robbery and attempted kidnapping in eugene, oregon. >> my last words to ricky were two weeks ago and my last words as i told ricky, i said i wish we could clone 30 more view. he said the world was not ready for that. >> ricky del fiorentino was a graduate of napa high school. he had 26 years of law enforcement experience, 16 years with mendocino county and ten with fort bragg police department. the suspect is being identified as ricardo cheney of oregon. he stole bmw and force the driver into the trunk. a frightening ordeal for one peninsula woman who walked through her front door as her home was being burglarized. police are on the hunt for the culprit who tied her up and raided her bank account. >> the cameras at this bank of america here at el camino and third captured pictures of a suspect who held a woman at gunpoint for more than 24 hours. police say he withdrew thousands of dollars from her account. san mateo police say this is the man they're looking for. investigators say on monday he was burglarizing a home on edmund street when the 66-year- old woman who lived there return home while he was still there. >> the suspects are looking for unoccupied homes. we know that in this case there appears to be an element of surprise with the victim came home and found someone in her residence. >> san mateo police say the burglar tie the woman up at gunpoint demanded her atm card and left the home several times to make withdrawals from a number of banks. police say he is about 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, medium build with medium length hair with a wave at the end. >> in these photographs it appears the suspect is trying to disguise himself somewhat. so the lower half of his face is obscured however it is a pretty clean picture of the upper part of his face. >> the victim tells police that yesterday afternoon about 24 hours after she initially encountered the suspect he finally said he was leaving for good. after he left she freed herself made to a friends house and called 911. the woman has been checked out at an area hospital and seems to be doing okay. bank customers say they hope this is not an indication of a growing trend. >> it looks like they're going after people's banking than just what is in the house. >> police tell me they are still investigating the case and looking for evidence from other banks around town. and despite his efforts to hide his face they believe that someone who knows the suspect should be able to identify him. a city worker discovered a man stabbed to death this morning near san jose saint james park. the worker was pressure cleaning the street near north second and eastst. john street just before 3:00 a.m. police have talked to was to says and are trying to see if surveillance video may have captured the killing. a lot of homeless people hang out in st. james park but don't know if the victim was one of them. the santa clara county da dropped murder charges against a homeless man who said he stabbed a 16-year-old in self- defense. this happened sunday in john d morgan park in campbell. in an interview yesterday todd phelps said the team he killed, ivan diaz was one of five young men who attacked him. police say the attack might have been gang related and are hoping to relocate phelps because they fear for his safety. fire fighters are investigating the cause of the two alarm fire that badly damage to homes this afternoon. flames broke out about 3:00 p.m. today, news chopper to was overhead as the fire spread to a second home. crews battled the flames from the ground and roof. one house was destroyed, the other badly damaged. san jose fire fighters say electrical wiring added to the danger today as they put out a fire at a marijuana grow house. the fire started about 8:45 a.m. east of interstate 680 near the san jose country club. fire fighters say the marijuana growers had read wired the house and fire fighters could not turn off the power. they believe the wiring started the fire. toyota's problems with stuck accelerators. attorney general eric holder announced a $1.2 billion settlement with toyota. he said it is the largest ever penalty imposed on an automaker. in return for the settlement the government suspended a criminal case against the japanese car company. >> simply, toyota's conduct was shameful. it showed a blatant disregard for systems and laws designed to look after the safety of consumers. >> at least five deaths have been blamed on the sudden acceleration. in the settlement, toyota admitted to misleading consumers. initially blamed drivers. toyota still faces hundreds of private lawsuits. we spoke with one bare area woman who assert the same problem affected her car and eventually caused a terrifying crash. >> in 2009, this woman had a scary accident and her 2006 previous. >> i am so lucky. >> with her daughter behind the wheel it took us to the crashed seen in summit. she showed us where she tried to back up while facing downhill. she put the car in reverse but instead the car raced forward downhill hitting other cars before rolling over on its side. >> i had to came out from the window. >> a call out the window. >> mechanical problems for sure the car was in reverse but the car went forward and over. so baffled we contacted lawyers, toyota, no one could help us. >> they took these pictures of the accident scene along with a photo of the transmission stuck in reverse. inserts coverage and her medical bills which were treating a likely concussion which kept her from work for a month. but now they are stuck with a car that has been in an accident and they believe had a pre-existing discoloration problem so they don't feel safe. >> a law firm out there who is fighting this should represent us to get us a replacement car. we don't want any money from them we just want to be safe on the road, and toyota is responsible for this incident. >> she said she could no longer drive the car on hills because she's too scared. here on broadway, i talked with numerous mechanics who said they had never faced this kind of problems with toyota. at this toyota dealership managers had no comment. the carmaker released a statement about the same as saying that entering the settlement while difficult is a major step in putting this inunfortunate chapter behind us. sobering results from a survey on the current climate at uc campuses. the survey followed reports of several racially charged incidents including african- americans, jews, and palestinians. 