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Debora villalon live now at oakland where the mystery first began. Reporter he was dropped off for a business appointment here in downtown oakland on tuesday morning. His family became frantic when he blew it off. Now they have a new clue to where he went next. We love him a lot. Reporter the family says this photo from instagram shows 73yearold john back in San Francisco on the coastal trail near lands and. They say it was snapped about noon tuesday. Just a few hours after back got on park and left oakland. It brings daughter laura to tears. The family has spread missing posters as far south as san jose searching hospitals, police stations, shelters. Now they say they will focus on the point lobos area and its trails which they say he knew well from going up in San Francisco. My dad is a very reliable person. He goes where he says. He doesnt hes never done anything like this. Very unusual. Hes an amazing grandfather and a really solid, good, decent person. The amazing secrets found in his free and clear real estate system. Reporter john beck the family man seems a far cry from the businessman. These widely seen infomercials which promised easy money in real estate made beck rich and gotten sued by the federal trade commission. He was peddling a 39 39. 95 system but the court found it all a scam and beck filed bankruptcy with a judgment of 113 million against him. Its been going on for four years. Reporter beck was not hopeless about his situation and there was nothing in the case to make him despondent. They understand his past might make some people unsympathetic. Yeah. He had this issue, but the main thing were focused on is finding him and getting him back. Reporter they emphasize beck is a devoted grandfather. The full support of the family for 40 years. He is the family man. Reporter now even faced with the seizure of his house in alameda as well as other properties theres a john beck remained steady. We always know exactly where my dad is. You could set a watch off of his schedule. Hes always i called him and he picks up on the first ring. Reporter it also opens up the possibility he skipped town or staged his own disappearance. What his daughter refuses to believe that. He wouldnt leave us like that. He wouldnt hop on a plane and go hide somewhere. I cant even express how much my dad would not do Something Like that. Reporter a Police Report was filed in alameda in this missing persons case. John beck reportedly had little money on him, he has not used any credit cards or his cell phone. His family says he left his passport behind. So deborah, any idea where the search goes next . Reporter the family plans to focus on that plans an area at daylight tomorrow. Debora villalon, reporting live tonight in oakland, thank you. Temperatures unseasonably warm on this valentines day, a great day to get outside and it turned into a gorgeous night. A live look from our roof camera overlooking the oakland estuary. Lets go to mark tamayo who has the latest. Temperatures a good 6 to 16 degrees above average for february 14. Even a tied record out towards san rafael, 78 degrees, but widespread 70s over a good portion of the bay area from San Francisco, Mountain View, san jose, morgan hill, even oakland, upper 70s. Same for santa rosa and napa. On the satellite, not too much in the way of overcast. A few high clouds approaching the bay area. More earlier today, those have been sitting out, that will set the stage for a mostly sunny and warm to hot monday as you talked about here, very nice sunday evening across the bay area, temperatures have been warming up steadily over the past few days. That trend will continue into monday. For tomorrow, talking about a few low eighties across parts of the bay area for santa rosa, 81. San francisco 76. Oakland 80. San jose in the upper 70s. Coming up, a closer look at the forecast highs in your neighborhood for tomorrow. Also talk about rain chances on the longrange weather maps. The full forecast coming up at 10 35. Police swarmed around the scene of a double homicide in a popular bay area tourist spot. Christien kafton tells us San Francisco Police Continue to look for the shooter who fired bullets on twin peaks. Reporter San Francisco police were at the top of twin peaks early responding to reports of shots fired shortly after 2 00 a. M. Arriving officers discovered three men who had been shot. One young man was already dead. Emergency workers rushed a 22 yearold to the hospital where he died and an 18yearold is still hospitalized with life threatening injuries. Investigators are not releasing much information about the shooting, but they are saying the men appear to have been targeted by one man who fired the shots and fled the scene immediately after. At this point theres no description of the suspect but there are several broadcasting antennas on top of twin peaks and surveillance cameras in the area. Its unclear if the attack was captured by one or more of those cameras. Hundreds of tourists brought their own cameras to twin peaks trying to capture the spectacular view. None had heard there was they were standing yards away from the scene of this mornings double homicide. Two homicides . Wow. Thats crazy. Reporter ray ramos, jr. And his family were visiting from gilroy. Despite this public sentiment violence can happen