Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Mornings On 2 At 7am 20160505

We get some rapid develop. Speaking of, look at reno between truckee, south lake tahoe, thunderstorms from the Carson Valley. This is going to be very active today. Probably over the next three to five days. Be advised if you are going up to the mountains. There is going to be a lot going on. The same for shasta as well. Offshore is the low. It will continue to drift closer towards us. As it does, that provides the lift, the dynamics for a better opportunity for thunderstorms. Temps in the 50s. They will end up in the 60s. I think watch this afternoon. There it is. Its kind of drifting towards central california, but its close enough to us. Cloudy to mostly cloudy. A pew sun breaks. Showers later, late morning, late afternoon. We have a better opportunity for showers today. Sal, 7 01. You got busy south bay, bay bridge toll plaza . Lets start at the toll plaza, steve, because i wanted to show you the traffic is busy there. It is backed up as usual there at the toll plaza, but there are no unexpected delays. Thats what you really hate, that there are no unexpected delays. But there is some slow traffic there. Also looking at the commute here on 880, that hasnt really filled in just yet. But the traffic is going to be busy. We have a crash in the south bay northbound 101 near the brokaw road exit. 101 is already busy. We have had slow traffic on 880, 280 and 17. The normal morning slowdowns. Police activity in san jose is having a major impact on city streets there. A man is on top of a light rail train and he will not come down. Ktvus janine de la vega is there. Janine, is there a reason why police wont just go up there and escort him or forcibly take him down . Reporter yeah. Its basically, sal, for safety reasons. They are worried about somebody falling. But in the last 30 minutes sheriffs deputies put up a ladder up there hoping that he might climb down. But they ended up taking that ladder away. As you can see, he is just really not budging. He is there with a yellow blanket wrapped around him. He did tell deputies that he wants to screw up everyones morning, and he certainly is affecting the commute. First street is closed in both directions between sharko and tremble. The light rail trains cant get out of their yards. Sheriffs deputies say they are going to wait this out. They dont want to climb up on the train with them because they are worried about somebody getting injured. They say that he is despondent and agitated and he may be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Authorities tell us he is a white man in his 20s who is on probation on drugrelated offenses. This has been going on since 1 20 this morning. An empty train going back to the yard, the operator in there saw him standing on the tracks. The train stopped to avoid hitting him, and thats when the man climbed up on top of the train. A Crisis Negotiation Team has been trying to convince him to come down. Hes screaming and yelling. He is spitting at people. We asked him why he is up there. He says he wants to mess up everybodys commute. He is talking about military issues. We are trying to find out if he was ever in the military. Reporter the vta immediately powered down the electrical lines because the agency was worried about him getting electrocuted. Thats why half of the system is impact the. Anyone coming from East San Jose or Mountain View, those stations are impacted. The vta has sent buses to those stations who transport people. They understand its a highly unusual situation, but they are trying to deal with this as best as they can. Back out here to a live picture, he still has not moved and part of the Negotiation Team is still there trying to talk to him, hoping that sometime soon that he will get back down. I asked the vta, you know, if this goes on for a few more hours, is the plan in place still going to be a bus bridge for those two stations that are affected . Alan rock and Mountain View. They said, yes, they dont want to confuse commuters. They are going to continue doing what they can doing now because they cant get the other trains out of the yard. You know, instead we have seen buses come by to help the commuters who normally use those routes. Gasia. Janine, are you getting a sense that police might believe he has a weapon as well, or is he just causing this by the fact he is not moving . Reporter they say that they have not seen any weapons. They dont believe he has any weapons at all. Right now they are just saying we want to be as safe as possible. What if one of the deputies comes up there and there is some sort of struggle, somebody falls, hurts themself. They want to avoid doing that. They know its an inconvenience, you know, to people on the roads, but they are really just trying to be safe. Janine, we will keep checking in. Thank you. San jose police are stepping up to make sure Cinco De Mayo celebrations dont get out of hand. Police plan to have 30 extra officers patrolling downtown and the citys east side. The holiday had not yet started, but some people earlier this week cruised to the city carrying the mexican flag. Local Business Owners are concerned about a repeat of what happened if two years ago. A near riot broke out in downtown with visitors jumping on buses. Police made several arrests and shut down main street. People use Cinco De Mayo to do to harm others, you know. To come and just vandalize and fight against each other. And i dont understand. You know, Cinco De Mayo should be celebrated in mexico. Not here. Saw police are bringing in Police Officers from their metro and special operations divisions along with the gang suppression unit. And here is a phone number you might want to put in your phone now. Triplea is offering a tipsy tow to anyone so they wont drink and drive. The service is free. You dont have to be a triplea member. Triplea will tow your car within ten miles. The number to save call is 800 2224357. Time is now 7 07. Two brothers accused of killing their parents in san jose are due in court today. 22yearold that seed Ben Golam Robbie and his 17yearold brother have entered not guilty pleas to shooting and killing their parents last month. The bodies were found by relatives. They had been shot early times. Police say that words written on the wall at the crime scene matches the handwriting of the two brothers. They are facing two counts of murder. Looks like donald trump now has a clear path to the gop nomination as his last opponent dropped out of the race yesterday. John kasich made that announcement from his home state of ohio. He had only one win to his name, and with trumps huge win on indiana on tuesday he was essentially shut out. Trump said he would consider kasich Foreign Exchange Vice President and he has chosen ben carson to help him. He may name potential cabinet members before the Party Convention in july in hopes of getting more support from the republican establishment. I like the idea of doing some of this before we go into cleveland, yes. I could do that. I think it would be well received. Meanwhile, trumps Small Campaign team will have to play camp up to Hillary Clintons operation. It is eight times the size of his. And today Hillary Clinton continues her president ial run in Southern California and is scheduled to campaign at East Los Angeles college. Her husband bill also hitting the campaign trail, stumping for his wife. If you want to get america on the move again, you better elect hillary president. Thats my message. Thank you. Thank you very much. Former president addressed the crowd in l. A. s korea town yesterday touching on several issues, including criticizing donald trump for wanting to build walls. He did note there is no way to wall out social media where many terrorists, such as the Santa Barbara San Bernardino shooters. 7 09. Several questions remain about the tragic death of prince. Federal authorities are now investigating a mill valley doctor who was asked to treat prince for reported addiction to painkillers. Ktvus brian flores to talk about how the doctors son is being questioned. Reporter dr. Howard kornfeld is a well respected addiction and pain specialist in mill valley. He was hired on to treat the singer just a day before he died. But a busy scheduling conflict prevented the doctor from meeting prince the next day. An attorney for dr. Kornfeld says all parties believed it was a lifeordeath situation, so the doctor sent his son andrew to minnesota to deliver Pain Management pills that were to be administered by a local doctor in minnesota and convince the singer to come back to mill valley for treatment. By the time andrew got there, it was too late. Some reports indicate it was andrews voice you here on the 911 call. According to tmz, the issue revolves around whether or not it was legal for andrew to carry these drugs across state lines to a place where a doctor is not board certified. Andrew is not a doctor himself. Two, whether or not there is an issue of andrew getting immunity from prosecution if he or dr. Kornfeld were expected to be compensated or paid on the visit. It is my belief that the Good Samaritan 911 law providing immunity for people who make a 911 emergency call are to receive immunity for any medications, any controlled substances found on the scene will provide statutory immunity to andrew relating to the medications that were found in his backpack on the scene. Now, kornfelds Attorney Says no drugs prescribed by dr. Kornfeld were ever administered by andrew or the local doctor because it was too late. He says dr. Kornfeld felt it was a lifesaving mission to get prince the help he needed. Federal authorities are not commenting at this point, but authorities tell the star tribune up in that while this is criminal investigation it remains unclear whether any charges will be filed in terms of the actual cause of princes death. Thats to be determined pending toxicology reports. Thank you. Time is 7 11. An Antioch Police officer shot, three others injured. In minutes what we are learning about the driver who opened fire and crashed into several cars. This is day 15. A San Francisco Hunger Strike outside a Police Station in the mission. The latest on a protester who was hospitalized after fainting yesterday. Good morning. A commute is getting busier by the moment. This is 237 in san jose heading over towards the airport. Traffic is going to be slow as you head west. Well, already some misty light rain up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Highway 17 and thunderstorms in the sierra. Its getting closer for us, too. We will take a look at it. Welcome back to mornings on 2. The San Francisco Hunger Striker who fainted yesterday and was then hospitalized, well he is back at the camp in front of the mission Police Station. He fainted yesterday in his tent. He was taken to uc is f to get his blood tested. He says he and the other demonstrators will continue getting daily checkups. He is one of five people refuse to go eat for 15 days now demanding that police chief greg suhr resign. Yesterday protesters in support of the Hunger Strikers also interrupted the Police Commission meeting. This is what chief suhr had to say when he was asked about the Hunger Strikers. However long they want to exercise their First Amendment rights, we will do whatever we can to facilitate that until it becomes dangerous. That point we will work with dph and medical personnel to make sure everybodys safe. Chief suhr said he has no intention of stepping down. The Police Commission was talking about proposed changes to the departments use of force policy. They include changing guidelines on when and how Police Officers use force. The police chief also wants to give tasers to Police Officers. 