Good morning, to you. Welcome to a brand new day middle of the week. Its wednesday december 5th im dave clark. And im pam cook. Thank you for waking up with us. Steve says little drizzly out there. Will it last most of the day . Right rain. There has been a little heavier out toward hercules. Its coming through. But again this is far weeker than anything we have seen. But still rain is here. But overall this is a much weaker system we will get rain throughout the day. Well take a closer look at this rain. This is a look at highway 24 through lafayette. And 880 near the Oakland Coliseum traffic is moving pretty well. It is wet out there. We do have an accident we want to tell you about coming up in a couple minutes. Lets head back to the desk. Topping our news this Morning Police in berkeley are still on the scene where a bicyclist was shot and killed outside of a middle school. We will take you out there live at the scene you can see what is going on. This is Long Fellow Middle School. Police rushed there after reports of the shooting. They are still out there collecting evidence and looking for clues. A man on a bicycle was shot at least once on the the street. There is no word of motive. Four people were shot and wounded near oakland lake merritt and they are being treated for serious injuries. Claudine wong is outside the Oakland Police headquarters with the very latest details on their condition. Reporter i talked to to an Oakland Police sergeant within the last hour. Still very early on. Keep in mind there is two different crime scenes. Officers have been to both crime scenes. They have been to the hospital talking to the four victims. Lets take you what happened overnight. All of the victims are in serious condition but all expected to survive. Police say they got multiple 911 calls about 10 20 last night. People calling in to tell them they heard multiple gunshots. They got to the 600 block of east 18th and found three victims in their 20s. Two men and one woman who was standing on the street where more than one gunman started firing. But that was only one crime scene three blocks away they found another with yet another victim. A man in his 50s that was also hit bedpan fire. Right now it appears he is an unintended target and he was getting ready to go into the liquor store. Reporter he is also in serious condition but also expected to survive. Police couldnt give us a motive or any possible mote i for the shooting and didnt have any suspect information. But again we do believe there is is more than one gunman. We have been told there are multiple shooters and we are also being told it was a vehicle involved although we havent been given any vehicle information. All this comes hours before the mayor plans to hold a town hall meeting. That is going to happen tonight and one of the topics for discussion will be public safety. Live here in oakland Claudine Wong ktvu channel 2 news. Time now 5 03. There is a new warning in palo alto after two recent attacks on women near the downtown area. Janine de la vega is in palo alto to tell us how the police are responding to this. Good morning, janine. Reporter good morning, dave. They are ramping up their efforts. Both assaults and attempted robberies happened here in downtown palo alto. Both of the victims are women. The latest attack happened here in the 300 block of University Avenue on sunday morning a woman in her 70s was asleep in an alcove of a vacant business. When she woke up to a man reaching inside her pockets. She pushed him away but the man started punching her in the head, face, and chest and ran away. Lets go to a map to show you where the other incident happened about 15 minutes prior. A woman in her 30s was walking on homer avenue and she was pushed to the ground from behind by a man who tried to take her purse. Police say when she resisted the man punched her six to eight times in the face and ran away empty handed. The description of the suspect is the same. One of the victims identified him as being black. The other didnt get a good look at what race he was. Because of the close proxity of the incident an similarities investigators believe it is the same man. They have increased their patrols here in the downtown area to thwart any attempted attacks. When we did drive in today we did see police cars here. Reporting love janine de la vega. We are on storm watch again this morning. The rain definitely coming down. Todays storm is not expected to be assed with. Let me show you what it looks like in downtown san jose. Sandbags are piled up outside of goodmans hardwood store. It was floating from the street coming this way inside. And the garden area was about six inches and redwood aisle he was about a foot. San rafael public works Officials Say hundreds of sandbags are available at designated fire stations. In a few minutes Steve Paulson will be here to tell us how much rain we will get today. Dont forget you can get up to the minute Weather Information by down loading the ktvu app or also go to our website ktvu. Com and look for the storm watch tab at the top of our home page. And we provide updates on facebook and twitter. San Jose City Council anonymously approved changing a city hall to allow airport employees to shoot at birds to scare them away. Trained employees as well as biologists. 