24% of the more the 100,000 students, faculty and staff members said they had experienced intimidating, offensive and/or hostile conduct. 9% said the conduct interfered with their ability to work or learn. administrators say they intend to analyze the data to look for areas in which to improve. u.s. labor department is closed its investigation of wage complaints by the oakland raiders cheerleaders. is that they are exempt from minimum wage laws because their work is seasonal. some of the raiderette's have sued about their wages, and the team is now asking the nfl to resolve the dispute through arbitration. the raiderette say when game appearances, personal appearances are all factored in they earn less than $5 an hour. it was a three-story home with a multi- million-dollar view of the golden gate bridge, but it was illegal in the eyes of the city of albany and today came crumbling down. this was the scene at the albany bulb this afternoon. the city dean the shoreline structure unsafe and red tagged the building and noted it was built illegally on public land. daniel evans became tearful as she watched the home her husband bill come down. >> they are taking my home pretty much. and it hurts, because i'm homeless. >> albany has long struggled to clear the homes from the golf city officials say they're working to help danielle and her husband transition to permanent housing. they say they have helped seven other people help them find houses. senator ran paul visited uc berkeley today and at colleges that uc berkeley often here republican viewpoint. >> i want to show the republican message can be taken to new audiences that haven't previously maybe ben is open to the republican message. >> he said his libertarian message often find a receptive audience with progressive. during the speech some students cheered his remarks. the city of san francisco held a training class to teach people about coyotes. people of reported seeing coyotes more and more in the city. parks department is teaching its workers how to teach others about important steps such as keeping dogs on leeches leashes and not leaving petfood outside. strange behavior leads to an arrest. a man approached amiddle school student had a gas station and tried to give him a kiss. why police did not have to look far to make an arrest. bay area homeowners who have already been conserving water now being asked to save even more. how realistic is that? lots of sunshine today across the 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card. one man is in custody tonight after a disturbing incident near middle school. the man tried to kiss a young boy on the corner of bancroft and ask a deal in san leandro. >> it happened about 8:15 a.m. in the shell station parking lot across the street from bancroft middle school. the cashier said the man who appeared to be in his 60s stopped for gas, but something about him didn't seem right. >> he was scary, he was weird. >> the cashier said the man was talking to a group of students in the parking lot. >> he grabbed one of the kids from the head and tried to kiss him. >> the students ran away, teacher came by and took a photo of the car and called police. no child was injured or abducted. the man they're looking for showed up at police headquarters today were they arrested him. >> he came to speak with their detectives and that's where we are now. we're researching exactly what happened to get his perspective and weigh the facts between what the children said and what the witnesses said. >> the school placed automated calls to each of the parents alerting them that someone inappropriately approached a student. >> is scary that you can even you know drop your kid off on your way to work and then get a call, hey someone tried to approach me and that's dangerous. >> last month police say a man tried and failed to lure a 13- year-old girl into his car as she was walking to bancroft middle school. parents of another 13-year-old student reported a similar incident. >> whether that's associated with this we won't know until the interview process is done. >> police booked the man on a misdemeanor charge of unknowing or molesting a child. he is behind barred but are not releasing his name. police credit to students with running away from the man and notifying adults. the fbi's now trying to retrieve deleted data from the home flight simulator belonging to the pilot of malaysia airlines flight 370. the aid comes as anguished family staged a protest today, accusing the malaysian government of withholding the truth about the plane. that woman cry, i want to see my son has police dragged her from a briefing room and malaysia. she and other chinese national say the malaysian government is ignoring their questions. teams from 26 countries are trying to find the boeing 777 the wet missing on march 8 with 239 people as was flying from kuala lumpur to beijing. ukraine conceded crimea to russia and said it will pull all of its military forces from the peninsula. that came hours after pro- russian militiamen backed by russian forces stormed ahead headquarters. ukrainian personnel packed their bags and left. ukraine made a move of its own announcing it will hold joint military exercises with u.s. and britain. federal reserve chair janet yellin noted that the u.s. economy is not close to full employment as she held her first news conference. >> unemployment is still elevated, underemployment and long-term unemployment remain significant concerns. >> yellen also said the fed will take another step