[ lucky ] theyre magically delicious the one and only, cheerios good morning. We are live in San Francisco where there has been reports of an officer involved shooting involving a stolen cab. Well bring you the very latest just seconds away. A Scotts Valley man who fell 5060 feet and has a bad head injury is now missing. Youll hear the message he posted before he disappeared and well tell you about the search. Controversy tied to tragedy. The armys response to the former soldier accused of killing two Police Officers. Were live in oakland where hundreds of Waste Management employees have walked off the job. Well tell you what is going on here and how it may effect your garbage and recycling services. When morning news continues. Good morning, to you. Welcome to a brand new day its friday, march 15th im dave clark. Good morning, im pam cook. Thank you for joining us. Rosemary orozco is in for steve today with the weather. How does it look . We are looking pretty nice. Our unseasonably warm, warm weather will take a hit. But we will be above average by the time we slide into your weekend. We are waking up with patchy fog. Low and high clouds. Patchy fog low but not thick. Into the afternoon i do see a minor temperature drop and a cooling trend for your weekend. Farther out i see rain. Good morning, sal. We are looking at highway 24. It looks pretty good there. Between walnut creek and oakland it should be a decent drive. Also the morning commute it looks pretty good if you are driving on 580 now. This is a big rig that caught fire earlier. You see some of thely tar dent they it started with a brake fire. The lanes were blocked for awhile. This is new video coming in. Its on the shoulder now. The lanes are open but we just found out that they may need to take up the right lane again a little bit later on. The good news is westbound 580 traffic not effected by this traffic. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you. Were following breaking news from San Francisco. That officer involved shooting tied to a stolen taxi cab. Brian flores is there in fort mason. You just got new video, brian. Reporter good morning, dave. Were in the fort mason area. As you can see behind me still a very active scene. Its been that way for at least 30 minutes. There are cop cars in this area. This is the area where we believe the stolen cab is located. We still havent seen it yet. This is the last location of where the stolen cab is and what we believe were the suspect was arrested. Heres details of what we know this morning. From what we understand, the suspect vandalized a taxi cab. Somewhere in the area of jackson and buchanon. The driver of that taxi cab got out and confronted the suspect. When he did so the suspect entered the taxi cab and stole and drove away with it. Officers were able to locate that taxi cab in a patrol car around jackson and spruce but that taxi cab actually rammed into the patrol car and from what we understand there are shots fired in the area of jackson and spruce. The taxi cab was able to escape and was able to make it here to fort mason. From what we understand the suspect was taken into custody a short time later. A short time later this morning as well. Back out here live again still a very active scene here in the fort mason area. Again the suspect was taken into custody. From what we understand there is a Police Officer headed to the area of jackson and spruce. They may have quarantined off a three block area to take care of this possible shooting that may have happened out over in that area. But well have more details as the morning news continue temperature live in fort mason im brian flores. In just a few hours the search for a missing Scotts Valley man will continue. Ktvu channel 2 reporter janine de la vega is live with more on the head injury that happened just days before that has investigators so concerned and what he may have been out looking for. Janine. Reporter pam, search and rescue crews will be here in two hours. They are meeting here at the Scotts Valley fire department. They already have their search and rescue truck out of here. They will come up with a plan of specific areas. When searching for 20yearold matt abraham. Heres a video that abraham posted on video. Showing his swollen face from injuries that he received in an accident. He says he fell 5060 feet off a test l into the sand and suffered a head injury. His family thinks he walked away from his Scotts Valley home and may be disoriented. Im starting to recover slowly. Im starting to come back home as you can see. I managed to break anything besides my brain right here. Reporter the santa cruz Sheriffs Department searched yesterday in Scotts Valley and in the park past midnight. Abraham was fixuated on finding a backpack he left behind. He also expressed wanting to return to the park to figure out how his accident happened. Abraham is six feet tall 150 pounds and has blond hair and hazel eyes. Search crews will begin searching at about 8 00 a. M. They will start here at the Scotts Valley fire department. And coming up at 6 40 youll hear more from abraham and he describes what hes feeling. Its pretty interesting. You can tell he has some sort of head trauma going on in the video and you will hear that at 6 40. Reporting live janine de la vega. Also this morning ktvu news learned Concord Police are investigating