Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Channel Two News At 430am 20141105

Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Channel Two News At 430am 20141105

Car doe. At this our lacardoe holds a lead with 57 of the vote. However mail in ballots still need to be counted. This could go down as the closest race in San Jose City history. There is a lot of votes to count and they will be counting for a long time. It feels great. We have worked so hard. So many volunteers. With money coming in and we are in this thing. This race has centered on how san jose should stop the exited of police officers. Roll back parts of the pension cuts. Libby shaft has 62 of the votes. Rebecca kaplan has 37 . Jean quan was eliminated after the 14th round of rank choice voting. These are the unofficial results. A winner has yet to be girlly declared. Council woman shaft says she is confident in her lead and believes she will be named oaklands new mayor. Spirits were high as the numbers started coming in. She is going to make the city what it can be. So you can walk around safely. At her Campaign Headquarters she told Campaign Workers how proud she is to be an oakland native and thanked her supporters. Many of whom were classmates of hers for their hard work. Im just proud of the campaign we have run and im very excite the about oaklands future. She also says the bay area continues to prosper and its time for oakland to do the same. She says the endorsements she received late in the campaign of jerry brown and Barbara Boxer helped lead her to victory. Rebecca kaplan is in second place. We caught up with her last night as she was hitting the streets and reminding people to get out and vote. Im incredibly honored at the level of support that i have been getting from the people of oakland. And we know we have to make sure every vote comes in. Even though Council Woman libby shaft has 60 of the rank choice votes, the results are unofficial. There are still several thousand votes by mail ballots to still be counted. The Chevron Oil Company came out the big loser in the race for mayor in richmond. Tom butt defeated gnat bates. Chevron spent big money to elect bates mayor. Time now 4 34. No surprise in the governors race with Governor Brown winning a fourth term. He has 58 of the vote compared to 48 for neil kashkari. We will hear from Governor Brown and kashkari coming up at 5 00. Republicans are celebrating winning enough seats to take control of the house and senate. Newly reelected Mitch Mcconnell will be the new majority leader. As it stands now, republicans have 52 senate seats after picking up seven from the democrats. There are still four states that have not been called yet. Well continue to bring you Election Results throughout the morning. You also can find up to the minute results for all the races at the bottom of the screen and at ktvu. Com. Just look for the link at the top of the front page and look for the races in your county. In other news this morning, one man is dead after a hit and run crash in San Francisco. Ktvu Tara Moriarty is joining us now from Police Headquarters where detectives are trying to figure out who the driver is. Reporter yeah they have basically poured over Surveillance Video but it doesnt reveal much. They do know that they are looking for the driver of an 18 wheeler. Its possible the driver didnt realize he struck the pedestrian. The deadly accident happened just before midnight in the citys tenderloin district. Police patrol that area 24 hours but were not on that particular block when the accident happened. We do know the man was struck and killed but his identity has not been released. Police have seen Surveillance Video from a nearby hotel but they were not able to get a license plate on the vehicle. Offices say they have one witness they are hoping anyone else who might have information about the accident comes forward. We did speak to some of the victims friends that did not want to appear on camera. The victim was a very nice person and still in shock. Live in San Francisco im Tara Moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. All right. Hopefully we get more information in a little bit. 4 36 is the time. A man that was killed, a 16 yearold boy was hurt. This is in a double shooting in san jose. They got a call about shots fired inside of an apartment near blossom hill road just after 5 15 last night. A man with one gunshot wound was pronounced dead at the scene. A teenager was taken to the hospital and expected to survive. The motive of this shooting is still under investigation. The water e pose your problem on the tower of the new bay bridge may be far worse than first believed. More than 100 steal rods anchoring the 525foot tower may have been flooded by corrosive water. The water problem was believed to have only infected 18 rods. The rods holding down the tower were supposed to be encased in waterproof grout. They need to determine how much corrosion has set in before it decides how to fix the problem. San Francisco Mayor ed lee is expected to announce he will seek reelection. According to the San Francisco chronicle, that announcement could come in a matter of days. Last week the chronicle reported that former San Francisco supervisor and current state senator mark leno is considering a run for mayor. Coming up at 5 00 the city that is making history this morning. It is a memory. A bay area family tainted by what the 49ers are doing to try to fix this mix up. Right now we are starting off with a pretty decent commute on this wednesday. Golden gate bridge. That looks good heading down to the toll plaza. Clear skies out there and temperatures a little bit warmer. [crowd cheering] [swish] on this field, a single decision can change