Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Mornings On 2 At 430am 20171115 :

KTVU KTVU Mornings On 2 At 430am November 15, 2017

You know it is rather quiet. I wanted to ask you tonight. This commute. May be in danger of not being one because of that heavy rain. That and the wind. Got it. All right. Here we go with the traffic on the vacaville, fairfield, vallejo commute. Looks good. You can see nothing so far but it is going to be okay driving across the bridge and when you get to the mcarthur maze this is the lowest time itll take you. 17 minutes, later in the morning we are talking about an hour, hour and a half to drive this same stretch. This is a look at the bay bridge toll plata. Traffic is looking good up to the pay gates. Lets go back to the desk. We continue to follow that deadly shooting yesterday. About 100 miles north of sacramento. The gunman killed four people before police shot and killed him. Ten other people including two children were shot and wounded by him. Investigators say that he was out on bail after being charged with stabbing a neighbor. They say he first shot two neighbors, stole a truck and then drove around shooting people at random, including shooting into an elementary school. His family says that he struggled with Mental Illness and he had a violent temper at times. They say that he should not have had guns. Alex sav aps on his way there now. He will have live reports for us throughout the morning right here on mornings on it 2. Many are questioning a late night tweet from the president. He returned to the white house late last night and sent a tweet at 11 34. He said may god be with the people of sutherland texas. The fbi and Law Enforcement have arrived. Many think he meant to say a different county. Its nearly the same to a tweet from november 5th. The Vice President said saddened to hear of the shooting in northern california. The loss of life and injuries including innocent children. We commend the coaster of brave Law Enforcement who continue to monitor the situation and provide federal support as we pray for comfort and healing for all impacted. We are still following sloping news from richmond where four people were shot near Hilltop Green park last night about 7 30. Now the police say that one of the victims has died. We have no information about the conditions of the other shooting victims but one person was airlifted to a hospital. Police say they are searching for suspects but they dont have descriptions or a motive for that shooting. A new policy for checking out officers use of force. The Police Supervisors and command s will now be expected to investigate nearly every violent encounter involving officers. Each incident will be graded on a four tier scale. More violent incidents will receive more scrutiny. In the past it was only investigated when someone filed a complaint. The police chief said he worked with the police union on drafting this new policy. He acknowledges a more complete oversight could lead to more of his officers being reprimanded. Correctional officers at Santa Clara County are saying that the changes at the county jail are putting them in danger. The union filed an unfair labor practices complaint saying that the Sheriffs Office did not give the guards notice about changes at the county jail. One change allows large numbers of inmates to exercise together. The union said that creates a danger because gang members often work out together as a show of force. A sheriff issued this response to that complaint. As sheriff i along with our new chief of corrections am committed to ensuring the safety of all staff anden search august that inmates treated fairly. Bruce maxwell has plead not guilty to assault charges. He was arrested in scottsdale arizona last month. Thats after a woman who was delivering food to him said that he pointed a gun at her. Maxwell faces charges of assault with a Deadly Weapon and disorderly conduct. He is currently out on bail and due back in court on december 28th for a pretrial conference. Three ucla basketball player who were detained in china and suspected of shoplifting there could face discipline action by the university. The three flew back to los angeles last night after a 12 hour flight. They were arrested last week allegedly for shoplifting sunglasses at a store which in china could result in a prison sentence of up to ten years. During his trip the president personally appealed to the president of china to look in to the case and help the players avoid going to jail. He has been great. The president has been great on that subject. There was not a good subject. Thawiest not something that should have happened. Larry scott released a statement thanking the president , the white house and the United States state department for their efforts toward the resolution. Uc las chancellor said they are considering its options conditioning punishment for the students. Some Business Owners calling on the city to take action on a homeless camp they say is bringing drugs and trash to their streets. That camp is located near interstate 880 and high street and christina has the report. Reporter in just a few seconds its easy to count multiple needles littering 45th avenue in oakland. A man who doesnt want to be identified works on this street and said that he worries about letting his children get out of the capacity when they come to the business. So many times i come in the morning and i see needles just spewing all over the street. We have to get them and put them inside plastic bottles and try to figure out a way to get rid of them. Reporter next door another Business Owner also unwilling to be identified is fed up with what he called the drug use and drug deals associated with the homeless camp on the frontage road. The cars come up and they will stop in the middle of the