180 bird strikes have been reported at san jose airport since 2009. President obama is expected to announce his nominees for secretaries of state and defense. That is according to our white house sources. Reportedly former republican senator chuck hague l is on the short list of possible choices for secretary of defense. Replacing leon panetta who is stepping down. Another top contender senator john kerry. He is also looking at john kerry for a possible secretary of state. Or he may go with susan rice the u. S. Ambassador to the united nations. President obama meets with two very different groups. Both have concerns about the fiscal cliff conference. And remember he meets with them top ceos. Coming up the one issue where president obama is refusing to budge in those fiscal cliff negotiations. Right now 5 07. We want to check back in with tara who is in for sal. Definitely wet roads out there. Reporter we do have an accident to report. This is a big rig verses a small pickup truck and an ambulance is on the way. We understand there are injuries involved. Here it is right here. 880 northbound near the grand avenue exit. We had somebody needs an ambulance basically. We are keeping an eye on it. All right. Up next we will take a live look at 280 in san jose. You can see traffic is actually flowing nicely in both directions. And its 5 08 lets check in with steve. Thank you tara. Our system is finally moving. This is the last one. It cannot hold a candle to the three that came in before. I will show you rain totals in a second. Light rain, drizzle, fog, cloudy. Once in awhile moderate rain falls. Our system the most amounts were left in the north bay. Quarter to an inch of rain. Lighter amounts will be south. Might get little enhancement. There is not much of a breeze. Kind of like a gray showery pattern will linger into the afternoon. This is the last one. Santa rosa had almost an inch of rain. There is heavier amounts toward the Russian River. St. Helena twothirds of an inch. Napa half inch of rain. Kentfield only. 18. And crockett had 15. Things are a lot less. You can see some of that beginning to slide south. Out of santa rosa area. Heading from marin county toward the east bay. We had a couple reports of more moderate rains. Especially around vallejo but it looks like that is moving through. Concord right now highway 4 a little enhancement. Back over toward east bay. Little bit there. Offshore you can see there is definitely some heading towards the city and san mateo coast. Really mild. 50s and 60s. 63 balmy degrees in livermore. Our whole system will plot along giving us a gray day with occasionally light rain and fog as we said. Temperatures on the mild side. Nothing too heavy here. Maybe some of the higher elevations. 60s on the temps. This is it for this pattern. Things will change or dry out. Youll have to deal with a ton of fog nights and mornings thursday and friday. A brazen theft got a Christmas Tree lot that was supporting boy scouts. Well tell you what was stolen and how the finances of east bay scouting troops will be effected by this. Im just going to go ahead and announcement my retirement from stand up. Katt williams calls it quits after another run in police. And heres a look at 280 in san jose. We dont have too many problems. We do have wet roadways. 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Along with garlands, tools, and a heater used by the boy scouts and parents. Sales of Christmas Trees and holiday items makes up about 20 of the piedmont boy scouts budget. Also a thief near san diego stole a Salvation Army red kettles proceeds for one night. It happened inest canto toe. The bell ringer stepped away from his red kettle to try to help someone that is when the thief came in and ran away with the kettle and the estimated 300 inside. Donations are already at an all time low while requests for help are running very high. New this morning north korea appears to be moving closer to launching a missile capable of carrying a nuclear war head. It appears north korea has finished installing a rocket. That means north korea could be on target for launch as soon as monday. North korea denies having a Nuclear Weapons program but says it plans to launch a rocket for science and Research Purposes before december 22nd. U. N. Secretary general says he does not favor an asylum deal for assad. In an interview he says anyone who commits Human Rights Violations must be held accountable. He also warned assad today of huge consequences if he decides to introduce chemical weapons into the conflict. