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Good afternoon. Im tori campbell. Today, the ntsb reveal what likely lead to the deadly asiana crash at sfo last july. The board said that pilot mismanagement was ultimately what led to the boeing 777 crash killing three people. Ktvus Kyla Campbell was there as ntsb officials announced their finds and joins us live why why investigators say the boeing with why investigators say the boeing aircraft played a role. Reporter the acting chairman did not put the blame on one specific person or thing. He said in the end it came back to the pilots reliance on automation and the misunderstanding of the system. The pilot must always be in command and be the boss. Reporter investigators say the Asiana Airlines crew failed to monitor speed and could not rerecoverral realizing they were flying too slow and low. They say the pilot did not have add quit training for a visual approach and pilot fatigue likely played a role. They also said a boeing 777 and throttle system is complex. They recommend boeing make changes to the flight manual and give enhanced training to pilots. Boeing sent me a statement. The company disagrees with the ntsb that the 777s auto flight system contributed to the accident. When it comes to the sfo emergency crews response, they say sufficient staffing helped save lives but a crew ran over a passenger who had been ejected. The ntsb said there was not adequate guidance and training how to respond. Its something that the sfo spokesman tells me they have worked on. Airports like ours do an annual exercise drill. Ours is scheduled for september. We look forward to training practicing all of the steps weve implemented already. Reporter one board member said that as bad as that day was as ntsb, there was a lot of good. 99 of the people on the plane survived and 98 were able to selfevacuate. Live in washington at ntsb headquarters, Kyla Campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, kyla. More details now on several of the lawsuits stemming from the deadly crash. In january, a group of passengers from the flight filed a personal injury lawsuit against boeing. The maker of the plane. The lawsuit claims that the 777 had defective auto throttle control and low air speed warning systems. Boeing is also accused of inadequately training the pilots. More than 80 of the planes 291 passengers are named as plaintiffs in that lawsuit. And the parents of the 16 yearold girl who died after being run over by two San Francisco fire rigs responding to the Asiana Airlines crash have filed a legal claim against the city of San Francisco. Its the first step toward a formal lawsuit. The ntsb revealed the 16year old was run over twice by fire bigs racing across the tarmac. Her family said the firefighters were not properly trained to mark the location of victims and avoid hitting they. And the San Francisco fire them and the San Francisco Fire Department is dealing with a lawsuit filed by one of its own. A 24yearold veteran filed the suit last month claiming she was a scapegoat in the incident when one of the passengers was run over and killed. She said another firefighter was involved and only her name and information was released to the media. To news clips and the news conference, go to ktvu. Com. You will find a complete section on our coverage of the report on the crash on our home page. Its been eight months since a santa rosa teen was shot to death by a Sonoma County sheriffs deputy. Now family members who have lost loved ones in Police Deaths like andy lopez are asking for the federal government to step in to curb the number of such deaths. Tara moriarty is live from santa rosa to explain. Good afternoon, tara. Reporter well, good afternoon. Thats right. Families and Community Leaders are asking the department of justice to help step in and change the system. They met here at a law firm in santa rosa early this morning and they want the department the of justice and u. S. Attorneys to return to Sonoma County to investigate what they call the criminal overuse of deadly force and ramped up military type confrontation. This comes 14 years after the d. O. J. s Civil Rights Division issued 26 recommendations to try to solve the problem. But these leaders say none of those recommendations like sensitivity training or wearing lapel cameras has been implemented. They say some police are ill equipped to handle certain 911 calls. A mentally ill person might be waving a butter knife at them or someone is holding a broomstick or presenting them with a paradigm and they are not prepared how to hand it. Where is the handle it. Where is the training how to defuse the defuse the situation there . If you cant talk to a 13 yearold with a toy gun maybe you should doing Something Else like data entry where nobody will talk to you. Reporter the total number of deaths in policerelated incidents since 2000 has reached 61. It wants the d. O. J. To adopt policies to have the attitude that deadly force is an option of last resort. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, tara. In san mateo county, three kids with air soft guns near an Elementary School were mistaken for armed suspects. It happened yesterday afternoon near ormondale Elementary School in portola valley. School was out for the summer. The incident is now under investigation. Audreys law has moved a step closer in the State Capitol this morning with one compromise. The legislation prompted by the suicide of a saratoga teenager who killed herself after photos spread on the internet of her being sexually abused after she passed out from drinking. Today, an Assembly Committee removed a twoyear mandatory minimum sentence for juvenile offenders and replaced it with a rehabilitation program. But the bill maintains a one year sentence for adults convicted of a similar crime. San Francisco Police have now released pictures and video of the person they believe is setting fires in the citys soma neighborhood. Sal castanedo