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That pcbjuneeds to be done. I will hold them more to prevent that type of damage. The protest was peaceful but inside there was a disturbance during the national anthem. They were escorted out. At 6 00 p. M. The mayor says she had big plans for the citys two teams, the Baseball Team and the teams, the Baseball Team and the Football Team and we talked to the new elected people for the city. New at 6 00 p. M. Paul chambers, thank you. A sunday night shooting outside a San Francisco Police Station may have been triggered by replugugun. Two replica gun. Ktvus David Stevenson is at the station now. The investigation is ongoing tonight. Reporter yeah. Replica guns have been at the center of a number of controversial shootings around the country. In this case the mat that was fatally shot approached officers asking them if they have been part of a officer involved shooting. Reporter the shooting sunday night outside the San Francisco Police Mission station came after three police chargants say a man block sergeants say a man blocked their cars. Investigators say he lifted his sweater displaying a hand gun. Two Police Officers fired, striking the man. He died in the hospital. They found a bb or a pellet gun. It is very worrisome because it looks and feels like real gun. It is heavy. Metal. Reporter Police Showed us how similar they are. It is unclear whether the one found yesterday had a orange tip to indicate it was a replica. When you come across a situation when one of these weapons is displayed you have a fraction of a second to determine whether or not it is real. Reporter possession of bb or pellet guns is a misdemeanor. Investigators say they are used to commit crimes. Police in minneapolis and chicago indianapolis and chicago sent warnings about these. Those are real guns, real rifles that the suspects paint in order to confuse or make Law Enforcement believe that they are fake. Reporter police chief tomorrow night at 6 00 p. M. Will hold a town hall meeting about the shooting at the church next to the Mission Street Police Station. At 6 00 p. M. Reaction about the shooting as well as other attentions among the communities and Police Departments around the country. That is something the chief has done since officer involved shooting since he took office. Thank you. An update on the Controversial Police shooting in ferguson, missouri. A member of the grand jury that did not indict Darren Wilson wants to be able to discuss that case. The aclu filed the lawsuit asking a court to remove a life time order that prevents them from discussing the case. It also questions st. Louis county the district attorneys characterization that all grand jurors believe there was no support for any charges. The nfl could be returning to los angeles. The owner of the st. Louis rams says he is going to build a new stadium in inglewood. The question is, what does this mean for the Oakland Raiders . Ktvus allie rasmus with what she learned today. Reporter los angeles was rumored to be one of the cities the raiders were considering a move to. Fans are wonder figure the rams beat them to the punch. Reporter at the raiders fan store in oakland she looked for another raiders jersey. The pink jersey. As a raiders fan she is used to hearing the rumor about where the team might end up moving. Todays announcement about the rams building a new stadium in los angeles cheered her up a bit. I think that i wish that we would do something to keep the raiders here. The raiders least expired a year ago. Leaders negotiated a one year extension that will expire this spring. Talks are underway to negotiate another deal. Said i want to stay in oakland. The lessonings tension isnt the the lease extension isnt the goal. Reporter that long term goal, to build a better stadium to keep the raiders here permanently. One thing they need is a separate stadium from baseball or baseball and football are no longer sharing better access and better lighting and stronger fan experience, more places to get food. Will the city be able to finalize a plan for that in the next year . Building a new football stadium reporter so is the cost of moving a franchise it a new city. He says because of that the raiders are likely to stay in oakland for a while. If i am a fan, i am buying my stickts. Season ticketts. Reporter libby schaaf will help keep the raiders in oakland. Paul chambers will have more at 6 00 p. M. How long till construction begins in Southern California and how long till a team could Start Playing there . They have a few hurdles. Later this year voters will decide on the stadium project and if it processes that could speed up the construction process. 2018 is the earliest it would be complete and the earliest a team could play there. Allie rasmus, thank you. A case of a stolen car lead to a highspeed chase and a three cart accident on highway 24 this afternoon. Ktvu channel 2 news was there after the crash. After 1 45 p. M. Witnesses said a red car was going 100 Miles Per Hour when it hit two vehicles causing one to roll into a fence. The chp says Contra Costa County sheriffs deputies called off the chase before the crash happened. One man avoided getting hit. I didnt know, i thought somebody side swiped somebody and it caused the accident. But you could hear sirens and they were not far behind. Witnesses say one of the two suspects tried to run after the crash before being taken away in a ambulance. Two other drivers are hospitalized. The Contra Costa County Sheriffs Office says it started when a deputy tried to pull over the stolen car. Investigators say the suspects may have been involved in a shoplifting incident at a store. A Catholic Monastery in san jose is grieving the loss of one of its members that was killed yesterday in a car crash. He died in a collision sunday morning as he was on his way to visit his brother in San Francisco. He was a member of the monastery in san jose. He was a native of San Francisco and had lived at the monastery since he became a priest in 1992. Before that he worked for bank of america. A spokesman said he was a quiet man and did whatever they needed. The chp says another car lost control and sent his car off the highway. Looking face to face with the man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon. Jury selection began today with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. It is not just guilt or initance they will be deciding. They will or innocence, they will be deciding. Reporter jury selection in boston. 