street. They put their hazards on or their hoods up like the car is broken down. They get out and buy drugs and they get back in the car and drive away again. Reporter he said people go through an opening in a fence and cross under 880 to get to the homeless tents on the other side. Thats where the agricultured drug deals are taking place. This video was taken last week. They dont care. You say you will call police and take pictures of their vehicles and they say that big deal. Call the police. Nobody is scared of the police. They know nobody will do nipping. Reporter they say they call the police and california Highway Patrol and get the run around. Buck keeps getting passed back and forth. Nobody wants to help. They have a real concern to be safe for their business. Safe in their travels. Reporter a lieutenant with the california Highway Patrol in oakland said these concerns will not go ignored. Chp plans to work with Oakland Police and caltrans to address the illegal activity. We will meet with them, come up with an organizational plan to not just push it from one jurisdiction to another. That we Work Together to come up with a solution to this problem. Reporter its something that employees and Business Owners say is needed. I would like to see the city come in and care about this place. We have been here for 44 years in this location. Something should be done to prevent it from getting to this point and something should be done immediately, now to stop it. Reporter Oakland Police sent us this statementt. Reads quality of life issues and illegal activity are a shared concern of all city agency and our community. We work with the city camp management team, businesses and Community Neighborhoods as well as our Law Enforcement partners to address quality of life concerns and illegal activity. We also reached out to caltrans. A spokesman said that a homeless camp sweep is scheduled for next week and the fence will be fixed too. Fox 2news. In richmond there will be another option for Affordable Housing designed to deal with the growing homeless problem. Each unit is a 160 square foot living space with a kitchen, bathroom and bed. They can be stacked up to eight stories high. The city of richmond is teaming up with contra costa. They plan to use them to move the homeless into supportive housing. Officials still in the early stages of planning and they are looking for a location for the units. Thats why i think this is Ground Breaking because it leads to a more affordable single unit and that is a choice for people who are homeless who and will need services along with it. Officials say that the rent would mostly be paid for by a grant from the department of housing and urban development. We have new details from that lawsuit filed by the family of the boy injured at a dublin water park. The boys family is seeking two and a half Million Dollars from the wave water park which is run by the city of dublin. Thats after he flew off one of the water slides and fell on to the concrete on the water parks opening day back in may. When you take your kid to a park you expect its going to be a safe place. We expect our governments to hold manufacturers and subcontractors act accountable. Reporter the families lawsuit names the city of dublin, the state of california and the manufactureer of the slide white water west industries. The city of dublin said it had been trying to reach a settlement with the family prior to that lawsuit being filed. San francisco still debating guidelines for the sale of marijuana. Details about new zoning restrictions ahead of the legalizing. Also the latest efforts to entice customers to come back to the santa rosa downtown area after the devastating wildfires. Good morning. You can see traffic is doing pretty well in many areas. This is a live look at 280 in san jose. Its looking good. Our weather is looking good for rain. Not to much right now. There is light rain but itll pick up. Not only that but the wind. Later though, not so much this morning. The light rain. We will talk about that and all the warnings and watches. Welcome back. Tonight a Community Meeting will be held to get public input on a stormwater collapse to manage Flood Control in and erosion in parts of the north bay. Several inches of rain are expected from this new storm. Officials want input on how to deal with the areas around the river and sonoma creek. Both meetings will be from 5 30 to 7 00 p. M. The meet one will be held at the river heritage center, the other at the Sonoma Community center. Cal fire said the rainy season and cooler weather means we are officially transitioning out of peak fire season. The change affects lake, yolo, sonoma. Cal fire said itll continue to maintain staffing will monitor conditions so its ready in case another fire does break out. Business in santa rosa slowly beginning to get better after the wildfires but the city is considering making changes in order to get more shop s back into the area. Store owners say that they dont have nearly as many customers as they did before the wildfires but say they wont start worrying until after thanksgiving. Now the city is looking at a plan to try to lure more people to go back downtown including making some of the parking garages free for the first hour with reduced rates. Making attractive for people to come down. If they dont have to worry about parking and they will have a much more enjoyable experience. The city said that those changes for parking rates could start the day after thanksgiving which is the traditional start of the Holiday Shopping season. You just made a good point. Other cities should do that. They should. San rafael does that and i think larkspur does and marin where they give you free parking for a while to encourage you to shop locally which is nice. Its a good idea. Lot of people go to the malls