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KTVU Mornings On 2 April 6, 2012



welcome to mornings on 2! >> it is friday, april 6th. right now, fremont police remain at the scene of a homicide. it happened around 11:00 last night. ktvu's allie rasmus was the first reporter on the scene at 4:30 this morning and joins us live with what police and neighbors are saying. >> reporter: we just got an update from fremont police. they told us about the victim of this fatal shooting. he's a 20-year-old resident of fremont, and it was around 11:00 last nights when neighbors reported hearing gunfire. several shots ringing out in front of that apartment building behind us. you see it's a pretty residential area, there's some people walking out of that apartment complex this morning. investigators have been here since 11:00 last night. the victim of that gunshot wound was -- passed away at the hospital. this is central avenue between joseph and several neighbors have come up to us to tell us what they saw and heard before the shooting. one neighbor heard what sounded like an argument between several people outside the apartment, followed by several gunshots. police are still looking for a suspect or suspects involved. the victim was from fremont but did not live in the apartment building where he was shot. >> we're pretty early in the investigation so there's a lot of things we'll be looking at. one will be motive, why he was here, what happened, immediately before the shooting, whether or not it's gang-related, and that's something that we'll have later on. >> reporter: investigators are still here at the scene talking to some of the residents, talking to potential hours after the shooting happened. and central avenue between duster bury and joseph is still shut to traffic. there's crime scene tape set up blocking the entire intersection, and we have seen some police officers have to turn around and turn away some of the vehicles trying to get through on this main thoroughfare. this intersection is probably going to be shut down for the next couple hours, as the investigation continues. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. also in fremont, an overnight fire is being investigated. it started at 1:45 this morning inside the a cafe at a strip mall on thornton avenue. firefighters believe the fire started in the kitchen. the restaurant was closed at the time, and no firefighters were hurt. it took about 30 minutes to put the fire out. no other businesses at the strip mall were affected. for the first time in three days, students from oikos university in oakland went back to the school last night. a shooting rampage on monday that left seven people dead forced the school to close. now we've also learned that police escorted those students into the school last night so they could retrieve any belongings they left behind after the shooting. however, the school itself remains closed. and just a half mile away from the university, police carefully sifted through every piece of trash from a garbage can. this happened yesterday at a bus stop. the police responded to the area after someone called and said they saw a gun in that trash can. however, no gun was found. all week long, police have been trying to recover the gun used in the oikos university massacre. make sure you stay right here with ktvu mornings on 2. coming up at 7:30, tara moriarity will be back with more on the investigation, including the name of the intended target. it's 7:04. a sexual assault suspect is now in custody in a case involving attacks on at least three girls in oakland. police arrested 20-year-old binge yang this week. an alert citizen stopped an attack in progress and stopped the suspect from escaping. he is accused of sexually attacking the girls near oakland fruitvale avenue. police did not say when the attacks occurred. the founder of oakster dam university plans to give up ownership of the school. los angeles times reports richard lee made that decision after this week's raid on oakster dam. mornings on 2 was first to report that raid on monday morning. federal agents seized nearly everything inside the business in downtown oakland, including pot plants, bank account records, and computers. oakster dam university remains open although its classes have been scaled back. it's america's first marijuana trade school. police in palo alto using social media to try to battle a recent crime wave. using facebook, twitter and other sites to interact with residents, including this map you're looking at showing locations of recent home burglaries. palo alto saw a steady rise in residential burglaries from 2010 to 2011, and they received a report of 71 so far this year. the map you're looking at is updated every week. as we speak, hundreds of protestors are holding demonstrations right outside the main gate of the livermore lab. these are live pictures, one of the speakers standing in front of a microphone right there. and there's a car and