1200 potential jurors summoned to the courthouse for the trial of Boston Marathon bomburgistgist. They are arrive bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, they arrived today. You have to really be careful that you get people who are not predisposed to it or totally against it. Reporter Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in attendance. He pled not guilty to 30 charges. Killed 3 and injured 260 there were three killed and 260 injured. [ talking at the same time ] the constitution requires the government prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The trial will begin january 26. Allows three weeks for the jury to be selected. 17 counts are punishable by death. They will decide Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs fate in a second phase. If he is found guilty of any of those crimes. Massachusetts is a liberal state that is against the Death Penalty and it is not legal in massachusetts. Because it is a federal case they could bring the Death Penalty in the case even though it is in massachusetts. Reporter his brother died in a shoot out with police. Ktvu channel 2 news. Two promising skiers who were vying to be on the u. S. Ski team were killed in a avalanche. Ronnie berlack and bryce astle were killed while skiing near the training base. This is video of him racing. They were on part of a 10 Person Development team and were preparing to go to the world cup. The team is stunned. His mother said her son was aspiring to be in the olympics and he was on his way to that goal. It is day six for some families without hot water in their homes. It is very frustrating. We are asking why it is taking so long to fix. The bay area is warming up, the areas where it is expected to climb into the upper 60s tomorrow. And a little girl survives a plane crash that killed her family. The man who helped her talks about how she fought to survive. Its value made simple. Subway . This is all that remains of a small airplane that crashed in western kentucky killing five members of a family on board. Only a 7yearold girl lived and she found safety using the survival skills her father along time pilot taught her. Investigators are planning to talk tosailor gutzler saying to sailor gutzler saying she could help them determine why the plane went down. Her actions are describeds a nothing short of remarkable. Cribed as nothing short of remarkable described as nothing short of remarkable. Reporter everyone on board, her mother, father, sister, and cousin died. Her family on board was unresponsive. She utized her nonif utealized her noninjured arm. Reporter she made her way through terrain, barefoot, wearing shorts and no coat before stumbling on his home. He heard a knock at the door and found sailor gutzler scraped, bloody and upset, saying she had been in a plane crash. I brought her in the house, propped her feet up and called 911. And got a hold of a police officer. Fortunately he was close to the house. Reporter Law Enforcement says some sort of divine intervention was at work. His home was one of three in the area that is occupied during the winter. She was amazingly composed for a 7yearold girl who just got out of a plane crash and lost her parents. Amazing. Sailor gutzler is from illinois. Tonight she is with family and friends. They are not talking about the plane crash, they are doing everything they can to make her feel safe and loved. Researchman police are Richmond Police are asking for the publics help to find Belinda Jean Carson who was last seen at 5 30 p. M. And police have information she may be with a man who is holding her hostage. She is 53, 165 pounds and she has pierced nose. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call police. Governor jerry brown was sworn in for a 4th term in office today. [ cheers and applause ] he layed out his goals and touched on the issue of funding higher education. I said before i will not make the students of california the default finance ears of the colleges and universities. He proposed three goals to mitigate climate change, reduce how much patrolm cars use and make existing buildings more energy efficient. It is necessary if we are to have any chance of 9s 7qcnstopping changing to our climate system. He is 76 years old. In south florida gay couples started getting married today. I am lifting the stay. [ cheers and applause ] a statewide ban on gay marriage ends at midnight tonight but you saw there a judge in south florida lifted the ban early today it it didnt today and it didnt take long as the first samesex couples did show. Samesex marriage could begin at midnight tonight. It was approved in 2008 but the ban was ruled unconstitutional earlier this year. Our weather is about to take a change after a week of an extra blanket. Bill martin, i am excited for the warm weather. Spare the air nights, we had freeze warnings, frost advisories. Temperatures on the warm up. The days are getting longer, right . More day light. 