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Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Morning News 20120601



antioch. in bay point we look pretty nice. also this morning we are taking a look at 880. both directions look fine. let's go back to the desk. new this morning an arson investigation in san jose. emergency crews still on the scene of two suspicious fires on the campus of evergreen high school. they were first reported at 2:30 this morning. one fire burned a dumpster the other damage the the outside of the campus library. nobody was hurt but they have strong evidence the fires were intentionally set. find out what may help track down that arsonist. 6:01. suspended sheriff ross mirkarimi is facing new action in the misconduct case against him. claudine wong is in san francisco right now with the details of what is next. claudine. >> reporter: it's all up to the ethics commission now. the question whether or not ross mirkarimi will be able to keep his job as sheriff. we do have a better idea of the grown work. all of this starts with a deadline today for the mayor. mayor ed lee needs to turn in a bill of particulars regarding the charges of the misconduct against the sheriff. then he goes from here a week after testifying against for and against ross mirkarimi has to submit declarations. both sides can decide who they want to cross examine. in terms of what evidence will be submitted certainly the city expected to to show the video of elle yen that leo pose talking about the bruise her husband made on the arm. remember this is a hearing not a trial. the commission saying it's not going to stick to strict rules of evidence and will have hearsay. >> does it breach the trust of the public that if you believe he battered his wife. most would say yes. but shouldn't we leave it up to a recall election so the people of san francisco can vote? or do we put it to a panel that is hand picked and say let them decide what happens here. again that depends on what your position and how you view this particular case. >> reporter: so the evident area hearing will start june 19th. they have call two witnesses on that day. then it goes to another ten days. once this is all done the cases are all presented, the commission will make a recommendation and that recommendation will go to the board of supervisors. live here in san francisco claudine wong ktvu channel 2 news. berkeley already has a law that bans people from lying on sidewalks. now voters could take that a step further. lorraine blanco is in berkeley. >> the mayor thinks citing on the sidewalks is particularly a problem here. lying on the sidewalk is from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.. when enforced the city could close up. the mayor plans to bring it up to the june isth. we talk to -- so was the student sitting and studying. i guess after they approached them they would choose not to give them a ticket. i can see it being forced unfairly. >> reporter: if approved breaking the law would be considered an infraction and cost you $50. for a repeat offender it becomes a misdemeanor. live in berkeley lorraine blanco. 6:04. two separate shootings in oakland last night left three people injured. inclouding two juveniles. the first one happened on 61st street. friends of one of the victims drove him to the. a second victim reportedly in his 20s he was rushed to ambulance. another juvenile was shot and injured in a separate shooting. it happened on 93rd avenue about 9:45 last night. alabama ambulance rushed that victim to the -- an ambulance rushed that victim to the hospital. police in santa clara are investigating a sexual assault. a woman told police that she was assaulted on park avenue around 3:00 yesterday morning. now police only have a vague description of the suspect. they are asking minute with information to give them a call. police start to investigate yesterday afternoon. now police moved war the house. look at them the guns were drawn. after getting reports of dangerous dogs on that property. they found two men that had been burned on their arms. they can also smell chemicals in the air. the may jobs report is out and the numbers are below expectations. u.s. employers created 69,000 jobs last month. that is the fewest in a year. that is according to the labor department this morning. coming up at 6:15 we will go live to the washington, d.c. bureau with reaction to the job figures. kill tell you the reaction on wall street not happy. budget cuts could force san francisco city college to make major changes. they may have to -- they vote opinion independent evaluation. the school has 90,000 full and part time students. our time is 6:07. sal, it's friday. do you feel friday light? >> so far so good. so far it looks good if you are drying around the bay area -- driving around the bay area nothing major. let's go outside and take you a look. 80 westbound is getting more crowded for sure. and this rush hour commute as you drive out to the mccarthur maze but so far not a lot of stop and go. a little slow but not stop and go yet. at the toll plaza we are getting a little bit of a lane. highway 4 a little bit of slow traffic. 