Headaches. Welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. Live look at this scene. We have been following all morning long. This is martinez. A huge fire that effected home, offices, and a big lot full of cars. Thank you for joining us im pam cook. Its friday right . Yes. Its been a long week. It has. Good morning, everybody im brian flores. Dave clark has the day off. Steve paulson is not. Ive had a long weekend too. We will start 61. San francisco also warming up i foe its aye going 78 in San Francisco. ever it is bringing rain in seattle and portland. Livermore 56. 52 halfmoon bay. So there is a little chair to the morning air. Fords that means sunshine and warmer weather. High pressure is really not large and in charge. A much, much lighter breeze. Ice 70s and 80s and low 90s. Here is sal. Steve, good morning. We are looking at traffic here that is moving along very nicely if you are driving to the bay bridge in some of those lanes it is light. Some of the middle lanes its slow. In fact, they may start turning on the metering lights soon if they havent already here. And it will make for a bigger backup. Still a ten minute wait. On the bridge itself its getting crowded. The giants play this weekend. They have a couple home games. 49ers play. And if you are driving on highway 4 traffic at 18 miles an hour average speed here. There are no major problems. In fact, my map graphic is not working. There are no major problems on the freeways. Lets go back to the desk. We begin with the breaking news out of martinez. Firefighters remain on the scene. A huge fire thristed Claudine Wong you just there was concern when you is v a the baa fatale job that the man that was there at the time talked to deputies before he left and then he took off. The woman inside also got out and now at a friends house nearby hopefully getting some sleep. The next people you see standing in front of the building now. Owners that apparently saw the fire on tv. And came down to check out the damage. Let me show you what the fire looked like. When firefighters got here it was around 3 15 this morning. The video you are looking at sent in by a viewer. As you can tell those frames were really going. About three quarters of the structure that is described as a used car lot. We talked to a neighbor about what he saw and heard. I heard about six big pops. It sounded like somebody was dropping metal all over the place. When you came out what did you see . Flips about it was just bomb bomb bomb boom boom. They shut them down and they were able to get mostest fire out. They will be out here for a couple more hours. Still going through all of that debris. Making sure the hot spots out r out. They are a fire at a recycling plant in stockton sending smoke across two freeways. That fire is at a recycling plant along filbert street near highways 44 and 99. It started at about midnight. If time ktvu channel 2 news janine de la vega is joining us live from the scene that unfolded in front of an elementary school. Janine. Reporter yes, the water has been shut off here at Terrell Elementary School on pearl avenue. A car crashed into that water main you see right there. And water went spraying into the area. People have been brought in to nix it police say this ever at around 3 00 a. M. When clipped a the driver of the transfort was anywhered but were inside the scene. The man was found injured in the bushes laying down. There is suspicion there could be alcohol involved. But we are not sure. Reporter police are investigating whether to call this accident a hit and run because they are trying to determine who the driver was enif that person was the one that stayed at the ten if a felts manager with a san ho school will be open this morning. They plan on bringing porta potties to the school. They are estimating the damage done to the water main will take about five to six hours ting a woman was killed while sun from neighbors say they off the pink bag and blanket and some thing. I could see her laying face down. The womans baby and dog were not hurt. Investigators have not released the name of the 35yearold woman or the he hassen the Social Security the man making calls says he is lieutenant stevens. He says they have warrants out for their arrest. He recommends to make payment over the phone to make a payment. Another phone scam is targeting People Living in palo alto. Someone is calling people and saying their utilities bill is overdue. The person threatening to shut off the victims power if they dont pay by credit card over the phone. The city of Palo Alto Utilities Department says if you get a similar call hang up and call their Customer Service line. There is new information about the bart labor dispute. But management decided to back off. Meantime bart and unions still appear far apart during this mid way point. If the two sides are not really interested in coming together, the mediator cant tell us what proposals to put across the table. The two sides are not willing to do that. Its the worst bargaining i have ever seen. Clearly intended to push us out on strike. There have been no face to face negotiations since the cooling off period began. And they dont plan to meet for another two weeks. If you are heading into the city be prepared for a lot of traffic on the new bay bridge. This marks the first weekend for the new eastern span. Highway patrol acing them to get to already also the 29ers will be playing their Season Opener on sunday. And the other expected to treasure that means it puts them in a position where they have to win racing is supposed to another under way at 1 15. . San Francisco City leaders at odds over an immigration policy. Should the city help the federal government detain groups of undocumented workers. Why the police chief says its in the best interest of the stay. If you are driving to the bridge