reports of a dog shot with a bb gun. It happened just before 7 00 last night at a home on bailey road. A teenager was seen shooting geese at new hall park the same evening and this comes after a bus window was shot out on wednesday night by an unknown object. Police are investigating whether these incidents are related. Sanitation workers just went on strike. Lorraine blanco just arrived at a Waste Management facility in oakland and i understand hundreds of workers are walking the picket line. Reporter the protestors have been out here since 3 00 a. M. This morning. You can see they have quite a turnout here at the 98th avenue location in oakland. Hundreds of Union Workers from the International Long shore and warehouse union. They want better wages and safer work conditions. We just talked with one man who worked for Waste Management for 23 years. He tells us its not easy to give up a whole days wages but he says this is an important fight. Its a struggle for them. This job is dangerous. You have to be very careful not to get hurt. Its a struggle but they are fed up. Were just fed up and were going to continue to do this until they finally respect us. Reporter Waste Management employees are protesting at three locations today. This is a look at the san leandro facility on davis street. Union workers are also protesting at the altamont landfill east of livermore. We just talked with a spokesperson from Waste Management he told us he was very surprised yesterday when we heard they were going on the strike. He says there has been no harassment or intimidation of workers and he says there is a federal mediator involved and they hope they can come to some sort of agreement very soon. You can expect a little delay in services today, but services will go on. Reporting live in oakland lorraine blanco. New details about the former soldier accused of killing two Police Officers last month. An Army Spokesman says there was not enough evidence to formerly charge Jeremy Goulet with rape allegations dating back to 2006. Officials say dna taken from rape kits did not tie goulet to the crime. Former defense secretary panetta and the military are wondering why they let goulet leave the army instead of face rape charges. A bill in the senate can drastically limit the number of immigration visas. The bill would make it harder for relatives ofs is to come of american citizens to come here and make it easier for high skilled workers. Time now 6 09. Lets get everybody out the door. Sal, when you walked into the traffic empire you were going in a different direction. Hopefully things have calmed down. Yeah. We started at 4 30 and here we are at 6 09. This is the first time i can say youre okay. We are taking a little bit of a break here with traffic eastbound and westbound on 101 looking good. The traffic at the toll plaza isnt that bad. Its backed up for a little bit. The metering lights should be on pretty soon. It seems like things are calming down. Also we are looking at the south bay. The traffic there looks good. There is a new report in milpitas of a crash northbound 680 let me pull this up here. Its not causing a big delay just yet. Lets go to rosemary. Good morning, to you. Off to a cooler start. Santa rosa checking in 41. 44 in napa. 48 concord. 40 to low 50s around the bay. 50 in oakland. 49 San Francisco. We do have a weak on shore breeze. Seeing a little bit of fog out there. Its patchy in nature. Its hugging the coastline. A little bit in napa this morning. Seeing some of it seep into bay area. Its not going to be as bad as the last couple of days. Good news as you get out the door this morning. Going to point you to the pacific satellite view. The ridge of High Pressure that has been over us for the last several days beginning to weaken. You can tell here. The big arch now gone. We just have weak systems that will ride through the area. Each one passing by. Continuing our cooling trend. It will be a minor one. Were looking at temperatures sticking apouf the seasonal average for this time of year as we get into the final weekend of winter. 70 degrees for oakland this afternoon. 66 in San Francisco. Low 70s san rafael. San francisco for napa. Into the east bay 75 for livermore. 72 for san jose. Low 70s expected along the peninsula. If you are going to tahoe you have a gorgeous weekend in store. Partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies. Mid 60s today. Low 60s tomorrow. And the cooling trend will continue for tahoe tomorrow. There is your extended forecast with your weekend always in view. Over night lows on the cool side but not bad. Low 70s expected for the afternoon. The cooling trend continues monday and tuesday. We have rain in the forecast for wednesday. I will show you that future cast model coming up. Protecting seals at bay area beaches. Well tell you about the new campaign. A bizarre Court Outburst involving a San Francisco woman. A former sacramento web producer facing serious allegations. The reason hes accused of leaking personal information to a Hacking Group. A former web producer for a sacramento tv station has been indicted for allegedly working with a computer Hacking Group anonymous. 