7 16. The director of the Southern California Earthquake Center says the southern portion of the Sanna Andreas fault, quote, locked, loaded and ready to roll. Thomas jordan made the comments during the keynote speech at the National Earthquake conference in long beach yesterday. Jordan said pressure has been building on that southern part of the fault without being relieved for hundreds of years. He estimates a 7. 8 earthquake in the area would likely cause more than 1800 deaths and 50,000 injuries. Wow. All right. Time is 7 16. Sal, everybody behaving out there . Thats right. I would say, dave. I mean, for the most part its routine slow traffic out there. Let me put my glasses on. Wow, i can see now. All right. Lets see what we have now as we get out to highway 4. You will see some slowing, as is normally the case coming through the area of highway 4 coming up through the willow pass grade. We havent had any major problems through this area, but we have just had the normal morning slow down. At the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is moving along pretty well as you get up to the macarthur maze it slows down. 20minute delay. So again routine. I shouldnt say moving pretty well. This is slow traffic. At least there are no major crashes. I will say that northbound 101 at brokaw road, there was a crash there and traffic is backed up on 280. 280 slow approaching 17 and 58 is also slow. So its not a great commute in the south bay. We want to remind you the area of first and component, Police Activity continues there. First street is closed between trimble and sharkot. Lets go to steve. A slow grind on 17, sal. Light rain up there. We do have our system moving in. There are a few breaks in the clouds. Cloud to mostly cloudy. Around the Santa Cruz Mountains and there is a line forming east of gilroy and morgan hill in between 152 and 130 and up in the Sierra Nevada its going bonkers already. Nancy says a slow grind over highway 17 this morning. Showers and super foggy. Getting up to the summit. Thats only going to increase. Watching a line right trying to watch the line. Might be some popping up in eastern Contra Costa County. We are keeping a line right there ill get out of the way. Right there. In between 130, 152, gilroy, morgan hill. Thats the line. Thats the one i have been watching. I thought it would kick in about eight. Its a little early here. Thats all right. Look at the sierra. Thunder and lightning. Lightning and thunder is going crazy around reno, truckee. Most of this again on the lee side, but now moving up the spine of the Sierra Nevada and its going to be active today coming up from the Carson Valley area. Carson pass as well. We are waiting on a system to get things juiced up a little bit and its going to. 50s and 60s on the temps. Peninsula temps, boy i tell you, this is as close as i have seen. 54, 55, 56. Take your pick. 55 atherton. Woodside 56. Las altos hills 55. Stanfords 55. Belmonts 55. Everyones really close here. A little bit of a breeze. Gusting up to 25 at travis earlier. 39 truckee. They have had reports of rain and thunderstorms in the area there. And there is going to be some very active weather here for the next three to four days. Be advised there could be big time thunderstorms up there. Already popping up. But over the next few days, we have to wait a little bit here. It will get here. The line is forming. You get a little cold air aloft between 10,000 feet and 18,000 feet and this is a recipe for us in may to get thunderstorms in the mix and it will happen. The low is close enough. I still dont know if i buy completely into the totals. A third of an inch in isolated areas. In the sierra i have seen projections the next five, seven days to three and a half inches of rain in the sierra. Thats going to be a big system up there. Mostly cloudy. Showers develop. Thunderstorms later. They are forming announcement the cooling continues. 60s on a lot of these terms to near 70. Again i think the clouds and the rain will be the bigger story overall, and today, tomorrow probably all the way into saturday, but sunday, which is gasia day, mothers day, looks better. Its gasias moms day. Thank you, steve. Yesterday on mornings on 2 we kept telling you may the 4th be with you. It was Star Wars Day and it was celebrated across the country. Even the president and the first lady got in on the action. This video was posted to the white houses official twitter account last night with the caption with dance or dance not. There is no try. Aythe4th bewithyou. A twist on what yoda said to luke. They danced. Instead of hitting the gym, maybe try gardening. In minutes we will break down the Health Benefits of having a green thumb. He was convicted in the death of a baby many years ago, but now he has escaped from prison. A massive manhunt that has a Small Community on edge. A small town in new jersey is on edge as Police Search for an escaped prisoner days away from being released. Arthur buckle was convicted of killing his girlfriends ten monthold babe 20 years ago. He escaped from prison tuesday. Ten departments joined in the manhunt on wednesday and now the towns mayor is urging buckle to turn himself in. You are going to be apprehended. My suggestion is to surrender to law enforcement, surrender immediately. Make it easy for everybody, including yourself. Investigators believe he stole a truck after breaking out of prison. There is Surveillance Footage that shows him going into a cvs on wednesday morning. He was scheduled to be paroled on the 21st. 7 24. The tsa wants congress to pay for overtime during the Summer Travel season to help those airport screeners deal with overcrowded lines. Now, congressional committees are considering it. So far one senate panel approved moving money from one tsa account to another so new officers can be hired and also cover overtime during the summer rush. A House Committee says they will study the idea. The tsa wants more people to sign up for the pre checkin program. The recent traffic changes on Mission Street is hurting some busies bottom line. The traffic changes includes busonly lanes and left turn restrictions. Some Business Owners say its now taking much longer for their customers to find a place to park. They are urging the Transit Authority to install traffic changes. They say they should give the public time to settle in and see if the new design works. Well, some North Carolina lawmakers are doubling down on the antilbgt law after the Justice Department sent out letters saying the bathroom bill is violating federal Civil Rights Act protections. The Justice Department threatens to take away federal education funding. North carolinas governor and some republicans say the Obama Administration is going too far by stepping into this. The North Carolina law requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth. Well, Caitlyn Jenner is about to take it all off for the cover of sports illustrated. Us weekly reports the former olympic star and spokesperson for transgender rights is expected to do that shoot with just an American Flag and a gold medal. This is marking the 40th anniversary of jenner as an olympic gold medalist. Jenner won it at the 1976 games in montreal. This should be her second magazine cover since debuting as caitlyn. 80,000 people leaving everything mind because of a raging wildfire. Coming up, video showing an evacuees terrifying escape. An Antioch Police officer out of the hospital this morning after he was wounded during a wild shootout that happened last night. We will tell you about the suspected carjacker that police were chasing and the crash that happened at this intersection coming up. Good morning. We are looking at a commute where traffic is going to be busy as you are driving up to the highway 4 interchange with 242. We will tell you more about this and the rest of the commutes. Well, cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. Some light rain. Drizzle up in the Santa Cruz Mountains and thunderstorms big time already up in the sierra. More on that coming up. J . J . J7 welcome back to mornings on 2. This is the scene of a situation that has been going on for more than six hours now. The man there in the Yellow Jacket is on top of a vta light rail train and refusing to come down. He says he wants to disrupt the commute, and he certainly is. We have been checking in on janine de la vega. A number of officers you can see. Another vta employee surrounding that light rail train. First street is closed between charcot and trimble. I am gasia mikaelian. And good morning. I am dave clark. Lets check the weather now. Steve paulsons right over there with the forecast. Its beginning here. The showers are starting. Yeah, we are getting closer, guys. Looks like in napa county and Santa Clara County as well, there is already huge thunderstorms that have erupted mainly around reno, the nevada side. We are under cloudy skies right here. Here is the line forming right there. Take this up here. Looks like solano county, napa right there. It is beginning there. Its going to be a very active day. So i expect to keep an eye on that. That could go severe later on. There is a line east of morgan hill now. Highway 130, 152, and the Fremont Hills