a game. For a man with prostate cancer, [swish] a single decision can change his entire life. [swish] while i chose surgery, a less aggressive approach called active surveillance might be the best choice for you. Ask your doctor about a genomic test that may help you make the right decision. Learn more at yourprostateyourdecision. Com. Welcome back everybody. With 98 of precincts reporting. Prop 45 is trailing. It would give the commissioner any say about an increase until Health Insurance rates. And prop 46 looks like it will be defeated. Prop 46 would require drug testing of doctors and the review of a statewide prescription data base before prescribing controlled substances. And also it would have increased the pain and suffering cap in medical negligence lawsuits. Two bay area cities said yes to a higher minimum wage. Measure j calls for a gradual increase from the minimum wage to 15 an hour within four years. And in Oakland Measure ff will raise the minimum wage from 9 an hour as it is now to 12. 25 starting in march. Contra costa county was one of 18 locations across the country that had a computer glitch linked to a florida software vendor. The website failure was discovered early yesterday morning and the problem continued throughout the night. The county clerk says it did not slow clerk counting. Hopefully by the the time we get to a next president ial race, we will be able to use some of the new technologies that are available and being used today in states like colds, oregon, texas, and elsewhere around the country. State Election Officials say 9 Million People requested vote by mail ballots this year. That is more than half of the states registered voters. An alleged gang member faces life in prison after being convicted of murdering a wealthy entrepreneur. Was killed two years ago during a Home Invasion robbery. He was tied up and gagged and died of affixuation. 27yearold marcelles was killed. A fourth female defendant agreed to a plea deal. Authorities say she was a prostitute. The San Mateo County Coroners Office is investigating a tragic incident after pacifica beach. Police say a 60yearold man drowned while surfing at lind mar beach monday morning. Other surfers rushed to bring him to shore after they spotted his surf board fly into the air. The surfer lived in pacifica but they have not released his name. There is good news for lick observatory. It will continue to get support from the university of california. The university had announced the observatory on Mount Hamilton would have to be self supporting by 2018. Now the University System has reversed that decision. University officials have not decided how it will divide the available money between lick and other uc supported asymptom my facilities. Her mother died four years ago. So she decided to buy her moms old seat at the stick. But the hayward woman immediately learned the niners did not send her the right seat when the shipment arrived on monday. When we saw there was no inscription addressed to my mom on it. I teared up a little bit. The inscription she and her brother wrote said mom, this will always be your seat. The 49ers say they will now do Everything Possible to send her the right seat but with 70,000 old seats, that is not going to be an easy task. Unfortunate. It is. It is 4 45. We want to check in with sal for an early look at traffic. You getting ready there sal . A little bit of you know these fingers are the magic that run this whole traffic thing. And you have a lot of gadgets over there. Absolutely. Its a geeks paradise. I have computers. We are doing well. I have to say we are doing well on this wednesday so far. If you want to get ahead of the crowd, 280 is a good way for you to do it. Northbound in san jose. Yesterday we had a horrible day. You can use other adjectives too. Horrible is what we will stick to on television. It was terrible on 101 and 85 and 280. Some of it was because of accidents, others were heavy volume. And this morning we are expecting the same volume. This is a look at 680 southbound. You can see traffic is moving along okay between concord and walnut creek. When you see the road sensors green like this, that mean there is is not a lot of slow traffic. This is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza westbound. This traffic will be doing very welcoming into San Francisco. Weve also checked with bart and cal train. Bart and cal train are off to a pretty decent start. At 4 46 seve. Sal. I love that picture you sent me last night. Of . Your new barbecue. I love it. You know what was the best part . We can talk about it. It was at orchard supply. The guy says were out. Would you like the floor model . I said so i dont have to build it. He said i can deliver it. Thank you, sal. 4 47. And we do have a typhoon. It was a super typhoon. Nuri. It will miss japan. It was the strongest storm on earth here a couple days ago. I think on sunday. It has weakened a little bit but id hat wind 180 to gusts around 200. The key is it moves into the bearing see. It will be very strong. I hope it works. There it goes. Its also going to fire up it looks like the ridge of High Pressure over us. As it moves into the illusions it will be a meteorological bomb. Amazing. Unfortunately what that all signs are pointing toward is High Pressure building over us. We will see mostly sunny, sunny skies. The end result is it looks like another continuation of that polar system they had last year. There are signs of a very deep system coming all the way down into the Florida Panhandle probably next week as High Pressure builds over us. That has been the pattern for ten months and it looks like a reenforcement of it. There is some fog off the coast. I hope you followed that. Its amazing system. But any way for us it will be sunny today. This will probably be the warmest day. There are some 40s around. 