning. Well share new statistics that helped prompt more Tech Companies to install kill switches in their products. Highway 4 has improved. Traffic will be a little better coming up to concord. Nearby 680 will be slow. Well tell you about the east bay commute. It will still be sunny and warm inland. Theres a lot more fog. It will be cooler. Well have the cooler forecast for thursday and see whats in store. Female announcer looking for the hottest deal on a new mattress . Then dont miss sleep trains 4th of july sale. Right now at sleep train, save 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. Plus, pay no interest for 36 months on tempurpedic and serta icomfort. Big savings and interestfree financing . These deals arent just hot. Theyre explosive dont miss sleep trains 4th of july sale. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep every child comes from a man and a woman. Every child has a right, a natural human right, to know and be known by, to love and be loved by their own mother and father. Just minutes ago, San Franciscos archbishop spoke to a crowd gathered in washington, d. C. At the march for marriage rally. Were out there live this morning. These are live pictures. You are look at the event happening right now in washington, d. C. This is stirring up a lot of controversy back here in the bay area because of the archbishops involvement. Organizers say this rally is designed to promote marriage as a sacred union between one man and one woman. But there are critics who say its a hate rally, targeting geauses and lesbians. Kyla campbell is there right now covering the rally and the march that follows. Coming up in 15 minute, kyla will have a full report on whats being said and how the crowd out there is reacting. Good morning. Thank you for joining us for mornings on 2. Its thursday, june 19th. Im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Steve is over there. We do have a lot more fog today than yesterday. The fog disappeared. Temperatures soared. Not as hot as yesterday. There will still be a few low 90s. Weak front is coming in enhancing a lot of the fog. I think that will play into a much cooler forecast. A few high clouds will drift over. Oakland, 54. Well end up at 72. Thats down 12 from yesterdays 84. There will be a westerly breeze behind that. Had an easterly breeze coming off the caldecott. That sent temperatures up coast and bay. A lot more fog. You can see it beginning to form there. Not much of a breeze yet. 50s and 60s on the temperatures. These are definitely running, i think travis was almost 70 yesterday at this time. We had a lot more 40s. Even though the nights are short, look for an increase in the fog. That means fog, sun, cool for some. Mild to warm. But not as warm or hot as yesterday. But still some upper 80s, 90s. Usually takes a while. 50s, 60s to low 90s. Heres sal. We have slow traffic on on 880 on 880. The traffic is gonna be slow as you can see driving through. It doesnt really get better until you make your way around the 23rd Street Corner there. So please give yourself extra time if you are driving into oakland. It will take a while to get around that corner and just a latemorning commute. Lets go to the bay bridge toll plaza, thats a 25, 30minute delay. It has improved from what it was before. The traffic will be busy. Still in you are driving in. 680 southbound. I want to mention that 680 coming out of the pleasanton and into the fremont area has been extra slow because of earlier problems. 580 westbound, the drive time here has been about 40 minutes. Its a little better than it was. Watch for slow traffic coming through. 8 33. Lets go back to the desk. All right, sal. Happening today two high tech giants will add antitheft kill switches to their smartphones. Law enforcement agencies say this technology is responsible for a dramatic drop in the number of stolen smartphones around the world. Janine de la vega joining us live in los gatos with more on the announcement and the benefits of the Kill Switch Technology. Reporter good morning, dave. Right now, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon is in new york addressing the media about this issue. Hes talking about these switches that will render the phones useless if they are stolen. He says google and microsoft will be offering it as well. In the next release of the windows operating system, microsoft will have kill switches that can run on the nokia phones and google will have one for the next android operating system. As i mentioned, gascon and new York Attorney general Eric Snyderman are holding a conference talking about thefts. In new york, iphone theft went down 17 in the first fiferent months of the year five months of the year. In the same time period, they found theft of samsung and other popular devices increased. Customers are pleased more companies are adopting the antitheft feature. I think thats wonderful. Thats what we need. Things happen. People steal things. If they cant afford it or they want it, they want to resell it. Yeah. Both leaders say this illustrates how kill switches will end the victimization of wireless