anywhere, anytime. Neighborhoods i grew up in, i grew up where shootings happened almost every week. Looking around, its very public here. So many people out here enjoying this. Im thinking, how did that happen . Reporter heather lin is visiting from nevada city, celebrating her mothers 90th birthday. She is shocked such Violent Crime could happen in such a public area. I grew up here, this is a little lovers lane, you would come up here on a date after a movie. There would be tons of people up here. Thats many years ago but i cant imagine its different. So how did Something Like that occur here . Reporter San Francisco police are asking for public health, anyone who knows anything about the shootings come forward. Again San Francisco police saying he believed this was a targeted case that the gunman was targeting the three individuals were shot. This was not a random case of violence. In San Francisco, christien kafton, fox 2 news. The search continues for the cause of a fire that tore through a home in benicia. Flames broke out on casey court around 7 30 last night. No one was home at the time but there were three dogs inside. One of them died. Firefighters say the two others are missing. The house sustained significant damage. Investigators in sever cisco are working to determine the cause of a threealarm fire last night on fulton near usf. The fire injured a child and more than a dozen people are out of their homes tonight. Two homes were damaged, it took crews more than an hour to bring the fire under control. 11yearold boy cut his foot while getting out of the house. The red cross is helping people displaced by the fire. Officers are finding because about a traffic and accident in san jose. A car crashed into a pole and a man who had been shot behind the wheel. The car struck a pole on me amonte near Pioneer High School just before 4 00. The victim has not been identified. No arrests have been made. The man mightve been fired upon by someone driving by in another vehicle but the circumstances remain unclear. Santa clara county is partnering with the centers for Disease Control in an effort to try to prevent teen suicide. Members of the cdc will spend the next two weeks conducting a study on suicidal behavior among young people. The move comes back after four palo alto teens took their own lives. The study will track risk factors and preventive measures that can be implemented in the county. Remembrances continue to pour in for Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. The conservative jurist died of a heart attack yesterday at a ranch in texas. He was 79. Current Supreme Court justices recall scalia as a towering intellect, a man of deep faith and devoted to his family. The debate over scalias successor has ignited a political fight thats also shifted the president ial race. As stacy stickles reports, the battle over who would replace him and who gets to choose is raging on. Flags at half staff sunday in honor of Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. From the Supreme Court chambers to the texas ranch where he died saturday, on a hunting trip, late sunday scalias body left texas for virginia. Im quite confident that law students will be reading Justice Scalia opens a century from now. Reporter at the highest court, colleagues are offering praise for scalia who they called me know. Liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg saying she and her colleague were quote, best buddies for more than 30 years. In the meantime, Justice Scalias passing leaves the Supreme Court split between liberals and conservatives. That is fueling a political fight. President obama says he plans to nominate a justice to fill the vacancy and democrats say they support that, however, republicans say a new appointment should wait for a new president. Right in the middle of a president ial campaign. And somebody is going to win that and the person who wins that is going to have the right to replace Justice Scalia, whether a democrat or republican. It is outrageous that republicans in the senate and on the campaign trail have already pledged to block any replacement that president obama nominates. Reporter his death leaves conservatives without a key vote that could impact some major cases before the high court. The white house says president obama will not introduce a nominee this week but rather, when the Senate Returns from recess. Officials here in texas say it appears Justice Scalia died of quote, natural causes. In el paso, texas, casey steel, fox news. The Sierra Snowpack above average at last check but warm temperatures are causing snow to melt faster and earlier than expected. 