or to the nimitz freeway any time soon. So far so good. We will give you an update in a few minutes. Many on the coast have been waiting a long, long time for sunshine and warm temps. Look at that. If you are later this hour president obama is holding a News Conference from the g20 summit. Hes trying to convince International Leaders to support a u. S. Led military strike on syria. Acequia lam campbell reports from as Kyla Campbell reports from washington, d. C. Reporter just this morning the u. S. Ordered diplomats and other americans in lebanon to leave the country as Congress Debates military strikes on syria. Also this morning another russian ship is head toward zier where the u. S. Has four nay city destroyers. That has worried about a already president obama continues talking g20 leaders today on the sidelines of the summit. He is asking for more political support. Not necessarily direct military involvement. And in this hour nato officials are calling for quote a Firm International response. Not to act would september a dangerous signal that they can use chemical weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. President obama has repeated that same warning. Ly be watching live a i will be watching live when he is scheduled to talk. Live in washington, Kyla Campbell ktvu channel 2 news. Meantime president obama has told the pentagon to expand the list of potential targets in syria. That is according to the new york times. Its in response to the movement of syrian groups and thed a the just has intersetted an iron and other personsen if it went to iranian supported militia groups in iraq. President obama has caps led a trip to california on monday and will stay in washington. The president was scheduled to speak at an afl cio convention. An oakland man does not have enough time be the. To lowing an i that no and its just being that just hurts. Failly. A shoplifting suspect was Police Responded to to a when Police Arrived the man reportedly ran and fought off police and got into a car and tried to run down the officer. Police later chased down the car on highway 101 to san rafael where it crashed and the suspect was arrested. Police in Los Angeles Area are investigating a major scandal at four of the regions most financially troubled schools. They are charged with helping steal thousands of textbooks for a book buyer and selling them back to the schools. Investigators say a long beach businessman recruited the workers to take thousands of books from the schools in los angeles, uncle wood, and bell flower. Time 16 18. Two men from the bay area are in new orleans for the just for men National Beard and mustache championships. Napa resident brian whirly pictured there earned a third place medal last year in las vegas. The teacher has been growing facial hair for almost two years and nearly reached 16 inches. I like that its just for men. So women growing a beard, sal, sorry you cant enter. [ laughter ] sal, are you there . I am here. I am here. Just reminds me of a certain pitcher that we wont talk about. Oh yeah. Dont worry. Its working out for the best. Lets move on and take a look at westbound bay bridge. Moving on a little slowly. This is the first day here we observed traffic a little bet ere than normal. Well see what happens in the next half hour to 45 minutes. Just a warning its expected to be pretty crowded as weve been mentioning on the bridge. The giants and 49ers both have games this weekend. If you are driving on 237 and you are driving 55, westbound 237 traffic looks good. No major problems. Highway 101 the peninsula this commute is not bad on 101 as you drive over 280s also look good. We do have a great day shaping up. Already reporting clear. Ocean beach clear. There is a little bit of fog on the coast. A little bit. I dont think it stands much of a chance. Its going north to south than west to east. Temperatures will bump up much cooler lows for anyone here. 15 . Looks like down toward parts of the san mateo coast. But still not filling in on most of it. I dont think it has much of a chance today. The low is is still up in the pacific northwest. It is ejecting out. 49 tahoe. 52 ukiah. A little cool there. 73 down in san diego. High pressure from the pacific is beginning to build in. That gives us more of a northerly breeze. It looks good if there is fog there i dont think it will last too long. Sinking air will squash it. 70s and 80s and 90s. So inland temps a lot of low 90s. Around the bay 80s. Closer to the coast 60s and 70s. I did go 78 in San Francisco. I think things look pretty good here for awhile. For those on the coast i know everyone is cig where does our summer start . Well its september. It looks cooler on tuesday. There is a new report jc penny does not want to be in business with martha stewart. They are dumping the brand because of poor sales. Jc penny has been locked in a long legal battle with macys over a right to sell stewarts cook ware and linens. There are plans to attract a Major International tour to San Franciscos ferry plaza. They report this morning a company has been hired to market the waterfront building behind the ferry building. The port of San Francisco owns that building and it is encouraging the company that holds the lease to get a world class restaurant for that location. The Marketing Company says a big name restaurant could bring in 20 million a year to the stay. We want to follow breaking news coming out of Southern California. An explosion rocked a neighborhood just after 4 00 this morning. You can see these are live pictures from that area. You can see there are firefighters battling flames there. At lest one house was detroyed. A california firefights. A Southern California hospital and a doctor that works there is being sued by a patient. Veronica valdez works at thorns medical center. When she needed surgery on her