24 to oakland looks good. we already checked out 80. i want to move it down to hayward. we don't have a lot of slow traffic. 6:07 let's go to steve. >> thank you. pollen index this is for pam cook and claudine wong and maybe you as well if you have been suffering. trees making a little move up in the medium to medium high category. weeds still held in check. they will continue to drop here as we go into the weekend. but temperatures will come way down. fog is on the coast. it's there but it's very shallow. 50s and 60s on the temps. mainly upper 50s now but there is fog that is roaring back. it's just again having to deal with high pressure that is on the move. it's not parked over us like it was yesterday. unseasonally strong. our temps will go from up here to way down here. especially inland. thick fog on the coast. cooling begins. still 90s inland. 90s and if you are far enough away upper 90s. i think you will notice a drop in temps today. definitely on saturday and no doubt about it on sunday into monday. fog, sun, cool for some. hot for others between. mild to warm. coastal fog is really starting to thicken up. there is a lot out there. 50s, 60s, 70s coast and bay. 80s and 90s to near 100 degrees anywhere. 72 oakland. 74 for hayward. 94 gilroy. 90 livermore. 80s low to mid peninsula. and then on the coast 60s or very low 70s. fog on the increase and moving fast with your weekend always in view. monday clouds cooler maybe even light splash and dash showers to the north. >> wow. a tragedy leads to a mystery in marin county. a roadside memorial for a teenage boy disappears. also the health warning about peanut butter. wait until you hear what researchers found inside some jars. welcome back. 6:12. a roadside memorial that honors a novato teenager that died in a drunk driving crash has disappeared. they have been placing candles and flowers for two years. the teenager was killed in may 2010 when he was riding in a car with a classmate that was drunk. all traces of that memorial were gone. the police, the park rangers, public works crews say they did not remove it. reservoirs will be searched again on monday for signs of sierra lamar. the dive team will surge the uvas reservoir where antolin reportedly went fishing. sierra lamar's family and friends are not giving up hope finding her alive. they will hold a rally tonight at 7:00 at her old school. washington high school in fremont. some 400 people attended the vigil there in march. shortly after the 15-year-old disappeared. meantime the suspect garcia torres made a court appearance yesterday. he was charged with one count of murder ever. they seem to be confident they can get a murder conviction. garcia torres did not enter a plea. his attorney was given six more weeks to prepare his case. a judge has ordered two oakland motels to shut down for one year. oakland city attorney says the economy inn on east 12th street and the national lodge on international boulevard have been hubs for prostitution. neighbors and area businesses are cheering the decision to close the motels. an attorney for owners says that he will appeal. >> i disagreed with the judge. i told her clearly they haven't had a single act of prostitution since late last year. >> it wasn't until we got a preliminary injunction that they began to pay attention. but we need to shut them down. >> the judges ruling states that the motels must close by july 31st. each must pay a total of $45,000 in fines and the city's legal and police expenses related to the case. 6:14. a federal judge orders an investigation into recent police shootings in oakland. the judge is threatening huge fines if the police department doesn't take immediate action. now this judge is overseeing the mandated reforms that stem from an oakland police department scandal almost ten years ago. there have been three police shootings in oakland this year. in one case the suspect was killed. this mornings jobs report worse than economists predicted. ktvu alison burns is in our washington, d.c. newsroom with how many jobs were added last month and the reaction. alison. >> reporter: pam, economists were forecasting 150,000 jobs added. it was half that. the labor department says 69,000 jobs were added last month. the unemployment rate picked up to 8 .2%. 13,000 government jobs were lost. and there were big losses in construction. it's clear layoffs are increasing and advocates for the unemployed tell us it's getting harder for people that have been out of work for a long time to find new jobs. >> we still have more than three unemployed workers for every job opening. and they are competing against a lot of other folks that are just looking to change jobs. >> reporter: economists say this jobs report and those over the next several months will have a huge impact on the presidential race. we'll take a closer look at how president obama and mitt romney are responding during my next update in about an hour. reporting live from washington, d.c. alison burns. 