5 15 p. M. And you have light left. The bay bridge there. High clouds over head. The clouds streaming in from a fair weather system. The system off shore is not fair weather system but the ridge of High Pressure is on top of us. This is all potential rainfall. If it was south north, in this direction, as it was a few weeks ago, game on for rain. But what is happening, this is why the jet stream is important, this thing is going up to the north of us. That is where it stays. Over the top of the rockies there, down into the plains. They will see rain and weather from it but we will miss out. 50s. We will see 60s tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow back into the low and mid60s. And maybe down the road we might see upper 60s. It will warm up. There is no rain in the immediate forecast. There is a chance in the five day forecast for a little bit of something. Not much. Not worth talking about. The next significant rain that i could find shows up around the 17th of january. But that could change. In the meantime we are in a situation with mild to warm weather. Chilly over night lows still. Not as cold as it was and patchy fog. Tomorrow is a nice day. If you can get out, head out to the coast, santa cruz. Coast line. Filtered sunshine from the clouds but it will be warmer and rain stays to the north. No frost advisory, no freeze warnings, no spare the air day. No rain. Spare the air day tomorrow. We will look for the areas with the least healthy air. Eastern zones. Which you knew. The fiveday forecast show temperatures on the increase. Tomorrows highs. Saturday, sunday or tuesday, wednesday, thursday, temperatures will be coming up. Tuesday 69. That is top end stuff. And cooler on thursday and friday. There is the chance of a sprinkle. Not i would be surprised if we would see it. A little something. Whatever it is. Just that, a little something. When i come back we will look at the long range model. On the 17th, in january, significant rain with maybe multiple storms. Good. Which is encouraging. Feels like we are back to the drawing board, all that rain and then nothing. Imagine if we hadnt got all that rain, looking that five day forecast, not good. 150 of average in most places. Thank you. A local man is on a adventure, scaling one of the toughest routes on elcap tan. Julie haener is here now for what we are working on for 6 00 p. M. Googal bus has been running for google bus has been running for years and now they are taking people who dont even work for the company. Also a Community Coming together against a school. The reason some people believe a new school will ruin their neighborhood. These stories and much more coming up new at 6 00 p. M. Hey guess what day it is . . Hump day hummmp daaay its hump day yeah hey Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike mike mike. Hey he knows hey guess what day it is hey camel guess what day it is its not even wednesday. Let it go, phil. If youre a camel, you put up with this all the time. Its what you do. sigh if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Ok. Two men, one of whom is from the bay area, are half way through one of the hardest climbs in the world, scaling the wall on el capitan in yosemite using just their hands and feet. They have spent 10 days climbing and sleeping on the wall, 3,000 feet off the valley floor. These photos have been posted to his instagram account. They would be the first to free climb that section. It is a chance to see the future of technology before it hits the market. The Consumer Electronics show is gearing up in las vegas. Rachel moore shows us the new gadgets. Reporter from light up jackets and safety vests to 3d food printers, thousands of innovators powering up for the 2015 international Consumer Electronics show. This is the grandest show on earth. [ indiscernible ] ideas popping out of the wood works. The founder out of San Francisco, they are making smart tvs smarter with pop up trivia questions or reminders of when your Favorite Program comes on. They are one of 3500 exhibitors featured. This year will be the biggest ever. 2million feet of exhibit space. Reporter they will provide meeting space, while exhibitors will be housed in two other sections. This is [ indiscernible ] reporter they are showing off their newest invention, a snowboard tracking balance to improve your skills. This group came all the way from japan. We have all these people coming. A trillion dollars business when you consider all of the content and devices we watch all this stuff on. That was rachel moore reporting. Here are interesting facts about the Consumer Electronics show. There are 20,000 products there. They have 2 million square feet of floor space. That is the size of 393 basketball courts. The show was first held in 1967 1967. The vcr debuted in 1970 there and the first xbox in 2001. Families go six days without hot water after a gas line is damaged in a storm. We asked the city about repairs and they didnt think their response was too slow. Their explanation up next. Oil Company Stocks took a whipping today. They were the big losers, but there were also some winners. And an explosion so strong it knocked over that photographer taking these pictures. How all of this unfolded. For over 60,000 california foster children nights can feel long and lonely. I miss my sister. I miss my old school. I miss my room. I dont want special treatment. I just wanna feel normal. To help, sleep train is collecting pajamas for foster children, big and small. Bring your gift to any sleep train and help make a Foster Childs night a little cozier. Not everyone can be a Foster Parent but