finger she decided to have it at the hospital. The anesthesiologist put stickers on her face to look like a mustache and tear drops. The doctor says it was only a joke. There is really no such thing as a joke in the operating room played on someone that is dependent upon the people in the operating room to keep them alive. The hospital says it took disciplinary action against the doctor and nurses aid involved but it will take their jobs. The claims in the lawsuit are inaccurate. Exaggerated or fabricated. They have found the largest inactive volcano discovered on earth. I want to show you a digital image. It covers 120,000 square miles in comparison. Scientists are intrigued because this is a different shape than any other under water volcanos. Now 6 27. And its a new approach to overcome budget cuts and fire station closures. A Pilot Program begins this morning in Contra Costa County. How it eases the workload for firefighters but still insures the safety of the community. Also used car lot up in flames. What made that fire difficult to put out. Well have a live report from the scene. And we will take you live to the opening bell on wall street. See how investors react to the brand new employment report little surprising just came out. [ trina ] im a student at Devry University. And these are my roommates. This is one of my favorite professors. And so is this. This is my academic advisor. And also my cheerleader. And when i finish my degree in business. A new job, at a great company. Thats the graduation present i want. [ male announcer ] in 2012, 90 of Devry University grads actively seeking employment had careers in their field in 6 months. Find your career success in the bay area. Learn how at devry. Edu. Right on time the opening bell there in new york. We have hot, summer like weather. But they are talking hockey in new york. It seems like an early time to talk about hockey. But such a big guy there ringing the bell. Celebrating the opening season of National Hockey nhl there ringing the bell. Investors will be reacting to the employment report coming up. Steve paulson is looking closely. Do you recognize anybody there . I dont offhand, no. Okay. Big news Unemployment Rate dropped a little bit. Which is a bit of a surprise. As you can see lower part of your screen numbers are up. Well have all the Business News coming up. Time is 6 30 on the dot. Good morning. Thank you for joining us on the ktvu channel 2 morning news. Im brian flores in for dave clark. And im pam cook. Steve, warm, warm, nice weather. Yeah. I saw reports of areas that have been socked in on the coast are showing clear sky ifs there is some fog out there. Most will not last long. Patchy coast, fog, sunny and warmer. By wednesday i think temperatures plunge. 50s to very low 60s. A little cooler. Concord forecast today if you live or work in concord it will start off cool and get warm up. 91 today. Well go for a high. In San Francisco its all summer long its been the inland areas that warm up not the coast. But that will not be the case. Santa cruz looked really long. It will take us into the weekend. So temperatures 60s and 70s and 80s. A lot of this is not looking like a typical delay. Although some reason to the far left we are not seeing delays. So its a little better than usual. Its about a ten minute delay at the toll plaza. Its better than it was in the last few days. This is typical for a friday. Ten minutes on the toll plaza aye. Also toll plaza westbound. I want to talk about Contra Costa County highway 4 a little slow. It looks good to concord. And then as we move to Solano County highway 37 right there. This is a lot of slow traffic heading over to marin county. 6 32 lets go back to the desk. Thank you. We want to ever it damaged a home, office space, and troyed several homes. Reporter in the last half hour i also talked to the owner of this building. You can see some folks standing right there. They are going in and taking a look at the damage. We have a better idea of exactly what was happening on the property. The owner says they bought this about a year ago. The year you are looking at night is a and is. In the center of the construction was a living space. The man was renting that space for about a year. He was here at the same of the fire and so was a woman now lets take a look at the fear when firefighters got here they say three quarters of the structure was already burning. They had it under control at 4 15 but couldnt get close because of down power lines. We talked to the battalion chief about the challenges they face. We were behind highwayed a high power tex if and we we had to wait for pg e to get here. Ever and mode will ever and just redid all of the electrical. Hes not sure how this started. He did say he have problems with a tent than that was tenant that was living here. And that is one thing they will be looking at. They have just told us the owners have given us permission to get a little closer to get in to take a look at what it looks like inside. We will do that right foul and well bring you those pictures coming up on mornings on 2. Live in martinez Claudine Wong ktvu channel 2 news. New this morning at 6 35. Three people are in the hospital after the car they were traveling in crashed into a water main. Police say some tried to run away. Ktvu janine de la vega is joining us live from the scene to tell us they have been found and what is happening at the school. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The School Facilities manager here at Terrell Elementary School is working to fix this broken water main. You can see here they exposed pipe and cage right next to it which is crumpled because a car slammed into it. School will open up in a couple hours. Police say some of the people that are inside the car that crashed into this tried to get away. But they have been