over the over the valley. Carson city, reno, up to tahoe city and truckee. There has been a lot of action already and its going to continue. This low will be with us for a couple of days. 50s, 80s on the temps. I think its a moot point on the temps. Continue to cool. Keep an eye on the sky. Could be quite active. A few sun breaks helps the development. Thunderstorms late morning, early afternoon. Already showers, light rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 60s on the temps. We do have some problems with the south bay commute. We have had a situation on first street at component where the traffic has been affected by a police situation. A man on top of a train that does not want to come down. Its been there for a while. First street is closed between trimble and charcot, and thats causing slow traffic in the area. This is a live picture. You see to the left a little bit that man wrapped in a blanket. He is wearing shorts and doesnt want to come down. And the police dont want to go up there because they say its unsafe to go up there. Someone may fall off that train. Janine de la vega is there. There are the negotiators. Janine de la vega is there. Our reporter. And she is keeping an eye on thecation. Lets go to eastshore freeway. Westbound 80 traffic is going to be busy as you drive from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. About a 36minute drive between those two points. At the bay bridge toll plaza you will see the traffic is going to be busy. Its about a 25minute delay. We have slow traffic on highway 4 this morning as is the usual case through pittsburg, part of antioch and bay point. And then 680 from concord to alamo not in good shape. An Antioch Police officer was wounded in pittsburg. Ktvu fox 2s alex savidge, have you been on this story since early this morning. Tell us what we know about the injured officer. Reporter yeah, dave, good morning to you. That Antioch Police officer was treated last night at the hospital and then was released. Certainly some good news there. He was shot, were told, by a suspected carjacker following a wild Police Pursuit that came to a crashing end here at this intersection where we are this morning. This is love ridge and leland roads in pittsburg. Now, the shootout happened after 6 00 last night and it began when antioch Police Officers tried to pull over a black bmw that had been reported stolen. The man behind the wheel did not pull over, led centers on a chase into the city of pittsburg. That man finally lost control and crashed into a number of other cars, and thats when investigators say the driver of that stolen car pulled a gun and fired at officers. Police returned fire, but they did not hit the man. Eventually, he surrendered on his own. We talk to a woman who ran for cover when she heard the gunshots. She didnt want to show her face. So i heard the car bang and then i went to go look because i noticed there was an accident and then i heard a pop sound and i thought, oh, maybe the car is on fire. You know, the glass is popping. Then i heard a pop, pop again. So i was like, no, thats gunshots. Reporter now, Authorities Say there were a total of seven cars involved in that crash here at this intersection. Four people had to be taken to the hospital to be treated for their injuries. That included the Antioch Police officer who again was struck during that shootout last night. He is expected to be okay. Treated at the hospital and then released last night. Now, i checked in this morning with a sergeant with the Antioch Police department. He told me there are no updates this morning on this investigation. No more information is being released about the officer who was wounded in the shootout last night. No more details on the man that police were chasing last night. The man who they say opened fire on police here at this intersection. But we should get some more information maybe later this morning. All right. Alex savidge in pittsburg. We will check back with you later. Time is 7 36. Antioch police also investigating a separate shooting where a worker at a mcdonalds was hurt. It happened wednesday morning just before 11 00 at the mcdonalds on mahogany way. A viewer posted this photo on facebook. A man shot from a parking lot and an employee near one of the windows was hit. His injuries are described as minor. Police dont think he was the intended target. That shooter described as man in his 20s. One person was hurt in a vallejo family lost its home in an overnight fire. Firefighters posted these pictures as well as video we will share in a minute on twitter. Crews were called to the home on carl avenue and mariposa street before 1 00 this morning. It took firefighters to hours to get the fire out. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. 7 37. A man from Los Altos Hills is accused of molesting a boy for almost eight years. He pled not guilty. Gregory helfrick was arraigned yesterday. His alleged victim is in his 20s but recently reported he was assaulted between the years 1993 and 2000. In the Santa Clara Sheriffs Office served a search warrant last week. They found pictures of child pornography. He faces 30 counts of sexual assault. Our victim says he was sexually assaulted between ages 5 and 12. After we contacted our suspect, the suspect admitted that he likes young boys. He finds them sexy and attractive. Now, the d. A. s office says the suspect has been working with kids since 2012 while volunteering at the Abundant Life Christian Fellowship Church in Mountain View. The d. A. s office says there are no other victims at this point. He is being held without bail. He will be back in court in june. Some students from moraga will be staging a walkout today. They are upset about what they say is instances of racism on campus. They are demanding more classes on race and lbgt issues. They plan to walk out at 9 00 this morning and they will protest until 5 00 tonight. Students and workers at uc berkeley will protest today over job cuts on campus. The university plans to eliminate 500 jobs over the next two years to help balance its budget. Some cuts would be through attrition. We dont know yet if layoffs will happen. The protest begins at noon. Its at the Valley Life Sciences building. Time is 7 38. Rent relief for thousands of People Living in san jose may be coming sooner than expected. The mercury news is reporting city council dropped a plan to freeze rents. Instead, they are going to have a rentcontrol law take effect sooner. It reduces maximum rent heights on rent controlled apartments from 8 to 5 . The paper reports there were concerns landlords may try to increase rental prices before that new law takes effect in the fall. The city council will now either pass an urgency ordinance or so the new rent hike cap takes affect right away, or a second option would be to imminent the law by the end of june. The San Jose Sharks are back on the ice again tonight hoping to bounce back from a game three loss to nashville. The sharks had an early lead in game three on tuesday, but the National Predators scored four straight goals and they won 4 1. The sharks still have a two games to one series lead. Now, after tonights game its back to san jose. Game five is at the sap center saturday. Somebody in the bay area may become rich if you buy a winning lottery ticket. The Powerball Jackpot is 415 million after no one matched the winning numbers last night. No one has won since march 2. 415million is great, but a far cry from the 1. 6 billion jackpot we had in january. That was the largest jackpot ever drawn in the world. Lets take a quick look at the winning numbers from last night. 30, 47, 57, 66, 69, and the powerball of 3. I did not win. Nor did i. Okay. Time is 7 40. Meantime, a Police Department in ohio decided to use facebook to ask people to stop trying to buy drugs from a man they have in custody. Ahead well show you a post that went viral and why the Department Says it all boils down to a ringtone. First we are learning more details about a major change in our states smoking laws. Next the move by the governor that is aimed at reducing teen smoking. Good morning. We are looking at the commute here on westbound 24 as you head up past the bart station. You are going to see slow traffic. So well tell you whats going on here. Its not the return of the mack. Its something else. Well, take a look at the computer here. If you out by livermore, tesla and vasco road, kaboom. Its on its way. You should know that area, gasia. 7 43. New this morning, a small glimmer of hope as emergency crews rescued a kenyan woman who had been trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building for six days. Here you see the woman being carried out on a stretcher as medics carry an oxygen tank at her side. While she was trapped they gave her oxygen, water and glucose through an iv. That Building Collapse killed more than 30 people. 70 others are still missing. Jewish leaders are observing holocaust day in israel. The president and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid wreaths in a ceremony at the National Holocaust Memorial Center . Jerusalem. The entire country came to a standstill at the time. All across the country traffic stopped. People observed two minutes of silence. Six million jews were killed in the holocaust during world war ii. The annual Remembrance Day is held one week before the countrys independence day, which symbolizes the state of israel from the ashes of the holocaust. Dramatic video to show you of people in canada fleeing a raging wildfire. 80,000 people have evacuated the town of fort mcmurray. The southern route out of the town was blocked by the flames, so there was a huge traffic jam on the one road heading north. You can see how close those flames are, the sparks flying around those cars. And the wildfire spread overnight. It has burned at least 16,000 homes and other buildings so far. And high winds are making it really hard to fight those flames. Three more communities have been ordered to evacuate. So far there is no word of injuries. 