anyone can help a foster child. vo at jennieo, we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride ten miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco, made with jennieo ground turkey, cooked thoroughly to 165. mom id feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. woman i think that theyre light and theyre just fresh tasting. vo its time for a better taco. kid the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. vo make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey at a store near you. Complete bay area News Coverage continues right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5 00 p. M. After six days without hot water some families in san jose just had their hot water restored in the past hour. We told you about this on saturday after a person who lives there contacted us. All of this started last tuesday when a tree damaged a gas line and pg e crews were at the complex all day today working to fix the problem. Ktvus Azenith Smith is live that apartment complex. You spoke to the city about why it took so long to bring back the hot water. The city says it boils down to communication. It hasnt been a quick mix, leaving families frustrated frustrated and wondering why it took so long. A long six days. They have had to boil water so the children could take a bath. It is frustrating. Especially, you know, when there is no assistance or any vouchers. Reporter all the children want is one thing. I want to take a shower. Reporter he and 35 other units in san jose inconvenienced without hot water after a wind storm tuesday damaged a gas line. It wasnt till monday morning pg e crews arrived to restore service. After relighting a pilot light crews found gas wasnt coming through right away delaying service even more. They didnt learn till after the tree fell there was a problem. Reporter she says the Property Owners didnt notify the city till late friday. Once the repairs were done they were able toissue work permits to issue work permits. Contact the city right away when there is a gas repair taking place. Reporter i reached out to the owner and was told over the phone no comment. Communication. Lack of communication with the not the manager but the property management. Lack of communication. Reporter he hopes this never happens again and if it does it wont take days to fix. It could have been done better. Things could have been handled better than what it was. [ indiscernible ] reporter he did not have hot water. The city says the situation is a reminder to contact the city right away if they have a broken water line. Six days felt like forever. Thank you. Former san jose mayor is taking on a new role after 8 years of mayor. He is joining the law firm as special counsel. He studied law at stanford and worked in san jose before getting into politics and he has no plans to run for office again. He says he will still be politically involved. The muni board of directors this week is set to approve plans for a new bus route, it will increase service along 16 16th street and will connect Mission Street b. A. R. T. Station to the new hospital. Plans will be presented for final approval tomorrow. If approved it will launch on january 31. Oil prices staying below 50 a barrel. That prompted a sell off on wall street. The dow is down 331 to 17,501. The nasdaq is down 74 at 4,652. Those were the biggest drops in several months. Ktvus tom vacar is live with the reasons behind the drop and what it means to all of us. Reporter think about it, Oil Companies use that supply and demand argument to justify higher prices. Today the shoe is on the other foot. Reporter for many reasons oil supplies are abundant. So today oil Company Stocks plunged as investigators decided to not wait for oil to recover. A good time buy. You know it is a good long term investment. Reporter today Big Oil Stocks lost 35 . For every thousand dollars invested you lost 30 to 50 bucks today. Since stocks hit their highs last year the drop is far more serious. Exxon down 16 . Chevron down 25 . Shell 30 . Conoco 32 . Bb48 . Billions upon billions erased. Losers Oil Companies and the people that own oil company stock, especially in their 401 k . Winners . Just about everybody else. We discovered there is low cost Oil Available that we didnt know was there 10 years ago. Oil is used in all parts of the economy. All businesses use oil. Low oil prices is good news. This is good news for the world. Most of our job reaction over the past creation over the past 5 years has come from oil and oil service companies. Reporter fracing. A new way to recover crude oil at low cost. We are not going going to see high prices because over the last decade we discovered there is all this low cost oil out there that will be available. The fracking has yet to prove itself environmentally safe. You can expect more of it and very soon. Tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. There may be a break through in the search for the black boxes from the air asia jet liner that crashed into the sea. An indonesian crew found what could be the tail section of the plane and that is where the black boxes would be located. Crews also widened the search area to allow for the movement of currents. 