11 year dry spell ends at pebble beach, well have highlights from todays stunning win. Next, well speak with a local filmmaker who has two movies coming to tv soon. An east bay filmmaker who has produced more than 20 documentaries has two new films coming to dvd. Doug harris grew up in berkeley and focused his attention on sports figures. Lately hes been branching out. Doug joins us now from the newsroom. One of your films is called basketball guru. It is about legendary usf and cal basketball coach pete newell. Everyone wants to know, why did you choose him as a subject . Pete newells documentary came about from a short film that i was doing about usf, the history of usf basketball. And usf history begins with pete newell. And so that project pretty much morphed into a story about his life, because no one had ever produced a documentary about pete newell, and he probably has the most brilliant mind in the history of the game of basketball. And he won the mit while at usf. He won the pac eight championship while he was at cal. He had the winningest record against john wooden at ucla. A lot of fascinating information but he really became a legend way beyond the call college ranks, didnt he . One of the things he is most noted for his whats called the big mans camp. This is a camp where he trained some of the greatest nba centers and forwards of all time. He would work with these players in the summer time and it was just a Great Program that he ran every summer. All right. So i know theyre working on a couple of other projects. One documentary is about Byron Rumford, a name many of us are not familiar with but he was one of the first black members of the California Assembly and led the charge to change housing rights for minorities. So why did you choose him . I didnt choose Byron Rumford. The project chose me. My mother, gloria nelson, she insisted that i take a break from some of the sports documentaries and focus on a wonderful, wonderful civil rights pioneer from my hometown in berkeley. So i had been working on that project for the last three years. And it finally made its way to the airwaves. And im happy about the film, because its my its actually my first pbs broadcast. What was most surprising when you were researching that . The most surprising thing about him . Well, the most surprising thing about Byron Rumford was the fact that its alleged they stole the election from him when he ran for state senate in 1966. That was actually the most difficult part of the documentary to break down, how that election was supposedly rigged up and he lost that election and it was a bad situation. But Byron Rumford is revered in California Assembly. And also in the berkeley and oakland communities. So im very proud of the fact i got a chance to document his story. Youve done a lot of projects. Whats next . Well, next im working on sports again. Were going into baseball. And were going to be working on a project called called up, the story of ashford, Major League Baseballs first black umpire. And this year when the season starts, well be celebrating the 60th excuse me, 50th anniversary of when Emmett Ashford came to the major leagues from the Pacific Coast league. Doug, you pick some topics that a lot of people just arent familiar with. But they are so important because theres a lot of groundbreaking civil rights work that you are discussing. Its fascinating stuff. Real quick, tell us when people can see the pete newell story and the Byron Rumford story. The pete newell basketball guru, the pete newell story will be aired on wednesday, on wednesday, february 24 at 7 00. Immediately after the Golden State Warriors versus the miami heat game on comcast sportsnet. There should be some people watching that. Yeah. Thank you very much. To find out more about all your projects, you have a website, www. Www. Dougharrismedia. Com. People can check it all out. Theres a lot of fascinating stuff there. Doug harris, thank you for coming in. We appreciate it. Thank you. The middle of february, talking about temperatures in the 80s across parts of the bay area. The high clouds heading way up to our north, the main storm track is rotating around this big circulation, thats an area of High Pressure offshore that has been warming us up. That will continue to warm us up into monday. Closer look at the satellite still, partly cloudy skies across parts of the bay area, tracking high clouds, chloe sent this nice picture from clear lake, sunrise with partly cloudy conditions, has been a very warm valentines day across the bay area. We are expecting another round of warm temperatures as we head towards your monday. 40s and 50s to start out the day tomorrow morning, partly cloudy skies, santa rosa 49, concord 49, morgan hill 47, San Francisco lower 50s, 52 degrees. Here is the plan for tomorrow, as you can see, not too much in the way of cloud cover. Then expecting mostly sunny skies into the afternoon and lots of 70s out there. That yellow contour links up to the 70s and a few oranges showing up, thats in the 80s. Eventual temperature range tomorrow afternoon, 70 to 80 degrees, temperatures above average, we could be talking about records as well. Ill step out of the way, san rafael, that 80 could be a record at that if that verifies. San francisco could be tying a record. San jose, possibly getting close to that 80 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. Could be a couple degrees shy. Everybody above the average, we could be talking about a string of records for monday. Another warm day into tuesday, but then finally, talking about a system that could bring rain clouds, well talk more about that with the timing of your fiveday forecast coming up at about 10 35. A rose is a rose, americans expected to spend billions on flowers, cards and candy. We will go inside the business of making beautiful bouquets. And bill fonzie will join us with highlights from the highest scoring nba allstar game of all time. Usic sex machine by james brown looking here at the number of points scored, first quarter, 4043. Grenade, crazy nba allstar game. Its an exhibition. The word defense