other activity behind them. now, this protest involves religious and anti-nuclear groups getting a wider prosecutor now, individual there, every year on this day good friday. they're demanding the u.s. stop developing and storing nuclear weapons. the demonstrators say the disaster in japan pointed out the problems with any kind of nuclear development. several new options are now under consideration to stop erosion at san francisco's ocean beach. the chronicle reports the army corps of engineers is considering pumping sand to the hardest hit zones at the beach to form a sand dune. that plan will cost 5 to $8 million and is only a temporary solution. another idea calls foreclosing the great hee south of -- boulevard to allow more inland erosion. pretty picture! >> it is pretty. >> sal, is it a pretty picture at the toll plaza? >> it sure is. it's good friday. a lot of people have the day off, some schools are off, and the markets financial markets are closed. and that means a lot of people associated with that have the day off. let's take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. it is light. you're not waiting for a long time. and the traffic has been good even when we've had crashes. it's been so light, that things have cleared up rather quickly. let's move to another live picture. this is 880. we had a crash at 6:30 that blocked two lanes. it did move into the shoulder, but if this were a normal day we would see backed up traffic but it's not. and the morning commute in concord looks good, even antioch. little bit of a slowdown, not a big one. and you can deal with just a little bit of slow traffic heading west through that construction zone. let's go to steve. >> all right. thank you. sunrise over the big city, mostly clear. it will be a nice day once we get going. it's cold out there! mostly clear, cold, sunshine by noon. mostly sunny 4:00 yesterday afternoon thunderstorms popped up, clouds, showers, lake county, mendocino, napa county, solano, that will not be the case today. there could be a few puffy clouds. i mean, for january, february or -- okay, i believe it! but for early april, these are cold! roadwood city is 39. hayward 39. 30s in san practice fell, santa rosa. mike morrison at the airport, all the the anti-frost machines are working for the vineyards. there's some cold minimums up there. napa in 30s. fairfield, san jose near there, upper 30s. also on the peninsula. frost advisory until 8:00 for the north bay. once we hit about 8:00, temperatures will bounce up fast. the nights are just not that long. so for temperatures to make it this cold, this time of year, really is impressive. and for mendocino coming up, a hard freeze warning. lot of 20s and also into lake county. the end result is after these cold readings in the morning we will have sunshine and warmer weather today. yesterday lot of 50s. san francisco only 52. and seems cool to me but there's some 30s in san francisco now. and all in the upper 30s. we'll have temperatates 50s and low to mid-60s today. right there. thunderstorms towards tracy and stockton yesterday, all that is gone. but cold air in place. that will get modified here today and then also into tomorrow. so lots of sun. it will be warmer. sunday a little tricky, i think north bay will get some cloud cover but overall sunday should be fine. but then sunday night into monday we'll cloud up and looks like rain returns early next week. mostly sunny today, cold morning as you know, and little warmer on the temps in the afternoon side. a's home opener, clear, chilly. temperatures in the 50s in the start off with, upper 40s by the latter innings. upper 50s, lower 60s around the bay. mid-60s inland. temperatures rebounding. san jose 65. redwood city, livermore 63. pleasanton 64. warmer on saturday, a south wind on sunday means even warmer but clouds north will cloud up monday. rain for everybody tuesday. police in manteca searching now for a fake cop who sexually assaulted a woman. the woman told police this fake police officer persuaded her to follow him into a dark alley, that's where she was assaulted. police say the man was driving a guy mid-size car that had chrome rims and tinted win domes residents in the area are now on alert. >> it's bold. that's why we're concerned. >> sick man. if they haven't caught him yet, who notion if he'll strike again. >> it's a white man, 25 years old, 5-foot 10 inches tall, wearing a dark blue jacket with white stripes on the sleeves. an experienced skydiver is dead after a parachute malfunction. the victim's first parachute opened but malfunctioned and his backup parachute didn't open. the man landed in a vineyard. he is not identified but friends say the man is around 70 years old and was an experienced skydiver had had jumped thousands of times. the federal aviation administration is investigating. time is 7:11. the government's new job numbers from march just came out about 90 minutes ago. even though the numbers are positive, we'll