7 45. In our health check california governor jerry brown signed legislation that raises the legal age of moaking in california from 18 to 21. The law forbids tobacco use including smoking, dipping, chewing and vaping for anyone under the age of 21. Another bill signed by the governor restricts the use of e cigarettes in public places. Both laws take effect june 9. The Tobacco Industry opposing the restrictions. You dont have to go to the gym to help your body and mind. It may be as easy as going out into the backyard. Pack cook to talk about the Health Benefits of gardening. I love this. I know you post pictures of your roses. They say 45 minutes of gardening can have the same Health Benefits as 30 minutes of aerobic exercise according to the centers for disease and prevention. The agency says gardening is a moderate cardiovascular exercise similar to walking or biking. Cardiologists agree. It can keep your body and mind in shape. There is something about Earth Energy Field that calls down. This is kind of newage science, but its real science. Number two, you know, there is fresh air. Its just good. Sunshine. We know sunshine makes vitamin d. There are a list of benefits when you are out in the backyard working. He says when you are outside, chances are you dont have your cell phone with you or other technology so you are disconnected and that can reduce stress. The study found that those who regularly spend an hour a day gardening cut the risk of heart attack or stroke by more than 25 . Wow. Really . Thats significant. It is. I can relate. I just had some people come help me clear a bunch of weeds because of all the rain we had. I had a ton of weeds. And i walked outside my yard is all clean of weeds and i felt good. I was happy. I love seeing your rose pictures. Its so incredibly beautiful. I have been blessed with natural good stuff. I am not good. They are good. Okay. The roses are blooming despite you . Thats the idea. I know a loft schools, Elementary Schools have gardens these days. Ours included. The kids will eat stuff from the garden that they wont eat at the dinner table. So true. Thats great. I love the school gardens. Thank you, pam. Thats a great story. Time is 7 47. Lets go back to sal. Get you to where you need to go this morning. Hows itk looking . Its looking good. Just like i thought. I am into gardening now and i thought are you . Thats what older guys do. Wait a minute, sal. [ laughter ] it happened. It happened. I used to watch my grandfather garden. I used to think how boring. Not at all. Good morning, everybody. Lets take a look at the commute. How things change as your life goes on. Highway 24 westbound. In case you havent heard me say it before, not just me, but a bunch of other people have noticed that 24 traffic in lafayette is slow until you bet to the bart station platform. After that it slows approaching lorinda. Just people looking at the platform. People like to do that. I like do that. I wont lie. But just try to keep going. But traffic is not affected by any accidents. This is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. It is backed up all the way out to the macarthur maze. No major problems. There is our spider. Been active lately. Right. Boris the spider. Thats what we call him. He has his own twitter account. Moving along to some of the lines i have painted on this map for you. Highway 4 is slow. We had a slew of minor crashes on 680 south right through the walnut creek interchange than hasnt beenthal great this morning. We are also looking at the south bay. Our problem continues on first and component. First street is closed between trimble and charcot because of Police Activity. The trains are affected. The vta trains. 101 is also affected by an earlier crash northbound. Give yourself extra time if this is your area of commute. 7 49. Lets go to steve now. Sal, we have rain in the area. Thunderstorm on 580 in livermore. So that has already popped up about five, six reports of pretty good thunder right over we used to call it lost possibilities, which it is not. You think los pacides for all it gave me. Yes. Item there on vasco, tesla, patterson pass, boom. I mean, we have had a couple of reports right over 580 heading towards sandra mobe. You see the line thats formed. Its on its way and it started very, very early. You can see some of that activitys popped up a little bit in the up in the valley and back towards st. Helena and napa county. The main focus so far looks to be along a line from livermore east of morgan hill and also gilroy. This is a sign of things to come and look at the sierra. Kaboom. I mean, just blowing up, as we say, from northern sierra along the spine to truckee, virginia city, carson city. Carson pass, this will be with them today, tomorrow, and maybe even saturday. Ours are just getting fired up right now. 50s and 60s on the temps. Now, this is more inland on the thundershower activity. San martin. 01 on highway 17 at the summit. Very foggy. Misty, drizzly and 57. 39 truckee. Rain. Up in the sierra heavy amounts of rain. The low is close enough where its providing the lift or instability in the atmosphere. It has two speeds. Slow and stop. Its not going to move very far until maybe sunday. Mostly cloudy. Showers already developing. Thunderstorms popping up early year. More likely this afternoon there will be a line of those forming and moving south to north or even popping up northward. And i think some of these will produce some small hail. So today, tomorrow, maybe even saturday. For us about as good as it gets, you know. Usually we dont get things like this. Yeah. A lot of people on facebook sending me pictures out their back window. A lot of dark foreboding clouds. Its going to be that kind of day. Okay. Steve, thank you. 7 52. Limited leg room. Sitting in that middle seat. Its enough to make anyone cringe. Could it be the source of rage . Just ahead what a new Study Suggests about Airline Travel and its effect on your emotion. First, the performance enhancing drug that ended Lance Armstrongs cycling career may be helping babies. How that same drug seems to prevent brain damage. Before earning enough cash back from bank of america to buy a new gym bag. Before earning 1 cash back everywhere, every time and 2 back at the grocery store. Even before he got 3 back on gas. Kenny used his bankamericard cash rewards credit card to join the wednesday night league. Because he loves to play hoops. Not jump through them. Thats the excitement of rewarding connections. Apply online or at a bank of america near you. Welcome back to mornings on 2. 7 55. Police in san leandro searching for is theyearold Twin Brothers wanted in connection with a spring of bbgun shootings. Since last year the windows of more than 125 cars have been shot out. Several people have been hit. Police say they had a break in the case on april 14th. Someone was shot as they walked on washington avenue in san leandro. That person saw the Twin Brothers in a car with a woman and wrote down a partial license plate number. That led police to the woman, who was taken into custody. We know Violent Crimes have been mimicking video games. There have been social Media Contests for doing things like a scavenger hunt. Yesterday detectives served a search warrant at the home of the Twin Brothers and say evidence including a bbgun was recovered. The twins were supposed to surrender, but they never showed up. Police say they could face charges of assault with a Deadly Weapon and felony vandalism. Former Cleveland Browns Quarterback Johnny Manziel is due to make his First Court Appearance today. The 23yearold was indicted for Domestic Violence by a grand jury in dallas, texas last month. This after his ex girlfriend accused him of hitting her and threatening to kill her. The charge manziel is facing carries a penalty of one year in jail and a 4,000 fine. Ucsf hospital announced a medical broke through that could help babes. Its a drug called erythopoietin, or epo. It was approved for treating anemia decades ago. Now its being injected into very sick oxygen deprived newborn babies. Adding epo to the approach, could become widespread once more research is done with more babies. This is a deep part of the brain thats important for controlling motor skills. I think its urgent right now for us to do the big study as quickly as possible so we can get the answer for all the moms out there who will be going through this. Now, epo was one of the performance enhancing drugs that led to cyclist l. A. Being banned from cycling. It boosted his red blood cells taking oxygen to his muscle. The takata airbag recall is effecting people here in the bay area. We will tell you about the latest electric automaker thats involved. An unusual situation in san jose. A man on top of a vta light rail train is refusing to come down. It is having a big impact on vta riders. We will have the latest coming up. Good morning. We are looking at a commute that is still pretty busy as you drive in the bay area. We will tell you more about what you can expect at the toll plaza. Well, lightning, thunder, hail and now the sun is out. Right over livermore. We will show you that coming up. Hey i think the internet just went down. Huh, why dont you give it a sec, itll come back. Something just happened in the world and we have no idea what it was. Get high Speed Internet from at t with 99. 9 reliability for just 30 a month. Keep calm, your internets on. This is ktvu mornings on 2. 8 00. We continue to following a developing story out of the south bay. Vta riders are frustrated because this man has been on top of a train since about 1 20 this morning. That is forcing the stoppage of vta service. While there are bus bridges in place, dave, it is certainly not a normal commute. These are live pictures. For several hours he has been out there. Will not come down. We are going to check in with sal and ktvus janine de la vega, who has been out there since early this morning, in a couple of minutes to see how the traffic and the morning commute is affected. It is may 5th, 2016. I am dave clark. I am gasia mikaelian. We are also talking about major changes to weather that we are just beginning to see. I would agree with that. You know, not even 8 01 now. Already a thunderstorm in livermore. Hail reports as well. Gasia, dave, there are enough sun breaks. Thats going to help. The key is the low is close enough now. Thats pumping in some, well, a little bit of lift. Also some colder air aloft. Thats helping generate this thunderstorm activity. There is the line that just went through. Heading towards black hawk, Mother Nature will water your lawns. Now heading over towards the east bay in black hawk and reports of lightning, thunder, hail, and now its sunny. Couple of reports of that. Thats what you get with these patterns. Look at the line forming. Its ukiah now back right along napa county towards solano, contra costa and santa clara. Nothing too bad yet. Watch this. I think there will be Severe Weather around mendocino county, ukiah and back into lake county later on. This looks to be a prime time to me. I have seen projections that look ominous later on. This cell is crossing over to the east bay. If you are on the east side of 680 you can probably see it. Thunderstorm activity started much earlier, even in the sierra. It is going to be bigtime events up there for the next couple of days. There is going to be heavy rain. A lot of Severe Weather watches being posted out there. Cloudy, mostly cloudy skies. 