consumers. Right now, theres legislation that requires that by next july all smartphones in california could come preequipped with theft deterring technology to render the device useless. That bill passed the First Assembly Committee Earlier this week. Reporting live from los gatos, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Thanks, janine. Fire investigators in oakland are keeping a close eye on the citys Diamond Canyon park area. They fear an arsonist is still on the loose after several suspicious grass fires in the neighborhood tuesday afternoon. Firefighters and Police Officers are on alert even private Security Guards are stepping in to help out. Someone that looks i havent seen them around driving or walking, maybe a backpack thats i dont know. Something that would grab my attention. That Security Guard said he helped put out two small fires on tuesday. The guard says he did have the help of a neighbor who tossed her garden hose over her balcony. A palo alto man is in jail this morning, facing felony charges, a bizarre case involving teenagers and fireworks. Police say 24yearold daniel escogil attacked teens. The attack occurred after the teens threw fireworks over the roof of a parking garage and hit him on the head. Police say he took the elevator to the top of the garage and then punched and robbed the teens. A parking reservation plans for muir woods is getting a lukewarm reception for people who live nearby. They are proposing to cut down on the number of visitors who clog the the road into muir woods. This would limit visitors since parking along Redwood Creek would be eliminated. Some people who live near muir woods worry a res reservation. History in the making on a golf course in North Carolina. An 11yearold girl is getting a lot of attention for her play and her fashion. Pam cook is the in the studio with more. Shes just darling to watch. Lieuly li, just 11 years old lucy li, just 11 years old. Shes a local girl from redwood shores. They can drive the ball 230 yards but in addition to her golf, yes, shes getting a lot of attention for her fashion. Usually decked out in ruffles, hearts, sparkles and zebra prints for the practice rounds. Today, look at that. Shes all in red, white and blue in honor of the u. S. Open. Shes on her 14th hole. Shes 7 over par. Shes held that 7 over par for a couple of holes now the shes getting tough advice from some of the best players in the world. If it was my kid, i wouldnt let her play in an open qualifier at 11 but thats just me. Its pretty amazing. I try not to think about it. Im just another player trying to do the best i can. Reporter another player. She said she never feels intimidated on the golf course and wants to have fun. She started playing when she was 7 years old, not that long ago, watching her brother and dad play. When asked if her dad can beat her, she said, hes actually pretty good and then she laughed and said no, he cannot beat her. We have a link at ktvu. Com to the live score card. You can watch it as she plays today. The u. S. Open going on right now at pinehurst in North Carolina which, for the first time, the ladies are playing the same course as the men. Fun to watch. Great story. 8 39. At the world cup, dozens of sockers fans soccer fans arrested. This was for the match against spain. This is wild. They didnt have tickets to get in. They tore down fences and damaged the media center. They were finally stopped by military police before they got into the stands. At least 85 people were arrested. Chile beat spain and spain was knocked out of the world cup. Well, first it was the 49ers, now it appears even some Seattle Seahawks players are unhappy with their teammate, richard sherman. During practice yesterday, the hallpro, corner back got into a scuffle with fill bates. They punched each other. The two men later shook hands and shrugged off the scuffle as friendly competition that briefly got out of hand. Certainly no love lost between the 49ers and sherman. He likes to push things. Yes. 8 40. A halfdozen armed robberies during ten hours in San Francisco. Coming up in 15 minutes, well tell you what half of the attacks have in common. Reporter San Francisco investigators are trying to figure out who was responsible for a string of suspicious fires. Some of them tied to a luxury high rise condo. Well tell you what clues officials have to go on. Good morning. It looks like there was a truck on fire. It looks like the fire might be out. We have i can see some flashing lights. Its causing a big delay again for the bay bridge. Well tell you more coming up. A lot of sunshine inland. But with a lot of fog coast and bay. Thats going to bring a cooler trend. Well show you the thursday forecasted highs. 