37 buddies have been bodies have been recovered and families say the waiting is unbearable. [ speaking Foreign Language ] i cannot accept this. I cannot believe it. Where are my familys bodies . Where is my mother . My heart is breaking. Indonesians Authorities Say air asia did not have a permit to fly on that route the day the plane went down. Some officials have been suspected and air asia is banned from flying that route while an investigation is carried out. People are upset over plans to demolish Candlestick Park. Why they say the plan comes at the cost of their health. First in the nation, San Francisco wants you to curve it, kick tobacco and ecigarettes to the curb. And some incredible video. An unplanned explosion caught on camera at a fireworks factory and how the photographer who took those pictures is doing now. Again . Give them something special. Gather around the worlds best chicken and homestyle sides for a dinner everyone will get excited about. Kfc. Now that the holidays are over everyone is getting rid of their Christmas Trees. In many trees, they will take them back for free. Ktvus Tara Moriarty tells us you might be surprised to learn what they will be use for. Reporter kick that Christmas Tree to the curb. This year recology of San Francisco will put the trees through the wood chipper. Children learn how to recycle. This fits into that too. Reporter you might this can the trees get composted but they wind up being used to make electricity. Difficult to compost Christmas Trees. They just have Natural Properties that resist composting but they are good as a bio fuel. Reporter officials want to remind you taremove the to remove the steps and it is larger than six feet tall chop it in half. Customers could leave the trees on the curve. San francisco leads north america when it comes to recycling but we could do better. People are doing a good job but we got to take the next step. The Old Spaghetti and moldy bread, moldy struberries strawberries we have to separate them and get them into the compost bin. Reporter if you bought a flocked tree, it will land up in the landfill, so next year a plain old Christmas Tree is the way to go. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Explosion is caught on camera. It is so strong it knocks the camera man off his feet. He is okay. The explosion filled the sky with bangs and a lot of colors. The rumble was heard for miles. It happened in columbia this morning. Bystanders rushed for coverage as the fireworks shot off in all directions. The photographer islert. At this point investigators are not sure what caused the explosion. Fall out from a plan to implode Candlestick Park. Why some neighbors are afraid that could effect their health and what they will do about it tonight. A mystery visit ends in a 2,000 tip. What workers plan to do with it and who is the big spender. Warm weather heading your way. No rain, though. The heat that is coming your way. We will talk to you in a minute. Introducing the new subway simple 6 menu. It starts with six of our best sixinch subs now in madejustforyou meals for just 6 every day. Youve really got it made. Take your pick from six of our best subs, like the italian b. M. T, tender turkey breast, sweet onion chicken teriyaki and more. With a 21ounce drink and a bag of chips the new simple 6 menu is value made simple, every day. You so got it made. 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The Community Members just want to voice their concerns to the developer who is tasked with demolishing the stadium. For the past month residents who live by Candlestick Park grow more concern about the plans to bring it down. The company who will demolish it applied for a permit to dismantle it piece by piece. Crews are already working to remove harmful chemtuals but the develop chemicals but the developer also requested the permit to implode Candlestick Park. They are worried about the dust plume it could create. They are not taking into consideration, the environmental harms and the hazards and damage they will do to the community. Reporter they demand the developers stick to their original plan to avoid the dust. Health concerns are nothing new. In 1998 the towers housing complex sparked sparked the same explosive issue. They said while segments of the community preserve piece be piece we reporter this meeting is expected to start at 6 00 p. M. In 10 minutes it will get underway. The Developers Tell us regardless of what alms is chosing they said the city of option is chose, they said the city of San Francisco will choose. The demolition is scheduled last month or early march. Cristina rendon, thank you. Muni announced a new way to pay a fair, through your smart phone. The app aplows passengers to store payment allows passengers to store payment options. The app is secure. This will have benefits on a number of fronts. Faster boarding. More convenience for customers and allows people to store their fairs in one place on their smart phone which they always carry. The app offers single ride fairs and one, three, and seven day passes. They plan to launch it this summer. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is starting a book club. His goal is to read new book every two weeks. He created a Facebook Page for the club called a year of books. And the first book he selected may not exactly be a light read. The end of power from board rooms to battle fields and churches to states. Why being in charge isnt what it used to be. He had interesting new years resolutions in the past. Lank year it was to write a thank you note every day. Two years ago it was to meet a new person every day. Back to work, back to school for so many and we are notice it is not getting dark quite so early. If you look that shot at San Francisco, the bay bridge beautiful. It is beautiful. What looks different them bark dareo isnt the embarcadero isnt lit. My lights are still up. I have to get on it. 17,000 lights they got down and i have 20, 30 at my house. [ talking at the same time ] [ laughter ] took me a minute. There is the beautiful shot. Beautiful sunset tonight. I got all sorts of pictures on facebook. Ocean beach. Beautiful sunset. Right amount of