50s and 60s. The sun breaks will help in this kind of a pattern for sure. That provides lift to the atmosphere. There is the low and its not going anywhere any time soon. Between now and id say saturday a possibility of showers. No doubt thunderstorms already cooking up here and the cooling continues. 60s on the temps. Sal, i thought we would make it through the morning commute. But for some they might get a little rain. Thats right. That means the commute is going to slow down. Thank you, steve. We have an unsual situation and weather may affect this, too. Traffic is impacted because a man is on top of a vta light rail bus. Janine, any change in that situation . Reporter well, in the last few minutes the man who is on top of the vta light rail train, he stood up. We dont know what that means, if he plans on, you know, maybe coming down any time soon. There was a Crisis Intervention Team here trying to negotiate with him. They left for a short while to try to come up with another game plan here. They just returned. But they dont have their cherry picker up and nobody is talking to him at this point. So police and sheriffs deputies are hunkered down. There is no time estimate on when first street and component will open back up. But this is also affecting vta trains. No trains can leave because their train yard is just south of here. Deputies say the man is despondent. He is highly agitated. He is in his 20s. He may be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. We are told he has been spitting at deputies and have told them that he wants to mess everyones commute. This started at 1 20 this morning. An empty train was heading back to the yard for the night, but operator stopped because the bans standing in the tracks. He then climbed up on top of the train and he has been there ever since. Nearly seven hours. The crisis negotiators have been here all morning. They have been trying to convince him to come down. We are going to wait him out. We dont want a deputy to go up there and injure the deputy. We dont want him to fall off. So we are just going to be out here and be patient. We are going to wait him out. Reporter Authorities Say it doesnt appear that he has any weapons on him. They just want him to come down safely. The vta did power down the lines because they were afraid he was going to be electrocuted. So half of the vtas light rail system is affected. Anyone coming from the alum rock station in East San Jose or Mountain View is impacted. So the vta has set up a bus bridge for those commuters. They are going to continue to do that. They are just going to let the Sheriffs Department handle this. Youre looking at live pictures again just standing on top of the train. Underneath him it looks like there is a team of those crisis intervention negotiators possibly coming up with some sort of other plan of action because its been, as i mentioned, nearly seven hours. We are not sure how long they are really going to continue this. But as you heard, right now they are saying they are just going to wait it out. Back to you. All right. Janine de la vega reporting live this san jose. Just want to mention that that area obviously first street carries a lot of traffic. I dont have to tell you that if thats your area. Right now it is closed as she mentioned between charcot and trimble. Other commutes right now the bay bridge backed up for a 25 minute delay get nothing San Francisco. Its been rather robust, but we havent had any major problems here. We are also looking at the Golden Gate Bridge and that traffic is easy coming through. If we can go to the maps, i want to show you something here. 101 has been heavy getting into Mountain View. We had an accident at bay shore. An accident in Mountain View. That commute is slow especially northbound into Mountain View and palo alto. Two brothers were accused of killing their parents are due in court today. 22hasib rabbby and his brother pled not guilty. Relatives found the bodies inside the family home. Police say the writing on the wall at the crime scene matches the handwriting of the two brothers. Both sons face two counts of murder. Several questions remain about the death of pop star icon prince. Yeah. Authorities are investigating a mill valley doctor who was asked to treat prince for reports of addiction to painkillers. Brian flores with us here to talk about how the doctors son is being questioned. Dr. Howard kornfeld is a well respected addiction and pain specialist in mill valley. He was hired by princes representatives to treat the singer a day before he died. A busy scheduling conflict prevented the doctor from meeting the prince the next day. An attorney for dr. Kornfeld says all parties believed it was a lifeordeath situation, so the doctor sent his son andrew to minnesota to deliver Pain Management pills that were to be administered by a local doctor in minnesota and also convince the singer to coming back to mill valley for treatment. By the time andrew got there it was too late. Some reports indicate it was andrews voice you here on the 9 11 call. According to tmz the issue is whether it was legal for andrew to carry these pills across state lines. Two, weather there is an issue of andrew getting immunity from prosecution if he or dr. Kornfeld were expected to compensated or paid on the visit. It is my belief that the Good Samaritan 911 law providing immunity for people who make a 911 emergency call are to receive immunity for any medications, any controlled substances found on the scene will provide statutory immunity to andrew relating to the medications that were found in his backpack on the scene. Now, kornfelds Attorney Says no drugs prescribed by dr. Kornfeld were ever administered by andrew or a local doctor because it was too late. He says dr. Kornfeld felt it was a lifesaving mission to get to brings to get the help he needed. Federal authorities are not commenting at this point, but authorities do tell the star Tribune Newspaper in minnesota while this is a criminal investigation, it remains unclear whether any charges will be filed. The cause of death is still to be determined. Brian, thank you. Time is 8 09. Its looking like donald trump now has a clear path to the republican president ial nomination. His last opponent dropped out yesterday. John kasich dropped out in his home state of ohio. Now, he only had one primary win, and after trumps big win in indiana on tuesday basically he was shut out. Now, trump says he would consider kasich for Vice President. He has already asked ben carson to help him search for a running mate. And he may name possible cabinet members before the Party Convention in july hoping to get more support from the republican establishment. I like the idea of doing some of this before we go into cleveland, yes. I could do that. I think it would be well received. In the meantime, Donald Trumps Small Campaign team will have to play catchup to Hillary Clintons campaign operation. Her operation is eight times the size of his operation. Today Hillary Clinton continues her president ial run in Southern California and is scheduled to campaign this afternoon at a los angeles college. Her husband is stumping for his wife. If you want to get america on the move, you better elect hillary president. Thats may message. Thank you very much. The former president addressed the crowd in l. A. s korea town yesterday and touched on issues including criticizing donald trump for wanting to build walls. He noted there was no way to wall out social media where many terrorists like the San Bernardino shooters become radicalized. Tomorrow Hillary Clinton will speak at Oaklands School and attend two fundraisers in San Francisco. Donald trump says the only thing hillary has going for her is the woman card. Mr. Trump accused me of playing the, quote, woman card. Well, if fighting for womens healthcare and paid family leave and equal a pay is playing its woman card, then deal me in in response to all this, a student in idea got an idea to make women cards. You see Hillary Clinton is the ace. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is the queen. It will feature 13 winner. The artist wants to honor the achievements women in the country have made. She hasnt decided who the joker will be. A Police Officer recovering. What we are finding out about a driver who fire and crashed into several cars. Plus, a first for Caitlyn Jenner. What the former olympian plans to do on the cover of sports illustrated. To the women who know what real values are, you inspire us to bring you real value every day. Time is 8 15. Some North Carolina lawmakers are doubling down on that anti debris law. It says the bathroom bill violates federal Civil Rights Acts. The department doesnt want state officials to enforce that law. They threaten to take away federal education funding. But North Carolinas governor and some republicans say the Obama Administration has gone too far by stepping in. Caitlyn ginner will soon take it all off for the cover the sports illustrated. The former olympian and spokesperson for transgender rights is expected to do that shoot with just an American Flag and a gold medal. Now, this is marking the 40th anniversary of jenner as an olympic gold medalist. Jenner won it at the 1976 summer games in montreal. This would be her second magazine cover since she debuted as caitlyn. Back to a developing story we have had all morning. A big commuter mess in the south bay because someone is on top of a vta train and refuses to come down. He got up there at about 1 20 this morning. Here we are at the heart of the morning commute and many people are unhappy, including michael matthews. He tweeted, this is kind of ridiculous that one person can take down so much transit. I am probably going to have to walk two miles. I know vta has set up a bus bridge. Boy, sal, that one tweet really speaks to the frustration im sure many are feeling. I have had a variety of tweets of people just