8 43. Lets bring you up to date on some of the top stories as we told you a halfhour ago, president obama will address the nation at 9 30 this morning our time about the crisis in iraq. One u. S. Official says the president is expected to announce hes sending about 100 green berets to iraq to train and advise iraqi forces on how to fight the islamic militants trying to take over iraq. Theres concern that the militants may have taken over an iraqi oil refinery, creating fears of future gas shortages around the world. Ktvu will carry the president s address live right here on channel 2 and also live stream it at ktvu. Com. Today is the 9th annual dump the pump today. Drivers are being asked to leave your cars at home and ride mass transit. This event started in 2006, right after gasoline prices shot past the 3 mark. Gas prices right now, as you know, are well above 4 a gallon. And a wave of light night arsons in San Francisco south of market neighborhood are being investigated this morning. Ktvus Tara Moriarty has been on this all morning, joining us again now to tell us why these fires are making developers in the San Francisco area very nervous. Good morning, tara. Reporter well, good morning. There is Surveillance Video that shows an arsonist scorching two dumpsters. One has been removed. The other one is behind me. We spoke to the person who manages the building. They say they will not release that video to the media. Police are picking it up this morning but it shows a ball of fire coming from one dumpster and the arsonist running down this alleyway in this direction. Were at tehama and first, less than a block from another fire that broke out at first and folsom. The Arson Task Force is investigating eight suspicious fires in less than three weeks. They believe the same arsonist is started fires at a construction site and of the office of the contractor in charge of the office. Investigators are not sure if its the same arsonist. Investigators are looking into that. They want to be able to determine if they are related or separate. If they are separate, we have a lot more work to do. Reporter there are concerns the arsonist could find other, more dangerous targets. The choice of targets does raise the question, is this an antidevelopment arsonist . Investigators simply dont know until they catch whoever is responsible. Now, we do know that investigators came out here to the alleyway yesterday and they did take some debris that was inside both dumpsters and they will run tests and try to figure out how this fire started. Live from San Francisco, im Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. 8 46. And happening now the march for marriage event is now underway in washington, d. C. The archbishop of San Francisco spoke to the crowd just a short time ago despite strong local pressure not to attend. Ktvu channel 2 reporter Kyla Campbell is at the scene right now at the march and rally at the Nations Capital and lets us know what he had to say. Kyla . Reporter i was listening as the archbishop spoke for about 10, 15 minutes. He wasted little time getting to his point, saying that the foundational good of society is for every child to have a mom and a dad. Every child comes from a man and a woman. Every child has a right, a natural human right, to know and be known by, to love and be loved by their own mother and father. Reporter he went on to say that society is hurt and broken and there is a lot of work to do. He says society is hurt and broken. He says its important for them to show love to people hostile for their opinion. The archbishop said we must recognize people on the other side that they have goodwill but its misdirected and thats bound to upset some of the 340,000 people who signed petitions calling for the archbishop to come not here come. Still, the archbishop says differing opinions here must show love. He said that people will figure out that every child comes from a father and a mother. Its important for children to connect with they. This crowd has grown. Were estimating at least a few thousand people. Were getting sprinkles right now. A bigger storm is expected shortly. But these folks are expected to get up and take a walk around the capitol a little over an hour. Well hear from them and have more coverage for you and well hear from the archbishop throughout the day. Live in washington, Kyla Campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. Major breaking news at the bay bridge. A vehicle on fire. Four left lanes are blocked. This is in the westbound direction, sal . Thats right. Were getting reports that apparently this vehicle may have been set on fire. Thats the unusual part. This vehicle may have been set on fire. If you can see, the bridge cruiser there blocking the lanes. Oakland fire is on the scene. I want to take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see the carpool lane on the far right there thats on our far right but your left as you drive through is also slow. We did have a police response. We had, according to the chp, the dispatch center, homeland security, has showed up because this is at the bay bridge. We had some reports that this person set his vehicle on fire and they use the term 51 50. Police code talk for mentally unstable subject. Well find out kind of scary stuff to have someone do that at the toll plaza. All right. I want to show you the alternates on the maps. The san mateo bridge, 15, 20 minutes just across the bridge. Another 10 minutes to get to the bridge. Were talking about the dumbarton bridge. They are very crowded. At 8 50. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sal.  fog is back. Two of them merging. That will give a good drop, 10, 15 degrees near the coast. Only 3, 5 inland. Mostly sunny, a few high clouds. A lot more fog than we saw yesterday. The coast was clear yesterday. Thats not the case today. Not a strong breeze yet. Still 60s around. 62 concord. 62 livermore. 60 san jose. Were there. Yesterday there were 70s. Low 60s. Palo alto, menlo park, foster city. La honda made it to 53. Everyone is close. Look for a lot of low 80s for some on the peninsula. Coast, 50s and 60s. It will settle in, the pattern here, pretty quiet. Seasonal temperatures will subtle changes starting tomorrow and taking us into the weekend and early next week. It will be cooler, coast and bay. Still another day or two before some of those inland areas can get out of the 90s. These are pretty close actually some of these to near average this time of year. Livermore should be close to 87. 70 in, aboutly. Thats down 12 from yesterday. Some low to mid80s. K except santa clara valley. 70s south south San Francisco south San Francisco. Tomorrow should settle in cooler. Dont see much change. Maybe one jump up a day or two and then cooler. Summer begins on saturday. 8 51. A major trademark ruling for an nfl team with a controversial name. Why the battle for change is not close to being over. Police in San Francisco warning people about a rash of armed robberies. There were three in two hours early yesterday morning. They happened within a mile of each other with the first on union street and van ness avenue. Two men robbed the man at gunpoint. Police believe the same two men robbed a 22yearold man and a 17yearold girl at broadway and high. Police say the suspects then beat their victims for no reason. Ordered them to the ground, robbed them of their property and then violently kicked them and assaulted them as well. Now, police say the two suspects then assaulted and robbed a man at kerney and vallejo streets. The suspect is described as latino between 20 and 30 years old. They were driving a fourdoor sedan. There were three other armed robberies in San Francisco but they dont appear to be related to those three attacks we just told you about. The Washington Redskins plan to appeal the biggest move yet in the campaign to get the team to change its controversial name. Yesterday, the u. S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled the name and logo are disparaging to nativeamericans and the team should be stripped of its trademark protection. This ruling does not prevent the redskins from keeping their name or suing someone who tries to use it. These marks are hugely vallable valuable. Legal experts say the ruling sets the stamg for a long and stage for a long and likely bitter court fight. They point out the appeals process will likely take several years. Well, today is a very important date in American History and in particular africanAmerican History. 150 years ago today, Union General Gordon Granger won a battle that ended slavery in texas. Its called juneteenth. Its the Oldest National celebration of the end of slavery in the united states. Around the country, there are festivals and prayers and other ceremonies marking june teeent. A lot of june teenth. A lot of families make it a time for assessment as they plan the future. An important day day in our history. Very. Sal, you have an update on the breaking news regarding the bay bridge. You say the situation is under control. Someone set the pickup truck on fire. They got out there quickly and put the fire out for 20 minutes they had the person they had the fire on the truck there. They had get it out. Now the person is being evaluated for mental instability. The lanes are open and traffic is Getting Better. There is the truck thats on fire there at the toll plaza. This person allegedly set his own truck on fire right there at the toll plaza. All right. Lets move along and take a look at 880 still slow getting up to downtown looked. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sal. Fog is back. Cooler, coast and bay, 60s, 70s. Inland, 80s, low 90s. A quiet pattern starts tomorrow and takes us into the weekend. All right, steve. Thank you. Any time. Okay. Thats or report for this morning our report for this morning. Be sure to watch the news at noon. Well have more on the big decision today involving a santa rosa woman accused of assaulting a by she believes was bullying her daughter. Were always here for you at ktvu. Com as well as twitter and facebook. Thank you for joining us. 4th o. Save 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Plus, pay no interest for 36 months on tempurpedic and icomfort. Sleep trains 4th of july sale is on now. Your ticket to a better nights sleep. Hi, everybody, im beth troutman. If you like to watch great videos, keep it here, right this minute. Dude unleashes anger in the back of a cop car, but things get worse inside the police station. No respect at all. Who police say is in the right this time. 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