good morning. thank you for waking up with us. it s thursday february 3rd. i m pam cook. let s check in with steve paulson for a little weather this morning. hi, pam. mostly clear skies. few high clouds, patchy fog. another cold morning. we ve lost the wind at least at the surface. temperatures in the 30s and 40s will end up with sunshine but because we re starting so much colder than yesterday highs today will be slightly cooler. but still lots of sunshine low to mid-60s. now here s sal. steve, right now traffic is moving well on highway 4 westbound getting up to the willow pass grade with no major problems. also if you re driving on interstate 880 here in oakland so far so good with the traffic light. 4:31. let s go back to pam. we re following overnight news involving more than 56 sick bay area school kids. last night they were sent home after becoming ill at an outdoor education camp in a remote area of marin county. ktvu s kraig debro joins us now from novato where
i m tori campbell. i m mike mibach. dave clark is off. it s thursday, february 3rd. we begin with the story that s still unfolding in san francisco. right now crews are on the scene of three separate fires in the castro district just blocks apart. claudine wong has been talking with investigators to see if the fires are connected. reporter: good morning, tori. yes, that s the big question out here. three fires. this is 17th and harvard. the other two fires are a couple blocks away. all fires are out at this hour. but you can see there is still a lot of activity and arson investigators are gonna be very busy trying to figure out if all of these fires are connected. certainly, firefighters are very suspicious. let s talk about this fire first. this is video of the firefight as it was underway. in the last several months, i took to firefighters and they said the fire got into all three floors of the floors of the building. no one lived in the building. i want to show y
at an outdoor school and retreat in marin county and had to be sent home. the children were visiting from three elementary schools in the east bay. they have been staying at the walker creek ranch. it s a campus of the marin county office of education just outside petaluma. the flu-like symptoms developed in the afternoon. we had some kind of viral flu bug go where students were getting sick to their stomach and mainly vomiting, maybe a little bit of diarrhea, but it spread pretty quick, particularly through some cabins. as a precaution, other kids with no symptoms were sent home, as well. the outdoor school principal says the source of the illness hasn t been pinpointed, but that it apparently originated from a single cabin. right now, the egyptian military is rounding up journalists after they came under attack from supporters of president hosni mubarak. meanwhile, the united nations is evacuating hundreds of its employees as violent confrontations continue between pr
a family found five or six grenades in a paper bag in san francisco earlier today. police responded to that potrero hill neighborhood around 8:00 this morning. they couldn t determine if those grenades were real or fake so they called in bomb technicians and shut down streets in the area. what we re understanding, the owner of the building was a 92-year-old man that passed away sometime ago and the family was now cleaning out the garage of all his personal effects. the bomb squad robot gathered the grenades and took them away. no word if they were real. police dogs sniffed the garage to make sure there were no other devices. the surrounding streets are back open now after being shut down for about two hours. three fires very close to each other and around the same time, they were in san francisco s castro district this morning. and investigators have their suspicions. christin ayers with what investigators have come up with so far. christin. reporter: red cross offici