clouds. The clouds are streaming in from a system. Coming up over the top. They are going south to north and so what you need is a west to east flow. That is what we had when we had the rain. That is a atmospheric river. Just going the wrong way. We are not going to get rain from that. We might see light sprinkles on friday but even then, not a big event. Real rain shows up around middle of january, 16 or 17. Models get more aggressive in bringing rain. Winds are clocking. Northeast. That is a fair weather direction. We had a ph. D. Ph. D. Today. We will have spare the air day today. We will have a spare the air day tomorrow. Over night lows with patchy coastal fog. A chance of showers in on friday. You can see there is no organization to it. The flow is still going this way. As soon as the chance goes through we clear out and monday and tuesday we stay dry and warm. That is how it will go through the weekend. Next week. 17th things change. The ridge of High Pressure is dominant. We need rain. We need snow in the mountains. The mountains are behind on their snow. They didnt get the rain we got a lot of rain. If we get 5inches of rain, they may see 5 inches of snow but they didnt. They got half of it. Anyway, we will see rain towards had middle of the month the middle of the month. Spare the air day tomorrow. Temperatures on the increase. Mid60s. Upper 60s. Cooler on thursday with a chance of a sprinkle. It is funny with the heights down, how much darker it lights down, how much darker it looks. [ talking at the same time ] 17,000. They first put them up 1987. After that they started publicizing it. Love how that looks. Thank you. 100,000 campaign to combat several Million Dollars worth of advairination, the fight advertising, the fight against ecigarettes. Julie haener is here now for what we are working on for 6 00 p. M. Coming up, they are out of the playoffs but the 49ers are still in the spotlight. The game plan at the center of a lawsuit against the 9ers and the owner. Plus benefit of having google as a neighbor. This benefit has been offered to employees for years, and now it is being given to the neighborhood for free. The new google buses and where they go. These stories and much more coming up new at 6 00 p. M. For over 60,000 california foster children nights can feel long and lonely. To help, sleep train is collecting pajamas for foster children, big and small. Bring your gift to any sleep train and help make a Foster Childs night a little cozier. Diner leaving tips in the name of jesus returned to the bay area. The man left a 2,000 tip at the restaurant in San Francisco last friday with a teresa with a teresa with a tips for jesus comment. Been a year said he made an appearance in the bay area. In San Francisco the Health Department launched a new first in the Nation Campaign against smoking. They are not just starting cigarettes, they are target targeting cigarettes, they are now targeting ecigarettes. Ktvus john fowler tells us the city is spending more than 100,000 to stop that trend. Reporter they want people to curve it. What do you do about the smoke . Vapeing is sky rocketing. Ecigarettes sales up 25 a year. From cheap lookalikes like these to high end gadgets. Supporters say they can help folks quit tobaccos. Nonsmokers prefer them. Less in your face. People are being misled about these products. The Health Department announcing a new ad campaign. Trying to counter big tobacco. Ecigarettes are unregulated. You are taking risks. Reporter he says besides nicotine ecigarettes are shown to contain cancer causing heavy metals. San francisco regulates them as tobacco products. There is so much advertising. The city plans to kickoff the campaign this week. In San Francisco, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. Flu season is getting worse. Today the centers for Disease Control and prevention reported that the flu is now widespread in 43 states. That is up from 36 states last week. Six more children have died after getting the flu. That brings the total number of children deaths to 21 nationwide this season. It is not widespread in california yet but it is just a matter of time. Now at sick p. M. Officers open fire 6 00 p. M. Officers open fire on a man, now we are learning about the message he left for those officers. The 49ers are out of the post season but they are still in the spotlight. The allegations of discrimination made against the team and the ceo. New shuttle buses in Mountain View today, what google and the city hope taaccomplish to accomplish with the free shuttle. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6 00 p. M. In the past 15 minutes the San Francisco Police Department released new information about a deadly shooting outside a Police Station and the message that the man left behind for officers who shot and killed him. Good evening everyone. Hello. I am frank somerville. And i am julie haener. It happened last night when police say a man trespassed at the Police Station and carrying a bb or pellet gun. Ktvus David Stevenson is live with new information from the Police Department. David . Reporter a lot of new information coming out within the last hour. First of all the medical examiner identified the man shot here by police as matthew hoffman. Within the last 40 minutes the San Francisco Police Department released a suicide letter that was found on his cell phone and released to the public with the permission of the mans father. We want to show you the suicide letter. It reads dear officer you did nothing long, you ended the life of a man who was too much of a cowered to do it hisself, i provoked you. You are within your legal rights to do what you did. The shooting comes among concerns about