back in its bond buying stimulus effort and she said that it may raise short-term interest rates after the stimulus and run the end of the year. this could mean all interest rates will rise. interest rates have been an a record low since 2008. major indexes pullback after yellen's combats the dow lost 114 points, nasdaq dropped 25. financial stocks rose in anticipation of higher interest rates turning into higher earnings. rate resort and casino is taking a big bite out of profits from river rock casino. since the opening last november business at river rock casino dropped by about 40% according to the press democrat which also reports that 100 people left river rock to work for reagan. and that river rock may not fill the vacant jobs. payments to tribal members have also been cut in half. the water district is discussing a new water conservation plan. it's expected call for 15% voluntary cut in total water use and the 25% cut in landscape watering. some contra costa water customers are wondering if the lake call for cuts is even fair. >> about half a million people from oakley to martinez to walnut creek get contra costa water. ditch district staff recommend a 15% cut. >> i would say they are asking quite a bit with a lot of people here in concord have been conserving. >> sanchez showed us his family of four uses 163 gallons a day, that's less than half the district average. the district says the voluntary reduction is based on so-called historical use. >> people have been doing a lot of efforts to conserve. we are in an extreme situation. >> we found scott catherine's very water conscious family of four. how fair would a 15% cut be for them. their bill showed 142 gallons a day very commendably low. for years, they have recycled leftover drinking and bathwater for their plants. they don't flush as often as many families might. >> if it's yellow, it's mellow. >> they catch rainwater in barrels, they don't water the lawn at all. but because they have been doing this for so long, they are remarkably low 126 gallons a day to day is too high under a 15% cut, they would have to reduce even more. >> yes we can, and we have already started more aggressive technique for conserving water here at our house. >> there's maybe perhaps an extreme example. but many homeowners told us they feel they have done enough. and they don't want to be penalized for having done the right thing for years. we're just hours away from the beginning of spring and mark madman has been tracking a winter that was very sad. >> november december thinking might get some more storms it took a while to get here, now are looking toward spring and you know spring begins tomorrow morning just before 10:00 a.m. we will have dry conditions but a few high clouds. temperatures this afternoon, spring light lots of mid-to upper 70s for fremont, san jose, morgan hill concord topped out at 75 in san francisco 72 degrees. time lapse from this evening showing high clouds moving in from west. partly cloudy skies right now and those clouds will continue to filter into the bay area. the satellite perspective of those clouds offshore after a fairly warm afternoon pretty mild out there right now showing the 7:00 p.m. numbers and still some 70s outward concord and walnut creek. san francisco 62 and san jose checking and 67 degrees. for tonight partly cloudy skies, tomorrow some cloud makes spring begins at 9:57 a.m. the weekend, more sunshine the first weekend of spring with lots of sunshine and temperatures rebounding back up. at least for tomorrow we will cool off a little bit. overnight lows to start out your thursday morning will be in the 40s across most of the bay area but the cool spots in the upper 30s toward napa, possibly around santa rosa as well were going to go with 40 degrees to start up the day. here's a whether prater, high- pressure still command of our weather. no chance of rain in our five day but possibly next week. by tuesday we can track some rain chances. the high clouds will continue to move into the area tomorrow from the west to the southwest. the mild weather pattern remains in place at least with the cloud cover here's the forecast model. the high clouds streaming across the bay area throughout the day on thursday and partly cloudy skies dropped afternoon on friday but no raindrops expected from that changing weather pattern. forecast ties for tomorrow most spots a little cooler than to date still pretty warm out there for santa rosa. could be a little muggy as well with the moisture moving in from the pacific. open sunday one, san jose 73, sunnyvale 71 and 71 san francisco it 68. here's a look at of your five day forecast. the we can will be nice on a little bit warmer with a few extra clouds by monday of next week. get a taste of one pint- size competition with a very healthy message. one man comes within a whisker of disaster, it's caught on tape of a dashboard camera female 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city school district prepared their healthy sandwich in a future chef competition. the results were judged on ease of preparation, fun ingredients and presentation. the district which also includes menlo park are hoping to inspire students to make healthy choices. new details of coming out about the return of the star wars franchise. disney and lucasfilm's announce episode seven will start filming in may. the film will be said about 30 years after the return of the jedi. only one cast member has been announced so far, that is r2- d2. thank you for making ktvu your choice for new. were always here for you at ktvu.com and you can follow us on facebook and twitter. our coverage continues with the 10:00 p.m. news and i would follow developing news a mendocino county where sheriff's deputy was gunned down. team coverage at 10:00 p.m., tmc is up next, right here warner bros. domestic television distribution] >> today on "tmz," john mayer has filed a lawsuit saying that he bought $5 million 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