tell you why many are disappointed. and there's a hole connection to the nearly million dollar government agency boondoggle in las vegas. and how much is your commute cost? we're now finding out the cost for leon panetta to fly back home to monterey and why it had to be a military jet. hey guys, breakfast! ♪ [ female announcer ] if whole grain isn't the first ingredient in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first on the side. from honey nut cheerios to cinnamon toast crunch to lucky charms, get more whole grain than any other ingredient... without question. just look for the white check. mostly clear can cold. blossom hill frost on the rooftops. a frost advisory in the north bay until 8 but sunny today and warmer. upper 50s, low to mid-50s. the labor department's report on the march unemployment rate is both good and bad news. the unemployment rate fell slightly to 8.2%. as more people dropped out the labor market and stopped looking for jobs. most experts had expected the unemployment rate to hold steady at 8.3. they had also forecast the economy would add at least 200,000 jobs last month. instead, only 120,000 now jobs were created. there's no reaction in the stock market today since it's closed for good friday. a federal worker from california reportedly is at the center of a government spending scandal. ktvu's scott mcfarland reports this morning's washington post is saying a man named jeffrey neely planned a party that was paid for by taxpayers in a very expensive resort. scott. >> reporter: that man was head of all california federal buildings, according to that report in the washington post. there are now two congress al committees investigating this lavish party at the general services administration. the gsa. first the video just released from the u.s. house oversight committee, one of those two committees, just released this video which shows the awards ceremony that took part -- at the end of the 2010 party. that shindig at the gsa cost $800,000 at the posh resort in vegas, sushi, commemorative cowlings, a clown, a mind reader. the u.s. house transportation committee, other committee investigating, tells us it will stage an investigative hearing into the party april 19th. >> there were policies and procedures that were not followed and things happened on a scale that makes it pretty shocking that no one in the chain of command said, wait a minute, this is out of control. >> we're told president obama was briefed on the details of the investigation into this party from the internal auditors at the gsa, the head that agency, the head of that agency which oversees thousands of workers and all federal buildings nationwide was forced out earlier this week. scott mcfarland, ktvu channel 2 news. defense secretary leon panetta has a very expensive commute, to and from his house in the monterey area. he has flown on military planes to his home, more than two dozen times since last july, at a cost of $32,000 each. the government says secretary panetta is required to pay about $630 for every round-trip flight. he has to fly on military jets for security reasons. a military board is recommending that a southern california marine who criticized president obama on facebook be dismissed from the military. sergeant gary stein called president obama a coward and the enemy on his facebook page. the pentagon rules limit the political activities of u.s. service members. but stein's lawyers say he was expressing his personal views and exercising his first amendment rights. the board's recommendations will now go to a general. it is 7:17. republican presidential candidate ron paul received a hero's welcome in an appearance at uc berkeley. >> we do not have the facilities, the moral authority, nor the constitutional authority to go around the world and tell other people what they must do and how to run their country! [cheering] >> paul's position against foreign intervention seems to resonate with youngser people. his speech was scheduled for the hall at berkeley but moved outside because of so many people showed up. >> these people are down to earth, and they are -- seem like there are some kooks supporting ron paul. we truly believe he will be the best. >> he is reaching out to college we den have that much power, we're broke, it shows human aspect of him and i definitely appreciated that. >> earlier yesterday, ron paul appeared at a fund-raiser in san francisco. he seems determined to stay in the g.o.p. presidential race despite trailing battling the polls and the delegate count. at ktvu.com we posted more video from the address at uc berkeley. you'll find it on the bay area news tab. santa monica community college students held a rally protesting a proposed new system for paying for classes. the system would charge students more tuition to take more popular classes. it's only in the planning stages now, and a spokesman for california community colleges says they're seeking advice from the attorney general's