was not used today at all. The nba allstar game has been more of an exhibition than a win loss competition. This he was game took that concept to a new level. The warriors with draymond green, Klay Thompson and steph curry in the ga, the first time the warriors have had three allstars in 40 years. Curry known for his shooting, not so much for his dunking. He puts one down here off the feed from kevin durant. This was the final allstar game for kobe bryant who is calling it quits at the end of the season. Watch this one, on the way to a 10 point game. It was showtime all night. Curry lurking, stealing the inbounds pass assisting to his teammate, green. The west had a 9290 lead at halftime. More of this aim it second half. Curry makes like a girl like a globetrotter, feeds russell westbrook. Westbrook was the games mvp. Are you ready for the final score . West winds with a record final of 196173. The routine of the regular season returns for the warriors on friday when they resume at portland. With a two with a two stroke lead, Phil Mickelson was the favorite to win the pebble beach proam for the fifth time in his career. No one was talking about Vaughn Taylor who only found out on monday that he was in the tournament as an alternate. Weather was perfect for the super bowl and the at t. Taylor who had not won into her in 11 years began the basic strokes off the lead. Then he got really hot, approach to 15, taylor would make four straight birdies on the back nine, caps that one. Than his 16, tailormade the putt of the day. At this point he moved into the tournament lead by one stroke. Taylor is happy about his fourth straight birdie. A few holes behind, mickelson was in contention. For birdie at 13, now hes within a stroke of the lead. Taylor can just about lock up the tournament if he makes one more birdie at 18. Becomes that close. Settles for a round of 65. Then he had to wait, mickelson running out of holes, he drains this birdie to pull within a stroke. Taylor can only watch the champion, then get himself in position for a birdie at 18 to pull even. Make this and they are in a playoff. Mickelson lips it out, Vaughn Taylor has his first win since the reno tahoe open in 2005, ranked 447th in the world coming in, taylor cannot only celebrate this win but also the fact he is eligible to play in this years masters. Final leaderboard, taylor by a stroke or mickelson, a couple of sweet next. Its been a season of adjustment for the stanford Womens Basketball team, accustomed to storming through the regular season. The cardinals hosting Arizona State ranked fourth in the national rankings. Stanford came from 17 down in the second half and forced overtime. The nice feed to in ot, the sun devils tied it, then at the buzzer, watch this. Sophie brunner beats the buzzer. Arizona state wins 6361. Stanford, 206 overall. The winds have been elusive for cal today. Cal in the valentines day pink uniforms. Callan changes that come with three of her 13 points. The big player in this one was freshman christine. She was a force inside, going 8 8 from the field, she would go on to score 24 points in all. The bears win 7556. Cal within one game of the. 500 mark overall at 1213. Lots more coming up at 11 00 on sports rep. A lot more of the allstar game. Well hear from some of the other festivities of the weekend. Looking forward to that. World leaders in germany, cya former u. S. Senator called comments hypocritical. On the campaign trail the death of dust Justice Scalia , adding more drama to the rest of the white house. Highway patrol is investigating two deadly crashes overnight. The first crash happened about 1 00 this morning on highway 1 near doran beach road into bodega bay. Two people were killed after their car crashed into a tree and burst into flames. Prelim in their investigation shows the vehicle was northbound on state route 1. It crashed it went off the roadway and crashed into a eucalyptus tree and caught fire. Both parties were pronounced deceased at the scene. Investigators say its too early to know exactly what caused the crash. Around the same time the chp says a motorcycle rider fleeing from officers lost control and crashed into a fence in sebastopol and that rider was killed. Were told Police Initiated the chase because the motorcycle had been reported stolen. To the race for the white house, candidates on both sides still talking about last nights fiery ghp gop debate. As Kristen Fischer tells us, they are also getting into the political battle following the death of Justice Scalia. I was pleased with the debate. I was the only person that went after donald trump. Reporter fallout from saturday nights contentious gop debate. My mom is the first woman i know. When jeb gets up and says we were safe under his brother, we werent. He got us into the war in iraq which is one of the worst catastrophes ever. Reporter ted cruz versus marco rubio. In this campaign in the last few weeks, he has developed this disturbing pattern of telling things that arent true. He had an had pulled off the air because it lied about sanctuary cities and immigration. His record on immigration, and supporting amnesty, he just response telling lies. Reporter john kasich is trying to keep his momentum after his secondplace finish in New Hampshire by being the voice of reason. Its been my intent to be positive. Reporter the fight continues to win over