6:16. defense secretary leon panetta says he doesn't expect the u.s. to take military action in syria without support from the united nations. panetta you see him here yesterday meeting with troops in hawaii says they are making a contingency plan. but possible military intervention would only happen with broad international support. united nations high commissioner wants the international community to support a peace plan and also investigate the killing of more than 100 civilians in syria last week. a seattle man is being called a hero to stop the gunman that opened fire inside a cafe. he shot six people on wednesday killing five of them. investigators say 56-year-old lawrence adams fought back. they say he picked up bar stools and threw them at him even when the gun was pointed at him. police say it was enough to allow three people to run to safety. he later killed himself. adams was not hurt. 6:17. there is a record setting wild fire in new mexico and it is still spreading this morning. it's in the hela national forest. it's the largest in new mexico state history and only 5% contained. during the night it grew to more than 190,000 acres. that is more than 300 square smiles and has been burning for for than two weeks. peanut butter sandwiches are a staple of many researchers. they pulled 36 foods between and 2010. more than half -- there is several ways the chemicals made it into the peanut butter it could have been through dust and passed along through the air, water, and soil. the levels are not high enough to be harmful. >> that is interesting. 6:18. i'm sure moms are making sandwiches this morning. getting people out the door. how are we doing on the roads? >> that sounds good. >> yeah i know. good morning, everybody. traffic is doing well. we are starting off well on this friday. nice looking commute. let's go outside and take a look at some of the things there. we will start with the maps this time and show you that highway 680 interstate 680 at castle wood there is a pickup truck that went off the side of the road. it was pulling a trailer. notly no one was injured but they need a toe truck with really long cable to get the truck out of there. also looking at highway 4 westbound bay point traffic looks good here. little bit of slow traffic in antioch. and this mornings commute on san francisco freeway northbound 101, northbound 280 looking good. the giants play the cubs tonight. that game starts just after 7:00. let's go to steve. >> thank you, sal. sunrise over the big city. if you are by the coast probably dealing with foggen p inland it will be sunny. there will be a big, big difference in the temps today. anywhere from 60 to 100 degrees if you are up toward lake county and also into sacramento valley. cooling trend will start for the coast and bay today. i think a little bit today and more likely as we go into the weekend. satelloid does show -- satellite does show there is a system coming in. it's up here. can we get to the computer? i could do a little dance. the system right there will start to increase the fog it has already done that. it's not making much of a push. 50s on the temps or near 60. fairfield 59. they were 60s last hour. system right there is moving and bumping the high pressure system along. it takes a day before the high temps come down. cooling begins for some. it will still by warm to hot inland. temperatures really topped out yesterday. cooling trend will take us into a bigger drop on saturday. and then sunday i think everybody joins the party. on monday we have to deal with possibility of showers to the north and much cooler temps. big difference between friday and monday. fog, sun, cool for some hot for others. mild to warm between. coastal fog a late sea breeze is definitely there. 60s to 90s i just heard from growth that she is up at middle town. 97 in clear lake today. niveaunovato 84. 68 alameda. 94 gilroy. 84 san jose. 82 fremont. cupertino 85. anywhere from 60 pacifica daly city. fog though really ramping up saturday with your weekend always in view. sunday cooler cooler and much cooler early next week. the airline industry is warning congress against piling on the new taxes. industry leaders say tourism and transport are too important to the u.s. economy to be hand strung. last week a senate committee approved doubling the security fee on plane tickets to $5. the industry says the fees continue to go up people will find alternatives to the airlines. uc berkeley looking at new options to dealing with the rising demand for student housing. cal is looking at turning future housing projects over to private developers. the university says the biggest problem is finding sites to develop and keeping costs affordable for students. 