26yearold matthew keys is accused of giving the pass words to the Los Angeles Times website to that computer Hacking Group. Keys worked for ktxl. The u. S. Says an iranian fighter jet chased an american drone over the persian gulf. The incident happened tuesday. The pentagon says the iranian jet backed away when the pilot radioed a verbal warning. The u. S. Says the drone was on a routine surveillance mission. Unrelated news United Nations investigation into looking into the american drone program. The pakistani government told u. N. Investigators it did not consent to any drone strikes. At least 400 civilians have been killed. The u. S. Says pakistan secretly consented to the strikes and that the number of civilian deaths is much lower. Time now 6 15. In just about an hour from right now president obama will head to one of the nations top Energy Research labs. And he will release new information about his energy policy. Ktvu Kyla Campbell is live in washington, d. C. Newsroom with a sneak peek at what the president will be doing. Kyla. Reporter dave, the president says the u. S. Has made Great Strides in recent years to create its own energy and it relies less on oil and gas from other countries. But the president says more needs to be done and he needs help from congress. President obama wants to invest there are 2 billion wants to invest 2 billion over the next decade in renewable sources. The president is calling on congress to create a new Energy Security trust. That would include Research Funding to improve home grown bio fuels and vehicles that run on electricity. He says imports are at a 20 year low. And they are releasing a report saying america as a whole is spending less on gas. The number of hybrid vehicles doubling over the last five years and say there is are six times as many car models that get 30 miles per gallon or more. There are more details about the president s plan how wind and solar energy will play a role and how the bay area could benefit from his plan when i see you next. Live in washington, Kyla Campbell ktvu channel 2 news. Time now 6 17. The budget battle continues in washington, d. C. With new optimism. Republicans are telling the president he needs to tone down his political attacks and also get democrats to support controversial changes in medicare if he wants a compromise. Democrats have pushed a budget that calls for roughly 1 trillion in new tax revenue over ten years. Its expected to head to the u. S. Senate next week. The woman accused of kicking a toddler at a San Francisco playground will return to court next week. That is after a bizarre outburst in the courthouse yesterday. 24yearold sabrina bell was supposed to be arraigned on felony assault and child endangerment but as her case was called show could be heard yelling from her holding sell. Think kicked a little girl at golden gate park. Marin county has larged has launched a new campaign to keep seals safe during pupping season. Marine biologists are reminding beach goers to call the Marine Center if they find a sick seal. Time now 6 18. Lets check in with sal. What is happening on highway 24 . It looks pretty good. 680, 24, highway 4. If you are driving in the county right now, it looks good. A little bit of slow traffic in antioch. But all and all we are off to a good start here. If you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza the metering lights havent switched on and the lights have been switched on and the road looks good. We havent had report of flats in the last hour or so. The traffic is moving along okay in the south bay. We had an accident northbound 680 at jacqueline. Northbound 101 a little slow approaching the the 880 interchange. A modest cool down inside your doors. We have temperaturesholding in the 40s to low 50s. A little cooler than yesterday morning. High clouds back with us again this morning. Low clouds hugging the coastline and just inside the bay. And patchy fog to deal with. We will continue with the high clouds into the afternoon. And our cooling trend begins today. It will be a subtle one. Some of us may not really notice so much. Tracking this system well out about 1800 miles off the coastline. North of hawaii. Going to bring us some rain. Ill show you when here as we pick it up this morning by this afternoon. Partly cloudy skies the high clouds still overhead into saturday. We continue with partly cloudy mostly clear skies. This system here not going to bring us any rain but we will continue our cooling trend. Sunday is dry. Monday is dry. This system now within our view. By tuesday night its moving into the bay area. The first day of spring is early wednesday morning. I think we will see spring showers. Your extended forecast the cooling trend continuing although take a look at how subtle it is as we get into your weekend. The numbers will continue to fall off monday into tuesday. I will show you how much rain or talk about much rain we expect to get with this system coming up. Consumer prices jumped last month and the biggest spike in three years. Gas prices did surge more than 9 during february. Food prices up a little bit. Our time is now 6 20. Its a role that made raider fans furious for more than ten years. Now we are hearing nfl owners think its finally time for a change. New support for drakes bay. The celebrity chef now fighting to keep the Oyster Company open. Well, well, well. Growing up, we didnt have uverse. We couldnt record four shows at the same time. In my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. 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