minority voters in nevada and south carolina. If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, and i will if they deserve it, if they pose a systemic risk, i will. Would that end racism . Were going to surprise people in nevada and in south carolina. Reporter the death of Justice Scalia is now a major topic on the campaign trail. Both Democratic Candidates say president obama should nominate a new Supreme Court justice. The constitution is pretty clear. The president makes the appointment. The senate confirms. Lets get on with our business. Reporter republican candidates a new appointment should wait. One more liberal justice, the Second Amendment will be written out of the constitution. One more, the court will strike down every restriction on abortion. Reporter less than a week away from the republican primary in south carolina. The democratic cost and the Democratic Caucus in nevada. Kristen fischer, fox news. Crisis in syria dominated a meeting in munich. Western leaders seemed to have little faith that russia will respect a new ceasefire accord. Yesterday russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the world was slipping toward another cold war. That statement met with biting responses from drop and its allies. Former senator Joe Lieberman was part of the u. S. Delegation and called his comments hypocritical. He comes here and warns us, the west, that we shouldnt start another cold war. It was the russians who by their own actions still have troops in ukraine and also sent their troops into the middle east again. It is hoped the syrian cease fire plan will take effect early in the week. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder wants the federal government to expand medicaid coverage for some flint residents. Snyder has requested benefits for people under 21 and pregnant women. All who have been exposed to the citys lead contaminated water. 15,000 residents would benefit if the government approves his request. Lead from aging pipes leached into the water supply 18 months ago. The city is trying to raise 28 million for infrastructure upgrades. Even pope francis got a valentines day and spoke with children in mexico. The pontiff visited a Childrens Hospital where he found a little girl in a wheelchair who gave him a homemade card. That visit came after the pope celebrated a mass before more than 300,000 people in one of the roughest suburbs of mexico city. The pope chatted with children at the hospital and gave one boy some medicine from a dropper. Pope francis is due to travel to the southern mexican state tomorrow. The damn ball towns town council is considering a ban on shortterm resident their neighbors have built large additions to their homes specifically for airbnb type rentals. The rentals bring undesirable people into their neighborhoods, along with traffic and parking problems. Opponents of the bands hit the matter is a dispute between two neighbors, and that there are only 15 airbnb rentals in a town of 60,000 homes. The new ordinance would ban all rentals of less than 30 days. A few things brighten up valentins valentines day like bright flash flowers. Fresh flowers. At the flower mart, the cost for 25 red roses was about 35 40. Were told that is about the same as last year but florists say that tubes were also really popular this year and they can be quite less than roses. The flower mart was selling a bunch of tulips for just 6. 50. Men buy red roses. Thats the rule. They think all women want read. Usually women would rather have white or color or Something Like that. Tulips are always a big hit. Everything is in season right now. Hydrangea, its gorgeous. The future of the flower mart, you may remember was unclear for several years after developers ive property. It was sold last year but the owners reached an agreement with the tenants and wholesale market will stay at its Current Location on brandon street. The San Francisco flower mart is now one of only five wholesale flower markets left in the u. S. High temperatures causing a snow melt in the sierra but is it coming a little too early . What it means for our water supply. That warm up being felt in the bay area, boy, it looks like 70 degrees in the city stay. Mark tamayo is up next with details on your work week forecast. This valentines day brought recordsetting cold to parts of the east coast. In boston, temperatures dipped to nine degrees minus 9 degrees below zero. That would be nine degrees below zero. That broke an 81yearold record. Not everyone who went outside was happy about that. I think its absolutely awful. Kind of chilly. I do not love the cold. Im yearning for florida this time of year. Others said the cold weather was the perfect excuse to cuddle on valentines day. Forecasters say theres a good chance of snow tomorrow in new york city as well as in philadelphia. Different story here, warm temperatures in Northern California are causing snow melt in the sierra. As mitler he shows us, its producing spectacular gifts from mother nature. Reporter the snowmelt creating a spectacular water shower at bridal falls, along highway 50 in the sierra. Travelers stopped in their tracks to see this gift from mother nature. We were like, almost over there. We saw it and right away, my husband is like, lets stop. We almost hit a car. [ laughter ] reporter bridal falls was a virtual tourist trap. I like this place. Its