6:22. same sex couples cheering federal appeals court ruling. how it involves government benefits and what may happen next in the legal fact. more trouble for my daughters boyfriend justin bieber. the injuries he suffered after one of his concerts got dangerously out of control. >> it's a pretty good drive on 680 as you pass mission boulevard but there is a crash. we'll tell you more about that and give you the rest of the commute. 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[ zapping ] [ clang ] this is the next level of performance. the next level of innovation. the next rx. the all-new f sport. this is the pursuit of perfection. good morning, bay bridge toll plaza. it's kind of hard to tell with the sun but let me decipher it for you with my traffic eye. there is a little bit of a backup in the cash lanes. if you are using fast track there is no backup. 6:25. the former rutgers university student the one that used a web cam to spy on his gay roommate turned himself in at the jail. he reported to a county jail in n yesterday to begin his 30-day sentence. he was convicted of intimidation own invasion of privacy after his roommate committed suicide. now with good behavior ravi could be out in 20 days. the battle over the defensive marriage act could be appealed in court. ruled the federal government should not be allowed to deny benefits to legally married same sex couples under the law. 17 people in massachusetts sued but same sex couples across the country including here in the bay area are following that case closely. >> every year john and i pay thousands of dollars extra in taxes because we are same sex couple. that is because we are not treated equally under federal tax law. >> yesterday's ruling will not be enforced until the supreme court weighs in. that means legally married same sex couples will not be allowed to collect benefits until then. 6:26. doctors telling singer justin bieber take it easy after he suffered a concussion. justin bieber ran into a glass wall during a concert he was giving in paris. he told tmz he felt light headed but was able to finish his last song before going backstage and passing out briefly. he did post a message on twitter saying he's doing okay. the incident comes a day after several of his fans were hurt in norway while attending his free concert. graphic testimony in the bryan toe case. witnesses are talking about last years vicious beating that happened outside of dodgers stadium. >> we are live in san jose where firefighters say someone tried to burn down a high school. we'll tell you which ones. >> and also the opening bell is about to ring on wall street. pam will bring you the early stock numbers. welcome back. there it is the opening bell live in new york this morning. ringing the opening bell but unfortunately not looking like a very good day following that jobs report. much more disappointing than analysts anticipated. number of new jobs created. that report coming out exactly one hour ago. it looks like the dow check out the bottom part of your screen. down about 16 right now. it looks like it will head much lower pretty quickly. >> all right. we'll smile and say good morning, to you any way. thank you for joining us here on ktvu channel 2 morning news. first day of june. it is friday, june 1st i'm dave clark. >> and i'm pam cook. thank you for joining us. it's 6:30. new think morning san jose firefighters responding to two suspicious fires on the evergreen high school campus early this morning. ktvu tara moriarty joins us now from the scene with more on this arson investigation. >> reporter: firefighters believe that someone intentionally set these fires and if you look behind me you can see the charred dumpster. that was the first fire firefighters came across. the second happened over to the left here against the wall of the library through this gate that is locked where the paint has melted off of the stucco. just after 2:00 this morning crews were tipped off about the fires by an alarm company. control panel in front of evergreen valley high school pointed them in the direction of the dumpster and 40 feet away they spotted that other blaze that started in a pile of wood. now fire officials say it looked suspicious so an arson investigator was called to the scene. >> we do know there were surveillance cameras in the area. the fire investigator will reveal the tapes. >> reporter: crews had the fire contained within 15 minutes. it took more than an hour to get it under control. it took time to find the fires. nearly four dozen crews had to come to the scene because the fire was pretty involved by the time they found it. there is damage but it's only on the outside of the billing. no one was hurt. investigators are going to be looking at surveillance video to see if they with provide them with more clues as to who set the fire. tara moriarty channel 2 morning news. a bicyclist was killed overnight in a head on crash with an suv. it happened just before midnight on old ri

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