because of the free parking. At least thats what i have heard from other people. They say i can just park in the mall and not worry about it. All right. Right now, if you may be worrying about what the commute looks like lets talk about 580 westbound through the pass. See some slow traffic also on 205 as well. Its going to be slow and this is usually the time when it starts getting very slow. If you get on the freeway in livermore it looks good. No problems this morning on vasco road. You may be more sensitive to that after what happened yesterday. Traffic continues to look good on interstate 880 in oakland. Both directions here in front of oracle. At the bay bridge we are experiencing a little built of slow traffic. Cloudy with rain developing. Most of the morning commute some light rain. The line is about San Francisco, oakland. About about there is not a lot to the south of that. More show than go. It may take a while. Its been a couple 100ths up to lake. We are waiting on this system here. Its an afternoon evening, overnight into tomorrow event heret. Will be some very good rain. There is a lot to work with. There could be isolated areas to two to four inches. Up wind will kick up later. Wind advisory and a Flash Flood Watch out for sonoma county, napa county, parts of marin. It looks like a good system. There is a lot going for it and i will show you why. It could be some two and a half, three inches of. Wind advisory starts later. Not to bad right now. Again its mainly about six tonight until midnight which is prime time for the system. Because of the burn areas we have Flash Flood Watch. It goes until two. That is an idea of the heaviest rain looks to becoming in later. Not so much this morning. The sierra nevada. Winter storm warning kicks in at ten and goes through four friday. Isolated areas projected of five to eight inches of winter precipitation. A lot of this in the raint. Wont turnover to late tonight, tomorrow unless you are above some of the passes. Eventually by tomorrow itll start to lower that snow level to below six thousand feet. A lot of the radar returns showing more rain and isolated rain. Maybe amador. Up there, more rain than snow for right now if you are going up that way. To the north rain will increase. Itll take a while here. The south it may take until late their afternoon or tonight. Into tomorrow morning. The system is a lot of deep moisture. Itll continue to deepen. Itll funnel a lot of this toward us. A pretty good jet stream around five to ten thousand feet that will enhance the up slope. Getting some of those bulls eyes amounts. 40s, 50s on the temperatures. Most of this rain will start tonight and then go into tomorrow morning. There will be some in advance of it but should be light but will pick up. The full system moves through which wont be until thursday, probably afternoon. Some of the rainfall certainly up in the sierra. Flash flood watch. We will watch that. At least through friday. We have above friday and saturday. Another system late sunday. We will deal with that on friday. A lot of cloud cover and the wind picking up. 60s on the temperatures. Thats not the big issue today. Could be on the mild side. That southeast wind. Gilroy. Cloudy, rain and then it picks up later this afternoon, tonight into thursday morning. Then breezy and very cool friday, saturday. We will get ready. Thank you. 4 50 is time. Alaska will stop flying to havanna after demand dropped and new restrictions were placed on travel. They started flying in january but said its last flight is planned for january 22nd. United states airlines started flying last year after the Obama Administration let up long time limits on travel. Low demand has led several carriers to end or reduce service including american, southwest, spirit, frontier and silver airways. The bank el little he will repossessed vehicles of 450 Moore Service members. Now its more than 860. The department of justice said wells fargo agreed to pay for the illegal seizures. The law requires banks to get a court order before they repossess a car from members of the military. The Justice Department previously charged wells fargo in september of 2016 with the illegally seeing more than 400 cars owned by military members. Wells fargo also has agreed to repair the credit of the Service Members and pay each ten thousand dollars, plus any lost equit, why in y in the vehicle with interest. A local frozen food product play be contaminateds. The recall. Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. Welcome back. Its the start of the commercial crab fishing season. Crab boats left the docks at six last night. They were allowed to they are not allowed to pull in their traps until six this morning. Crabbers say there should be plenty of fresh crab in time for thanksgiving. That is a bay area holiday tradition. Its the first time in several year that the crab season has opened up on time up and down the coast. Its been delayed the last two years because of toxins. An east Bay Food Company has recalled one of its frozen chicken products because it may be contaminated with bacteria. The gourmet india food said that no illnesses have been connected to the product but one sample tested positive for possible conanymore nation and that led to the recall. This product is sold at several Bay Area Grocery Stores including safeway, whole foods and luck yips. Two San Francisco supervisors are proposing new legislation saying that helping renters fight being evictedt. Would guarantee Legal Counsel to low income tenants facing no fault eviction. They say the legislation would cost San Francisco almost 4 million. The legislation is expected to be introduced in the next couple weeks. The San Jose City council vote late last night to cap yearly rent increases. The

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