beautiful. Reporter for some like charlotte bauer, the journey here brought back many good memories. My husband and i drove by here for many years. It was often a place where we stopped. It was a view a very beautiful place. Reporter higher at the 5000 foot mark, the road to the lake was nearly devoid of snow. Sharp contrast to the same location just three weeks ago. Before the snow began to melt. And near kuipers, white water rapids along the south fork of the american river. While its exciting to see all this fastmoving water because of the snowmelt, you have to remember the calendar says its only midfebruary and not april which means we need a lot more snowpack in the months ahead. Its too bad that we are not having a little bit more el nino. We need a bit more. Hopefully in the next month or two, well get more el nino snow. Eventually, much of that will end up here at folsom lake which is the 117 of average for the date at roughly 63 of capacity. With more snowmelt on the way. The warm temperatures, a big draw for everyone. Its a Beautiful Day for a drive to get outside. Havent been up to tahoe in years. So its a nice day to get out. Perfect day. Reporter a perfect day in the sierra. That was mike lurie reporting. You can feel the warmth up here, lets check in with mark tamayo, couldnt believe it today, Walking Around the city, it was hot. 70. Sweating out there. Walking around this afternoon. Tomorrow, even warmer. So get ready for that. By midweek, it will feel like windsor winter once again. With rain and sierra snow, they could pick up to close to a foot in the mountains by wednesday. On the satellite, a big circulation out here, thats a big area of High Pressure thats pushing the main storm track up to our north and also warming up the entire bay area. A closer look at the satellite, the winds coming in out of the north, we are expecting some gusty conditions in the hills and also toward the delta for tonight and into tomorrow morning with the northerly flow in place. Right now, scattered high clouds across parts of the region, look at some of the current numbers out there as we come in closer, right now 59 in san jose, Mountain View 62, San Francisco 57, i had to check on the fairfield temperature, 71 degrees. All because of that wind i mentioned. Out towards fairfield, sustained at 18, gusting to 28 miles an hour. More wind reports a bit of a breeze towards santa rosa, so locally, breezy tonight and into your monday morning. Outside right now, partly cloudy skies for your sunday night, overnight lows in the 40s and 50s to start out the day, thats going to set the stage for a fairly warm day. Look at San Francisco, 7 00 a. M. , mid50s. Sky cast, lots of sunshine to the afternoon hours. Lunchtime, easily back up to the 70s and mostly clear skies. 6 00 p. M. Come back down into the 60s. The main source of warming is this big area of High Pressure offshore. Its going to stick around for monday. Even into tuesday. Next few days, warm but hot for this time of year. Than the big change, as you seem to midweek, this front moves in and definitely a sharp dropoff in temperatures by wednesday. We will be talking about rain showers in the bay area as well by midweek. Our forecast model, mostly sunny skies for monday, taking this into tuesday, partly sunny, wednesday morning could be dry but then later in the day, by late in the afternoon, bump up those rain chances, rainfall in the bay area could range between a quarter of an inch to three quarters up in the north bay. Look at these numbers for tomorrow, lots of 70s, a few 80s sprinkled. Look at that 80 showing up in oakland, livermore 78. San jose upper 70s. Gilroy, forecast high of 80. San francisco Walking Around, going to feel very warm with 76. A look ahead, fiveday forecast, still warm on tuesday. A few extra high clouds, then rain developing into wednesday. Chance of showers into thursday, a slight chance in the north bay for friday. Upcoming weekend looks like it will be dry. So heather and ken, mid february could be a beach day. Great. Thank you, mark. Did you see steph curry tonight . We can relive the awesome Half Court Shot with spore trap. Never gets old. Jason popple bomb and joe fonzi have a preview of whats coming up. Stephon curry dunks at the nba allstar game. The league pays tribute to kobe bryant one last time. A dramatic finish at the pro am involving Phil Mickelson and a player who had not won on the pga tour in 11 years. Its all tonight on sports wrap, at 11 00. Ba da ba ba ba the families of 74 sailors killed on a ship during the vietnam war say they are still in still fighting to get their loved ones recognized. They were aboard the uss Frankie Evans and died in support of the war effort but their names were never included on the vietnam war memorial in washington. Amber lee spoke with the family of one of those sailors who says their legacies are being forgotten. Reporter the turbulent 60s. Vietnam was an unpopular war. And protest raged across the country. It was a very painful time in our country. That pain hasnt stopped. Reporter for for larry riley and his uncle, that pain is still palpable as they step back in time pouring over old photos and newspaper clippings. June 3, 1969, a day they will never forget. Two family members were serving on the uss Frankie Evans. Lawrence senior and his 20year old son lawrence, jr. , an australian ship struck