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton also warned syria of a Swift Response from the u. S. If chemical weapons are used. As the fiscal cliff looms president obama is digging in his heels. Ktvu alison burns reports the president says the wealthiest americans must pay higher taxes. Alison. Reporter the president is refusing to agree to anything else unless taxes are raised on the wealthiest 2 of americans. In fact, there are some reports this morning that the president isnt even going to hold any other face to face or one on one meetings with republicans until they cave on that demand. John boehner was at the lighting of the if Christmas Tree last night. Republicans are instead offering to close tax loopholes and limit Tax Deductions that favor the wealthy while extending current tax rates for the middle class. Frustration is clearly growing on both sides. Speakers proposal right now is is still out of balance. We wasted an enormous amount of time here sparring back and forth in public. It strikes me as a good time to get serious about the proposals. Reporter a very big potential problem for Speaker Boehner even if hes willing to compromise with president obama, people within his own party are not are already saying they wont be willing to go along. Ill have more on that during my next update. Reporting live from washington, d. C. Alison burns ktvu channel 2 news. Controversial Comedian Katt Williams says hes done. Hes quitting stand up comedy after another run in with the law. Im just going to go ahead and announce my retirement from stand up. Im kind of done. Katt williams made that announcement outside of a hotel sunday night after being kicked out of the hotel. On sunday he was taken to jail accused of fight inside of a bar in seattle. Now his tour stop in oakland you may remember was cut short by an on stage meltdown the one youre looking at here. Also a beckly man accused williams of hitting him in the head with a bottle. He is also accused of leading police on a chase in downtown sacramento. Police in fremont searching for a suspect blamed for several robberies. A felony arrest warrant issued for kane barzeal. He described as a light skinned 18yearold man about 511 weighing about 180 pounds with black hair. He may be living in oakland or in his hometown of benicia. San Francisco Police are using a new tool to help solve crimes. The public can use it to High Pressure send in tips and get involved. What police plan to do each week to close unsolved cases. Time now 5 18. Lets bring tara back. If youre going out driving its wet. The roads are wet so be careful. That is right. We dont have that big storm blowing through. We do have slippery conditions on the roadways. So make sure you take it easy out there on the roadways. Right now we will take a live look here at the bay bridge toll plaza. Folks should go just under the speed limit i think its pretty safe for the bay bridge this morning. We have a look at our maps. We want to show you a pair of accidents in the richmond area. This is 80 westbound. And then we also have right lanes blocked here on 80 eastbound at buchanon street. Be aware of that. Down in the south bay 280 san jose you can see traffic is flowing nicely in both directions. 5 18 here is steve. Thank you, tara. Rain, light. Picking up for some. Light rain will continue this afternoon. The system will weaken. There will be a window we can get moderate rain. First take you out toward highway 4 concord, clayton. But its moving quick. It looks like it has moved through martinez. Back over toward parts of the east bay. San francisco over to oakland a little heavier toward san rafael. Looks like right there on the san rafael side of the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Off the coast you can see right off the marin coast in San Francisco there is a little bit stronger cells inching closer. Its not cold its really mild. If you dont have rain cloudy conditions and foggy. There is a little low right there. That will give us enhancement here in the morning. Look for cloudy skies and rain. Just kind of a foggy rainy day. 60s on the temps. Even the lows or upper 50s to near 60 for some. We wont see much of a change on the temperatures from lows to highs. The rain will end tonight. Fog very, very thick. I think north bay, east bay out to the valley it will be a big issue here. It does look quieter. Breezy. That should wipe out the fog. Right now the european markets are all trading higher this morning. Overnight the asian markets closed with gains as well. 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Visit vwdealer. Com today. Welcome back. Time now 5 24. New Crime Fighting tool for san Francisco Police. Every week Police Officers will post videos like this one you are looking at right here on a website called the lineup. They hope people will see the videos and then report tips. Now this Surveillance Video look at this a man using a stun gun to attack another man. This happened about three weeks ago about 9 30 at night on polk street. Police drib the suspect as describe