wondering why they just cant go up there and forcibly take him down. Janine answered that question. But the tweets keep coming. So, you know, well see what happens. But this is a situation now, in case you are just joining us, on north first street near component. There is this man who is on top of a vta train from 1 30 this morning he has been up there. On the right negotiators are trying to get him to come down. The police or the sheriff doesnt want to get up there and endanger their officers by trying to get this man off. Meanwhile, the trains are not moving through and the traffic on first street is either between trimble and charcot and its causing a very big traffic jam. We dont see it because no one is getting through. Around the area there are detours and people on the freeway and a lot of inconvenience here because of this incident. Lets take a look at the commute in the south bay. 101 has been heavy and slow into Mountain View because of earlier issues. A couple of minor incidents northbound 280 we had an accident near downtown san jose and traffic is backed up to 680. The south bay commute in general isnt great. When you get out to the bay bridge toll plaza, that is backed up for a 25 to 30minute delay getting into the city. And if you are driving on the lower deck of the bay bridge, there are no problems. Its 8 18 now. Steve, some wet weather is coming through . It looks like its right over black hawk right now. Parts of the east bay. East parts of san ramon, also danville and mount diablo heading to clayton and concord. Just went over livermore, 580, and they had lightning, thunder, downpours, hail. Now its gone. Although nothing in pleasanton and nothing along the Altamont Pass either. Thats the nature of these systems here, these cells as they pop up. Look at that. That is big time right there. Right over mount diablo, black hawk and clayton and concord in the next, oh, 20 minutes. I bet thats producing hail. I bet there is some hail in there. Thats the way it looks to me. I would yes, i think so. I think we just had that on there. So the lines will continue to form here and you can see there is also another line stretching parts of napa county heading up northern Sonoma County. You got to watch how these pop right there. From santa rosa, healdsburg, cloverdale, big time boomers up here around cloverdale to ukiah and lake county later. The Sierra Nevada has been in the thunderstorm show all morning long. Look at that. I mean, it is just going crazy up there. Its going to be very heavy rain, hail, also, you know, looks like this will continue most of the day. So be advised if you are heading up there. Our low is now close enough where its going to be a complete broad brush here. 50s an 60s on the temps. You might get mostly cloudy then your neighbor said, oh my gosh, its pouring here. The sierra is going to have heavy rain and lots of thunderstorm activity. We will have scattered showers and some thunderstorms. The low hangs around until saturday night. I think friday evening some of this moisture will come wrapping back around. We are going to see some rain friday afternoon and evening. Today cloudy, mostly cloudy, thunderstorms in the process forming. So 60s on the temps. Do we got a live shot of mount mount diablo . Yes. I think there is hail in that cell. There was some in livermore. Its getting a little lift there from mount delab owe mount diablo. A Police Department in ohio turned to facebook to ask customers of an alleged drug dealer stop interrupting their investigation by calling and texting for drugs. Now, police in alliance, ohio, got the suspects permission to go through his phone, but said the sheer volume of calls coming in was a problem. So they posted their request on facebook right here saying, you keep calling and texting, and its really annoying. They also pointed out his ringtone was awful, but they didnt say specifically what it was. Time is 8 20. Get ready for the big one. Thats a warning from earthquake experts. Ahead well hear live from a usgs scientist about the warning about the San Andreas Fault. And next in your money business, how you can experience your favorite concerts without ever leaving the house. On his legendary quest, jack created a breakfast worth waking up for. The triple cheese and hash brown breakfast burrito. With provolone, cheddar, pepperjack, and a crispy hash brown. Then he announced it to the world in the most legendary way. Ahhem. Triple cheeeeeese the triple cheese and hash brown breakfast burrito. Hurry in before its gone. 2. Time is 2. Time is welcome back. A cal company is taking jobs with it. A popular car maker a now on the takata list of defective airbags. Pam cook with this mornings money business. Stocks to watch, too. Good earnings reports from merck and time, inc. And tesla. Seaworld down a little bit. Of course, they have been fighting the controversy over their orca whales. The killer whales. But we want to check in on the numbers in general. Pretty good day across the board. Looking at the dow, this is the opening bell. Just about two hours ago the dow, the nasdaq and the s p 500 have been up most of the morning about a half of a percent or so each there. But we were talking about bay area based jamba juice. They are relocating the headquarters to texas. They are moving to frisco, texas by the end of the year. Its expected to bring 100 corporate jobs to north texas, but some of the employees from emeryville will be relocated. The companys lease is set to expire at the end of the year in emeryville. The ceo of jamba juice says it will better position the company to extend its brand and continue to support its Franchise Partners for the long term. As we have been reporting, takata is adding more cars to its airbag recall, and now tesla is on the list. The japanese auto supplier recalled another 35 to 40 million airbag inflaters just yesterday. This raises the total number of vehicles recalled to nearly 70 million. The airbags can explode and send metal pieces into the car, even in minor collisions they have been linked tore than 100 more than 100 injuries and 11 deaths. Tesla added this morning. Apples attempt to win your ears for streaming music did not go the way it wanted. Now it has a new plan. Bloomberg reports the Company Wants to make sweeping changes to its service. They include adding more online radio stations and combining its download and streaming business. Apple music launched last year to compete with pandora, spotify and the other streaming services. Its reported that apple will make the official announcement about the changes next month at its annual event in San Francisco. Live nation wants to bring your favorite bands to you. The concert promoters are teaming up with the Virtual Reality pros next vr to bring live concerts to their headsets. Fans can hang out virtually on stage or backstage during the show. The shows, which have yet to be announced, can be viewed by downloading the next vr app. It will be free to start and then later on most likely will go to a payperview fee service. The tsa wants congress to pay for overtime during the Summer Travel season to help airport screeners deal with overcrowded lines. Congressional committees are considering it. So far a senate panel approved moving money from one tsa account to another so new officers can be hired and cover the overtime during the summer rush. A house panel says they will study the proposal. The tsa also wants more people to sign up for the Precheck Program to help lines move faster. They say be prepared for long lines this summer. And passing by those first class passengers while boarding a flight, it may lead to air rage. Researchers at the university of toronto and Hartford Business School found that negative and antisocial behavior happens more frequently on flights with first class sections. The Study Suggests separating the seating creates a Class Division between the have and have nots makes some people feel disadvantaged. A perfect storm for air rage. So kind of interesting. Oh, yeah. I took a recent vacation. My daughters were walking through first class. How come they have got big seats. Its interesting. I know people get cranky if you find yourself late and you have to sit in the middle seat, right . Where you sit creates changes your mood. I get it, pam. Pam, thank you. Time is 8 28. A fire overnight in vallejo injured a child. Ahead what may have caused that fire and what we know about the childs injuries. Plus, an Antioch Police officer recovering after being shot last night by a suspected carjacker. We will tell you what we are learning about the police chase that led to a child shootout at this busy intersection. Hey i think the internet just went down. Huh, why dont you give it a sec, itll come back. Something just happened in the world and we have no idea what it was. Get high Speed Internet from at t with 99. 9 reliability for just 30 a month. Keep calm, your internets on. We are following developing news out of the south bay. You can see the man on top of that vta light trail rain for seven plus hours now. At this point he is lying down. What you see there are two people on the side negotiators trying to talk him off of that train. As a result, half of the vta system and san jose and Mountain View has been at a standstill. Its a mess. This has been going on for hours. We are going to check in with sal in a moment on what vta is doing trying to help pretty frustrated commuters. First we go to your weather because if you are not wearing a jacket now, you will need one by this afternoon. Oh, well, i tell you, this is a hit and miss. There is one right over mount diablo right now. Black hawk and parts of the east bay heading towards, id say, in between concord and walnut creek. This will be one much many. Right there. Its right snack dab over i am getting reports of thunder marsh creek road, clayton. So right there. I mean, its it should be coming over the crest if you are on the concord side as it comes up from the south and should spill right over in between, id say, certainly possible right there. I would think there is hail in the mix there. Looks like there was. There was some that came over livermore. That did produce some hail. Brief hail. Also lightning, thunder and downpours. The line is already forming. Can you see it right there stretching northward from napa county up to northern Sonoma County into lake county and mendocino county. This area will fire up i think big time here later this afternoon. Its already showing signs of that now. Speaking of firing up, the sierra is going bonkers. There is going to be numerous cells today coming up and over from the carson pass and up along the spine of the sierra. For us its going to be a day of cloud cover and cloudy, mostly cloudy, and i think we have this kind of a pattern all the way into saturday. Dont be surprised if tomorrow the low is here. Its not moving very fast at all. Mostly cloudy. Showers have already developed. Thunderstorms have popped up. There will be more this afternoon. The cooling continues. A few sun breaks. That will only help the thunderstorm development. 