the destroyer slicing it in half. The father survived, the son lost at sea with other men. He left behind a young wife and a 14monthold son named after him. I never had my dad. My son will never have his grandfather. Thats painful. Reporter adding to their pain is that the names of the 74 sailors were never included on the vietnam war memorial in washington dc. The evans had seen combat providing gunfire support to u. S. Marines on the ground in vietnam but had traveled outside the official war zone to rearm and train. What i consider a very proud and long tradition of military service in the family, and i think it is dishonorable to the service of all the members of our family that my brothers name is not on that wall. Reporter the rileys suspect politics is behind the exclusion of the 74 men from the memorial wall. The United States government was unhappy about the fact that 74 guys got killed in one incident in 1969 at a time when there was a lot of antiwar sentiment in the United States. Reporter the rileys and families of the other man lost at sea say theyve contacted their congresspeople and written to the president for years without success. It has taken a long time. Im determined to stay with this until we succeed. Reporter california congressman adam schiff is working with families and while the secretary of the navy agrees the 74 men should be included, schiff says the final decision will come from the secretary of defense. And Available Space on the wall. That has been the primary holdup, but i think were seeing an increasing level of support, certainly in the congress. Reporter the rileys say this form letter from john mccain indicates another hold up. Funding. Its ridiculous. It makes me angry. They served their country. And they did it honorably. And they did it without complaint. For that, theyve been kicked in the teeth. Reporter lawrence scenes in lawrence, the father who survived, is now living in upstate new york. I would like my father to be able to go down there, trace my brothers name off the wall. Reporter that was amber lee reporting. The rileys end of the families hope that members of the public will write to their representatives, the president and the secretary of defense. They wont rest until their loved one has his rightful place on the vietnam war memorial. Just into the newsroom, a Memorial Service has been announced for Richmond Police officer augustine just vegas, the offduty officer killed last week during a domestic dispute as his at his vallejo home. The memorial will take place friday at the richmond memorial auditorium, in richmond. The service is open to the public and it starts at 10 00 a. M. We will bring you more information as it becomes available. You can get more information at group chatter dude, dude, dude. This is bad. I think were stuck. Were going to have to talk to each other or something. Nooo. I dont like this elevator. group surprised and laughter how did that feel . Was it fun being stuck . I do not like getting stuck so, the nissan leaf s only gets 84 miles on a charge. But the 2016 chevy volt gets an estimated 400 miles or more on a full charge and a full tank of gas. Woah hows that for not getting stuck . The San Mateo County courthouse was open this morning to perform valentines day weddings. Staffers and volunteers came to the courthouse on their usual day off to officiate 11 weddings today. The first couple who got married this morning has been together for 34 years but decided to finally make it official in order to grant the brides late father his dying wish. He always wanted us to get married and stuff. Unfortunately, he passed first. But were in his home and just feeling his love. And in his honor, we thought okay, lets do it. Valentines day is the best day of the year. The courthouse was open today from 9 00 to 2 00. County clerks usually officiate 1000 weddings every year. Hows this for a special valentines day gift . A High School Senior in utah gave every single girl at his high school a flower. 17yearold Hayden Godfrey saved up to buy 800 carnations for the girls at skyview high school. It cost him 450. He just wanted to make sure all of them went home happy last week. And godfreys girlfriend agreed. To watch every single one of those girls walk out of school with a big smile on their face, makes me very happy and proud of him. I dont think a girl should be left out during valentines day. I want to make as many people happy as possible. What a nice guy. Godfrey worked as a cook at several fast food restaurants to earn the 450 for those flowers. Thanks a lot. Set the bar high for the rest of us. And hes 17. [ laughter ] thank you for making ktvu your source for news. Sports wrap is up next. Lets get one like chest one last check of your forecast. Finally, some rain in the sierra by wednesday. Sounds good. Thanks. Well see you later and have a great weekend. The rest of it. Curry to the bucket. Coming up on sports wrap, three warriors in the nba all star game, a game that was not a clinic on how to play defense. A finish at pebble beach where the excitement almost matched the weather all week long. My heart is here. Tony bennett never sang about oakland. Raiders fans hope he doesnt think his heart there. Sports wrap starts right now. Good evening. Joe fonzi with jason applebaum, jason, i dont know

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