joins us with the photo and news of a task force thats been formed. Good afternoon, sal. Reporter tori, good afternoon. I want to show you this construction site here. If you have been to San Francisco, there are a lot of construction sites. This one and others have added security at the request of police who say they want publics help in if identifying arsonists. Today San Francisco Police Released photos and a video of a person of interest. The fires have been set in the last two weeks. Some in broad daylight. Construction sites, garages and trash cans have been lit up. Seven incidents are being investigated. San Francisco Polices Sergeant Newman told us about the video of a man lingering in a garage area. You see a suspect in the video following someone with a bike. He walks through a corridor, kind of comes back, me anders back to the door meanders back to the door and tries a second door and comes back to the door he initially entered. We definitely if somebody recognizes him would like an identification on him. Reporter a task force for the San Francisco fire and Police Department has been set up. San Francisco Police say it has added more patrols in the area and several buildings have added security as a result of the recent arsons. Police say this is too early to tell if this is the work of one person but they want to speak to the man there. Now, especially dangerous if we can come back out live, construction sites often dont have their Sprinkler System set up. So any arson at a site like this can be very serious. Thats why San Francisco Fire Department and police are so concerned. If you know the man or if you know the man in the video, please contact them. Live in San Francisco, sal castanedo, ktvu channel 2 news. A Train Derailment in oakland this morning. The investigation into how this happened when the train was not even moving. Its warmer today around the bay area. But Rosemary Orozco is tracking a cooler pattern that could bring a bit of wet weather. Less than 30 minutes ago, officials voted whether to regulate the amount of marijuana dispenries in the area. Heavy equipment was brought to an oakland train yard to right four freight cars found mysteriously derailed. Workers found them off the tracks at about 7 00 a. M. At a yard on 23rd and interstate 880. One car was leaning precariously. The cars were not attached to a train but were filled with frozen pork, plywood and cardboard. The cause of the derailment is under investigation. Highway 1 is closed in both directions on the Sonoma County coast this noontime because of an overturned big rig leaking oil. The chp says the Petroleum Tanker overturned about four miles north of the junction of state route 116 north of jenner at about rather 10 30 this morning. The driver suffered minor injuries. An official says the tanker is carrying 5600 gallons of oil. Some of that is leaking on the roads. Crews are trying to contain this and creep it out of a and keep it out of a nearby creek. Just a short time ago, the santa clara board of supervisors voted to approve a moratorium on marijuana dispensaries. Ktvus janine de la vega was at the meeting and joins us live to let us know what this means for those businesses and the community. Good afternoon, janine. Reporter good afternoon, tori. Well, the vote was unanimous and what it would do is it would prevent any cannabis clubs from opening up on unincorporated county land. Now, this is only temporary. So for the next 45 days, the county will review how to regulate dispensaries if they come. Right now, there are approximately 80 cannabis clubs in san jose but none operate in unincorporated areas of the county. They need to be a certain dissance way disaway from schools, park and homes. Theres concern from county officials that they may relocate or pop up before any regulations are in place. At the meeting, supervisors expressed they didnt want an outright ban but agreed the issue needed to be studied more. What the board asked for was study the ban but make sure were taking care of use and access. We want to make sure children dont have access and people who need medical marijuana do have access. We believe there needs to be more Community Input and an outright ban would endanger or community, limiting access is not the right way to go. Reporter cannabis dispensary advocates were hand on hand. The new san jose law only permits marijuana to be grown in one site within a city, county or city that borders. They say that would force many to close. They are Gathering Signatures for a referendum that would challenge the city of san jose. But they will be closely watching what happened when county supervisors discuss this issue in the next 45 days. Reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. All right. Thank you, janine. The lawyer for a former Oakland High School Security Guard accused of abusing a student in a wheelchair says his client may have been acting in selfdefense. Last months kf fronttation was caught on camera. Marshall mitchell was charged with child abuse after Francisco Martinez was dumped out of his wheelchair. Mitchells lawyer says martinez has a history of discipline problems and bears some responsibility because he spat on mitchell and antagonized him. Its conceivable if my client was acting in self defense based upon an aggressive student and known aggressive student his actions may have been maybe not more rally acceptable but justified. Mitchell is flee free on bail and will return to court. The school has hired an independent investigator. San jose police are investigating an attempted robbery in which the films were tased and hit with a hammer. It happened on Camden Avenue near merle road at anapartment complex. The female victim is pregnant and said she was tased on the hand. The male victim said he was hit with a hammer. A walnut creek creek man is recovering after a violent confrontation with a suspected burglar. Police say the neighbors confronted this man at the boulders