8 32. Its been a tough morning for vta down there, sal. Yeah. You know, as a matter of fact, we do have the situation continuing in san jose near first and component. First street continues to be closed between trimble and charcot. You see sheriffs negotiators are speaking to a man who is now lying down on top of a train. Meanwhile, vta has pushed a couple of trains nearby. They have pushed them through just to get them out of the yard. The yard is nearby. But this is severely impacting vta service and they have a bus bridge set up. A lot of people have been inconvenienced by the trains not running and also by north first street here in a very busy area being shut down. Again the situation continues. Sheriff is on the scene, and so is our reporter janine de la vega. Lets move along and take a look at 880 northbound. Traffic slow past the coliseum. When you get up to the toll plaza, that is backed up for a 25minute delay. There is nothing unusual on the bridge, but it is a grind getting into the city. 8 33. Back to the desk. Four people, including an Antioch Police officer, they are recovering from last nights wild incident that involved a police chase, a multicar crash, and a shoot out. Now, the chase began in antioch. It ended in pittsburg. Alex savidge is live in pittsburg as investigators try to sort out what happened here. Reporter yeah. It was a wild situation. This was a Police Pursuit that started last night next door in the city of antioch and it made its way here to pittsburg. Ultimately, it ended with a multicar crash right here at this busy intersection of love ridge road and leland road. And the man officers were chasing jumped out of what authorities describe as a stolen car and opened fire on police here. As you can well imagine, there were quite a few people around at the hour this happened and witnesses were ducking for cover as bullets were flying. Now, in the end one officer with the Antioch Police department was hit by the gunfire. His wound was not life threatening. He was treated and released from the hospital last night. Now, this played out just after 6 00 last night and if began when Antioch Police tried to pull over a black bmw that had been reported stolen. Now, the man behind the wheel then led officers on a chase into the city of pittsburg. Finally losing control and crashing into a number of other cars, and thats when investigators say the driver of that car pulled a gun and fired on officers. Police returned fire. However, they did not hit the driver of the car and that man eventually surrendered. We talked with one woman who witnessed this shooting and did not want show her face. I was ducking for my life because i heard shots. Then i was telling people to like go. Like everybodys on the i am like go, everybody go. Reporter now, Authorities Say there were a total of seven cars involved in the big crash here at this intersection and four people were hurt and had to be taken to the hospital. That includes the Antioch Police officer who again was struck during this shootout last night. But the good news is that officer we understand is going to be okay. He was treated at the hospital at john deere Medical Center in walnut creek and was released last night, expected to fully recover. I touched base this morning with the Antioch Police department, just looking for some background here, some more details on both the officer that was hurt last night in the shootout and also the man who authorities were chasing and who they say opened fire on police and Antioch Police could possibly give out some more information on what led up to this police chase and shootout at some point later on this morning. Back to you guys. Alex savidge in pittsburg. Thank you. Time is now 8 36. Police in antioch also investigating a separate shooting where a worker at a Mcdonalds Restaurant was hurt. It happened yesterday morning just before 11 00 at the mcdonalds on mahogany way. A ktvu viewer posted this on facebook. Police say the gunman fired shots from the mcdonalds parking lot and a worker who was near one of the windows was hit. But his injuries are described as minor. Police dont think he was the intended target. The shooter described as being in his 20s may have gotten away in a white chevy pickup truck. New this morning a child was hurt in a vallejo family home in an overnight fire. Firefighters posted pictures as well as video to their twitter account. Crews were called to the home on carl avenue in mariposa street just before 1 a. M. It took fires crews two thursday get the fire out. The child suffered minor burns. A man accused of molesting a boy for almost eight years last pled not guilty. He was arraigned yesterday in palo alto. His alleged victim is now in his 20s, but recently reported he was assaulted between 1993 and 2000. Last week the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office served a search warrant at hell fricks roam and say they found child pornography. He faces 30 different counts of sexual assault. The victim says he was sexually assaulted from ages five and 12. The suspect admitted that he likes young boys. He finds them sexy, attractive. The d. A. s office says the suspect has been working with kids since 2012 while volunteering at the abundant Life Christian Church Fellowship in Mountain View. The d. A. s office says there are no other victims at this point. Helfrick will be back in court in june. A dramatic number of sexual assaults reported by colleges. The number reported on college and University Campuses more than doubled to 5,000 between 2001 and 2013 according to a new report by the National Center for education statistics. The white house recently launched a campaign led by Vice President joe biden and featuring lady gaga called its on us to raise awareness about the issue. Its not clear whether there are actually more sexual assaults happening or whether victims are now more willing to report them. Time is 8 38. Uc Berkeley Police released a sketch of a man who they say shot and killed a man on mothers day three years ago. There is also a 10,000 reward offered in the case. Now, the victim was 21yearold Alberto Santana silva of fremont. Investigators say he tried to break up a fight among people he did not know along grizzly peak boulevard. Someone involved in the fight came back 20 minutes later and shot Santana Silva while he was sitting in his car. His family is hoping that Police Sketch and the reward will bring them closure. You have your days when you are okay, but any little thing reminds you of them when you want to call. Call that person. You know that they are no longer there. It just hurts. Especially to see my mom break down every day. She still cries for him. Now, uc Berkeley Police put that sketch together shortly after the killing. They didnt release it earlier because they were worried it may jeb dies the investigation. Students and workers at uc berkeley wills protest today over job cuts at the campus. The university plans to eliminate 500 jobs over the next two years to to balance. Budget. Some of the cuts will come through attrition. Last month the University Said it is in the process of laying off about 60 workers right now. The protests will start at noontime at the Valley Life Sciences building. The San Francisco Hunger Striker who fainted yesterday and was hospitalized is back at the camp in front of the mission Police Station. He said he fainted yesterday in his tent and was taken to ucsf to get his blood tested. He is back at the camp side and says they will continue getting daily checkups. He is one of five people refusing food for 15 days now demanding the police chief to step down. Yesterday protesters in support of the Hunger Strike interrupted the Police Commission meeting. This is what chief suhr had to say when he was asked about the Hunger Strikers. However long he want to exercise their First Amendment rights, we will do whatever we can to facilitate that until it becomes dangerous. And then at that point we will work with dph and medical personnel to make sure everybodys safe. Chief suhr also says he has no intention of stepping down. The commission was discussing proposed changes to the departments use of force policies. That includes changing guidelines on when and how officers should use force. The chief also wants to give tasers to Police Officers. A court case out of pennsylvania could bring more lawsuits against people who text drivers who are involved in car accidents. The latest case stems from an incident where a driver hit and killed a motorcyclist. The driver was texting with two people something sued for aiding and abetting a distracted driver. The judge suggested those sending the texts knew they were doing it while the person was driving and that makes them liable. The two people who sent the text argue there is to law making it their responsibility to affect the actions of the driver. 