office about whether or not the plan is even legal. the san francisco planning commission gave preliminary approval to a new hospital redevelopment plan. labor and civic leaders held this rally outside the commission meeting yesterday, supporting california pacific medical center's plan to redevelop its four campuses. supporters say the project will create 1500 construction jobs. the planning commission voted to begin the review process. and a federal judge approved a 25 billion-dollar mortgage settlement with five of the largest u.s. banks. the five banks include wells fargo, bank of america, ally, j.p. morgan chase and citigroup. they're going to pay $5 billion in cash to federal and state governments for foreclosure abuses and misconduct in servicing home loans. the additional $20 billion will include cuts to mortgage debt amounts and also restructuring of some troubled loans. lawyers for the man accused of fatally shooting a florida teenager says newly enhanced audio of a 911 call proves george zimmerman did not use a racial slur. lawyers say that's zimmerman saying, "punks "after an expletive before he shot trayvon martin in february, it was thought he may have used a racial slur. zimmerman was patrolling as a neighborhood watch volunteer and says martin attacked him so he shot the teenager in self- defense. the secretary d.a. is criticize ode for locking up a teenage victim of an alleged rape. prosecutors say they locked up the 17-year-old girl to make sure she testifies in the case. she failed to show up at a preliminary hearing and has a history of running away. the d.a. says the alleged rapist is likely to rape again, unless he is convicted. the girl has been in juvenile hall for the past two weeks. a hearing this morning will determine if she should be set free. it's early but we want to go about our beth it will be mostly sunny, as we look out the window. but will it be warmer? steve has your easter weekend forecast next. a teenager stranded on the rocks near san francisco's cliff house, the daring rescue to get him to dry land. >> good morning. it's looking good so far in the south bay here on northbound 101. you can see traffic looks good. it will you more about the morning commute and the trouble spots! a teenager had to be rescued after he got stranded on some rocks at lands end in san francisco. some diner as the live house noticed him and notified authorities. rescue crews used a long board to bring the boy back to shore. he was taken to the hospital but is not seriously injured which is quite fortunate. >> you can tell that was not an easy rescue. time is 7:23. sal is back. he says we have a pretty easy commute so far this morning. >> yes, it's good friday. some financial people have the day off. other people also. i see something moving around on my screen. this is cool. there you go. traffic is moving along relatively well on 237. i watch the tv screens, don't think i don't. traffic looks good especially on day like today when we don't have a lot going on. i check in with the chp, list here, and westbound 92 looks good along with all the traffic that we've seen. couple things out there have turned into very minor things. we had a crash northbound 880 at high street that was cleared and almost the backup went away. 24. >> lots of cold readings out there, frost advisory north bay until 8:00 but there is in san francisco, to the south bay, east bay, all over the place. in fact even all the way up to crescent city. 34, cold for crescent city. and around here santa rosa, wind machines going, anti-frost for the vineyards. there's a lot of critical minimums to the north. look at the 30s. this is something you see in february. not april. but it's a cold air mass so frost advisory until 8:00. thunderstorm activity in the clouds and some of had rain was developed yesterday will not take place today. the source has moved off into idaho up by boise. it's on its way to the intermountain region. it's gone. the next system wrapping up will start to give clouds in the north bay on sunday but rain coming in late sunday, early monday for them. mostly sunny, a cold morning, a little warmer in the afternoon highs some upper 50s, low 60s. a few mid-60s as temperatures start to rebound from yesterday. really cold readings. now clear tonight if you're at the a's home opener but chilly so dress appropriately. starting in the 50s, ending up in the upper 40s. warmer saturday, partly cloudy in the north, mostly fair to the south. monday increasing clouds, rain light on tuesday for everybody. >> thank you. it's coming up on 7:26. more trouble on the tracks in oakland. how an overnight crash is affecting train service this morning. >> reporter: a's fans are paying their respects to the victims of the oikos university tragedy. >> san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi goes back to court, critical question a judge will ask him today. they say that with

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