43 walnut creek. 46 napa. This is much warmer. I think 18 degrees warmer than two days ago. I know the days are short, but it will be in the mid 70s to upper 70s for a few. This could probably be the warmest day. My computer hasnt had its coffee yet. [ laughter ] its working on it. Im okay. But last week was rough. Everything goes up and over. Sunshine and warmer temps. There might be a little bit of patchy fog. We had a lot at lafayette. Temperatures will be in the 70s here. I want coast bay and inland. Everybody enjoying sunshine. This does look like a little cooler. Oh geesh. Any way. Were having let me be honest were having serious computer issues. At least you have a nice barbecue. That has be the best part of the day so far. It will be sunny and warm. One of San Franciscos most popular halladay attractions opens in just a few hours. At 9 30 this morning. The holiday ice drink already at june ice ink already at union square. The public will be allowed on to the ice starting at 10 00. Tickets 11 for adults, 7 for kids eight and under. It will be open through the Martin Luther king holiday in mid january. A little bit of sad news. The oldest member of a herd of bison has died. She was cared for by San Franciscos zoo staff is that have been monitoring her for several months. She was able to live a long life because of that special attention. There are six other bison in the park and they are all about three years old. 4 50 is the time right now. Democrat verses democrat. Coming up in 20 minutes the results in a very closely watched race to represent a large portion of Silicon Valley on capitol hill. But first a vatican official takes a stand against a bay area natives decision to end her life. Welcome back. Time now 4 52. We are all about Election Results this morning. The secretary of state contest has been one of the closest of the statewide races but in just the past half hour, 100 of the precincts have been reported. Democratic state senator al expadilla alex padilla leads with 52 of the vote. The race for superintendent of public instruction was also neck and neck with 100 of the precincts now reporting incumbent tomato lack son has 52 of the vote. And approved the use of marijuana by adults. The laws make it legal for people 21 years and older to possess, grow, process, and sale marijuana. The regulations are similar to laws approved by voters in colorado and Washington State two years ago. Oregons law goes into effect by july 1st. The washington, d. C. Law still needs approval by congress. Protestors in missouri made sure their voices were heard. 15 people were escorted outside of a hotel after disrupting an acceptance speech. Blood clot the 29yearold was diagnosed the 29yearold was diagnosissed with stage four brain cancer. She moved to oregon because that state allows doctors to prescribe medicine to terminally ill patients so they can end their own lives. The vaticans top officials calls maynards decision rep hencable. But also says maynard herself should not be judged. We now know the copilot that was killed this last weeks crash was from santa cruz county. 39yearold michael grew up in scotts valley. He was killed. The pilot of that spaceship was hurt last friday. Tragedy at a Bay Area High School after a student apparently takes his own life. And hes not the only first. Coming up the troubling trend in how authorities are trying to stop it. It was an easy victory for jerry brown and the race for governor of california. The reason this may not be the last time we hear from his opponent neil kashkari. And were still off to a great start on this wednesday. You can see it in almost every traffic stop we see. Highway 24 looks good heading out to the tunnel. Well, we have a full moon out there. And its blended in the morning sky because the skies are clear. Its also getting warmer. Not all the ballots have been counted but one candidate for mayor is declaring victory. Plus voters here in berkeley make history by passing a so called soda tax. We will tell you about the impact of measure d coming up. Good morning. We are live in san jose this morning. A little bit of a breeze as you can see with the flag blowing. It was down to only 2 how long votes in the race to become mayor of the city of san jose. In just two minutes janine de la vega will have more on who may become the next leader of the bay areas biggest city. A lot of tight races. I know. Very big election. It is wednesday, november 5th im pam cook. And good morning, im dave clark. Lets go to steve. Talking about a full moon. I was driving on my way to work. I was like wow, look at that. We have clear skies and its getting warmer. Some of the Higher Elevations are getting to the upper 50s. Downtown says 57. Full moon will be at 222 today. I had a friend of mine that is into that. Santa rosa a5e. These are all warmer. Patchy fog is lurking. There might be some showing up a little bit later. Yesterday we had some. Santa rosa and also lafayette seems to be the leader of the pack. 50s on the temps or 40s there. No doubt about it coming off. We had 40s for pittsburgh and brentwood. Al moe 44. Those are up as well. High pressure wins out. Sunny and warmer weather. Patchy fog and warmer afternoon. Mid 70s. Could be a few pushing the upper 50s. Even 72 in San Francisco. All right sal, the weather looks good. How about the traffic . It looks good too, steve. We are looking at a commute where traffic is doing very nicely in most areas so far. Lets take a look now at the bay bridge toll plaza where you can see traffic is doing very nicely here. There have been no

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