8 42. Breaking news. This is coming in from houston, texas. Look at the pictures. Firefighters are battling a fouralarm fire. These are live pictures. We see an awful lot of black smoke down there at the Center Middle of the screen, you can see a lot of orange flames going up as well. At this point we can see water being put on the flames from a number of sources, and now as were getting sort of a wider look at the picture it does seem to be some sort of a warehouse. You see an awful lot of greenery around it. I cant get a read on where this fire is in the city of houston, but the city itself is sprawling. No doubt people from all over houston are seeing this thick plume of black smoke being sent into the sky. We are also monitoring local reports that say small explosions were heard in the area. It is certainly area, but we need to pass on we dont have any word of anyone being injured. However, as a result of this massive fire a nearby Elementary School is on lockdown. Businesses in the area have also been evacuated. Clearly, fire crews are rushing to the scene. We are going to stay on top of this breaking news and bring you more as soon as we learn exactly what it is that is on fire in houston. But, wow, its certainly that is a densely packed area. Yeah. Lots of things really close together. So really dangerous. This is completely out of control. You can see. Wow. Well stay on top of it. Time is 8 43. On a lighter note, bay area fans of beyonce, you can rejoice. [ music playing ]. The reason is beyonce has planned another show. We will tell you where she will be performing in the bay area soon and when you can buy tickets. First, the big conference underway in california all dedicated to earthquakes. Up next we hear from an expert on what the seismic activity happening here means. Dont you just love it imagine if the things you bought every day earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. With the united mileageplus explorer card, youll get a free checked bag, 2 united club passes. Priority boarding. And 30,000 bonus miles. Everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. The united mileageplus explorer card. Imagine where it will take you. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Time is 8 46. The director of the Southern California Earthquake Center says the southern portion of the San Andreas Fault is, quote, locked, loaded, and ready to roll. Thomas jordan said that yesterday at the National Earthquake conference in long beach. Jordan says pressure has been building on that southern part of the fault without being relieved for hundreds of years. He is estimating a 7. 8 quake in the area would probably cause more than 1800 deaths and 50,000 injuries. Thats incredible. Well, joining me live right now on mornings on 2 from that conference in long beach is one of the best. Renowned usgs earthquake expert dr. Lucy jones. Dr. Jones, it is good to see you. Thank you for joining us. Glad to be here. We just talked about the San Andreas Fault. Tell us more about it and what mr. Jordan was talking about. Well, what professor jordan is saying is what we have all been saying for a while. When we put together all the information we have about how the earthquake happens, we see it averages 100 to 150 years between events. North of l. A. , that part like at the sab gabriel mountains, its been 160 years. To the east its been 300 years. So weve known for a while this earthquake just has to happen eventually. At some point our luck is going to run out. Dont say that, please. But, i mean, i know its the truth based on all you have been telling us. What are you teaching others at this conference in long beach . My part of the conference, its really quite exciting. I worked with the city of los angeles for a year and they came up with the most comprehensive seismic resilience plan that we have ever seen here in Southern California. So i am in a session actually with patrick godolina from San Francisco sharing the experiences of our two cities with adopting resilience plans with the other cities that need to do the same thing. Now, i spent years in los angeles and in your office there in l. A. Interviewing you. Its good to see you again. And now i hear youre retiring. You spent more than 30 years with the u sgs. What else are you doing with Earthquake Research now . Yeah. I retired from the usgs just a month ago now. Right now i am working on a book. I am trying to put together the things that i have done in the last few decades. After that thats completed we are working at putting together a center to share these experiences, rezil generals, to take what we did with the city of los angeles to other cities. So its furthering the implementation. Moving beyond the Research Part that i did with the usgs to getting the revenued. I wish you much success with your retirement. And i know that even when that big one hits, people will still be searching out dr. Lucy jones for advice and information. Well, i think a big enough earthquake, i am not going to be able to stay away. Dr. Lucy jones, thank you for making time for being with us on mornings on 2 and all the best to you. Thank you. Thank you. Time is 8 49. Lets check back with sal on the commute once again. All right. Dave, thank you very much. We still have a lot of slow traffic out there, including a look at some of these commutes here at the bay bridge. It has been the same, which means slow. It has not improved this morning. It has been pretty much the same since 5 30. Also looking at the commute on the san mateo bridge. Itness to be very slow. Steve has been mentioning we might have some rain today. We have already had some rain today and that will slow our down. Highway 101 is slow. So is 280 and 85. Again we have to remind you to stay away from the area of first and component because of Police Activity. First street is closed between trimble and charcot and a lot of people are in slow traffic in this general area. Sal, thank you. Lets get right to it. Two thunderstorms currently. One right over clayton and one up in middletown in lake county. Watch how those many, many reports of bigtime thunder in clayton. Also heading into concord right now. And thats one cell. It came up from livermore. Wept over black hawk off mount diablo right now. So im sure right along ignacio valley road they will get no reports of hail yet. I have had many reports of thunder. And right there over middle thats thunderstorm activity. Hidden valley lake out of calistoga right there over middletown, highway 29. So it has begun, my friends. It has begun. There is the line thats forming. Look how thats coming up from antioch. Somebody said to me, frank said do you think we will have thunderstorms in oakley . Yes, i do. Anybody inland today. No doubt about it. The lane is already forming and its early, early. So wait until this afternoon. We could get some Severe Weather out of this. The line stretches now from about eastern Contra Costa County and then stretches to napa county, lake county and mendocino. I really think this area around here, santa rosa north up to ukiah could be up for whats going on in the sierra right now, incredible thunderstorm activity. You get some lift. You get colder air in the higher elevations, keep lapse rates. Its going to continue there for a couple of days, maybe through saturday night or early sunday. Our low is now close enough where it provides enough lift and dynamics. Thats whats going on. A few breaks in the clouds, and that helps. We are not getting any heat yet. West at 20. Westwest. West. There is an onshore breeze that translates into cooler afternoon highs and this line will form and you will get some outflow boundaries and that may fire up late afternoon. Cloudy to mostly cloudy. Showers already developing. Thunderstorms are the key today. This is about as good as it gets for us, i think, i mean for early may. You get not a cold, cold low, but its cold enough and dynamic enough its providing the ingredients necessary for thunderstorm activity. Hail is the main impact. Maybe some funnel clouds out to the valley would not surprise me in the least. There is too much energy right there. Potential energy, i should say. Through saturday we are in the soup, so to speak. I think friday evenings rain. I think coming back wrapping right around, i would not be surprised if we get rain. I know the giants are home. They are fine tonight. Friday night could be iffy. What about the afternoon commute today . Same as right now. Hit and miss. All right. Maybe just clouds. Other areas pouring. All right. Steve, thank you. Time is 8 53. Want to check in now or our Instagram Page. This story will prove you can do anything you put your mind to. I want to show you a 20year old with Downs Syndrome who is setting records. Maybe we wont be able to show you. I will tell you about blake pie ron of texas. He owns blakes snow shack. The youngest Business Owner in his city. Read the message from blakes mom. Its going to inspire you. There he is. There is a link on our Instagram Page which is ktvu 2. Before earning enough cash back from bank of america to buy a new gym bag. Before earning 1 cash back everywhere, every time and 2 back at the grocery store. Even before he got 3 back on gas. Kenny used his bankamericard cash rewards credit card to join the wednesday night league. Because he loves to play hoops. Not jump through them. Thats the excitement of rewarding connections. Apply online or at a bank of america near you. Welcome back. Time is 8 56. The bay area will get plenty of beyonce this year. [ music playing ]. There you go. We found out this morning beyonce added another show at levi stadium. Her next show is set for may 16 part of her formation world tour. Because of the high demand for that show, beyonce will come back to the bay area and perform at levis stadium september 17. Tickets to that show go on sale friday, may 13th through ticketmaster. And also its official now. Janet jackson is pregnant. Entertainment tonight confirmed janet and her husband are expecting their first child. Now last month she announced and she is 49 years old. Years young, should i say. She is cutting short a world tour because she wanted to start a family. She is defying the odds. Doctors say women over 40 have about a 5 chance of conceiving. Over 50 and the chance drops to just 1 . But congratulations, janet. Well, somebody here in the bay area, and it could be you, may become super rich this weekend. But you have to buy the winning Powerball Lottery ticket first. The jackpot is 415 million for saturday nights big drawing after no one matched the winning numbers last night. No one has won that full jackpot since march 2nd. Now, even though 415 million is a lot of money, its a lot less from that 1. 6 billion jackpot in january. That was the biggest jackpot ever drawn in the world. All right. Coming up on mornings on 2 the 9, do you know that its been one person who managed to mess up the commute. We have our reporter there talking about that and well ask her some questions. Its developing news still. We are also talking about cinderella. Remember that . Thats in San Francisco right now. We have a couple of the actors coming to visit us. And more weather. Thats coming up on the 9. Its the Disneyland Resort diamond celebration. Dont miss your chance to see it all dazzle. Come celebrate new beginnings like hyperspace mountain. And premiering this summer, frozen, a musical spectacular. 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