apartment complex on civic drive. He had just allegedly committed a burglary and was trying to get away. The neighbor fought with him and was stabbed with a screwdriver but he was able to hold him down until police arrived. San rafael officials are considering a number of options to zeal with homeless en deal with home also enkarnments and several recent grass fires. There have been five fires in the area of the city. This is video of the first fire not far from home depot. The fires are spreading quickly in the tall, dry grass where theres been a problem with homeless encampment for years. Its a clear and present danger to the campers and the firefighters here that are responding. Its just dangers. We feel if we can remove the fuel for the encampments, well end up making it much safer. The fire chief told us this morning they may do a controlled burn in the area to remove the grass and they may bring in votes to eat the grass. Police and private security have boosted patrols in the area. Our bay area summertime pattern remains in place for one more day until those changes start to move our way. I will take a look at the switch in the pattern coming in a moment. Lets start with a live look outside our doors across the bay from San Francisco, you can see San Francisco in the foreground. Oakland there in the background. At least a few degrees warmer than yesterday. Were up by 3 degrees in areas like oakland, livermore up by 5 as well as concord. Santa rosa up by 10 degrees from just this hour yesterday. Weve got some fog along the coastline, half moon bay, mostly cloudy skies as well as areas like pacifica. This is going to linger for today. This is one sign of changes that are coming. Lets take a look at the numbers. Right now, 86 in antioch, already a warm one for you. Lowe 80s in concord. Mid80s in fairfield. 87 walnut creek. Weve got 60s around the bay. A few low 70s in areas like Mountain View and santa rosa. At the coast, were cloudy and cool can, 59 half moon bay. Cool at the coast, mild around the way. Warm to hot for our inland cities. The onshore breeze, 5, 15 miles an hour. 14 miles an hour in novato. Fairfield reporting 12 gusting to 18. Things are changing the winds are growing stronger for the afternoon. That wont be the only thing thats changing. Im gonna show you a system out in the pacific that will be riding our way. It will cool us down. It will bring patchy drizzle and may squeeze out a spriferlle, although most of it is expected to remain over Northern California. I will show you that. Well pick it up for you. At this hour, we have mostly cloudy skies up against the coast. The rest of us, it will be a pleasant and warm day. As we get into wednesday, wednesday morning. Clouds remain at the coast. Take a look at whats happening, we have rain moving in. As we get into wednesday afternoon and evening, temperatures now coming down by thursday morning. The system is gonna stick around for a few days. Thursday morning im picking up a few bits of moisture. Patchy drizzle, mostly cloudy thursday morning and thursday will be a cool day as well. Im could that role it through im gonna role it through thursday afternoon and were on the back side of it and we are warming it up for the weekend. Upper 60s expected for sausalito. Low 90s for antioch and brentwood. The onshore breeze will be strengthening and it could be breezy for some. 80 degrees for san jose. Up along the peninsula, 68 san bruno. 64 for San Francisco. Low 60s, daly city, pacifica. Partly to mostly cloudy skies for you. The extended forecast here. Again showing you quite a drop in temperatures. Even though were talking about the possibility of maybe some drizzle, i think the cool, breezy weather will be more note worthy for most of us. Upper 70s in the forecast for wednesday, thursday. And then as we get into your bay area weekend with it always in view, temperatures are coming back. Were in the upper 80s on saturday. Mid to upper 90s perhaps by sunday. 96 sounds pretty warm. Yes. Big jump. Thank you. For years people have been told to make sure they get another vitamins in their diet. Why a new report says cereal packed with nutrients and vitamins may be bad for children. Stocks are down in afternoon trading. Sales of new home rose to the highest level. And u. S. Consumers are confident since january after the Great Recession began. The dow is down 122. The nasdaq is down 18. And the s p down 12. Apples next generation iphone 6 is scheduled to begin being built in china next month according to bloomberg news. The new report also says a phone with a 4. 7inch screen will definitely go into a production but there are conflicting reports on when the 5. 5inch screen will be produced. Some analysts think both phones will be made at the same time and bloomberg reports that shipments will be built in september. Kids who dig into a bowl of vitamin fortified breakfast cereal may be getting too much of a good thing. Thats what a new report out today says. According to the report by the environmental working group. Millions of children are ingesting potentially unhealthy amounts of vitamin a zinc and niocin. The reason for the excessive intake all three are added into cereals and amounts calculated for adults. Oakland police passed the torch this morning for the Northern California special olympics. Newschopper2 was overhead as the ceremony of flags went up outside of the Police Department. Chief sean whent took the torch from the member of the Alameda County District Attorneys Office and carried the deutsche up broadway to 40th where he passed it to someone from the emoryville Police Department. The torch run helps raise fund for the special olympics. We are just weeks away from the Ribbon Cutting at levi stadium. Tonight were getting a sneak peek of the new home of the 49ers woo. s shown you the stadium as it is being built. Now we get a look inside now that the stadium is done thats tonight at 5 00. 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