well, good morning to you. i'm dave clark. >> i'm tori campbell. it's wednesday, june 13th. let's go straight to sal, we're looking at downed power lines. >> wean winston and amador, right in front -- between winston and amador right in front of the county buildings here. the street is completely shut down because of the power lines. this area is heavily is -- heavy is traveled in the morning. it's a way to get to some of the government buildings and the courthouse, well, you can't do that today. this will be a big problem for you this morning if you are driving through there or need to get there. many areas are without power. they've given us an estimate and say the power should be restored by about -- by about 8:30. so another hour and a half. we'll have more from the scene coming up at 7:01. let's go back to the desk. >> thank you, sal. an arson investigation on the peninsula, a suspicious fire caused major damage to a redwood city apartment complex and left dozens of people homeless. lorraine blanco joins us live. you just spoke to a fire victim. >> reporter: yes, i did. i just spoke to a boy who escaped the fire this morning. he said bad things have happened to cars in this area before but nothing like this. you can see the investigation is still going on behind me where you see those charred cars in a carport. the battalion chief say there is a couple of things that make this suspicious. a few cars began to burn at one time. two units were destroyed here. another six units have water damage. this man says he grabbed his two sisters and department have time to take anything else. >> i ran outside. three cars blew up at the same time. and then i -- i was standing in the middle and i yelled to everybody, get out! and my mom -- i told my mom to call the firefighters. >> reporter: sadly, jose also told us a neighbor's dog died in the fire. the american red cross is helping families with food and shelter. no injuries reported. 27 people got out safely. five cars were destroyed. they say more cars have some type of damage. lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. a boy was shot and killed right in front of an elementary school in san jose. police say the boy was walking outside of rocket mosaic elementary school when someone in a car opened fire. he was shot several times and died at the scene. this happened at 6:20 yesterday evening. investigators remained on the scene in the night. neighbors say the area is known for gang activity. there's still no motive in the shooting and no arrests have been made. the parents are clinging to hope -- the parents of sierra lamar are clinging to hope their daughter is alive. they will be announcing that they are raising the reward. there will be an announcement about how the reward has changed and the criteria. neighbor nurses are getting ready to strike. tara moriarty is outside of alta bates summit center. there will be a picket line there. >> reporter: that's right. you can see them walking in circles there. they just started chanting here. more than 4400 nurses expected to be on the picket lines for a one-day strike throughout the bay area. one of the hospitals in oakland. their contract expired last summer. neighbors say they are upset because their company wants to take away large portions of their long-standing contracts. >> they are taking away from the nurses our benefits and what we already have. we know for a fact that the hospital corporations did not take a hit with the recession. they are taking advantage of this -- of this opportunity when people are down. >> reporter: now, a sutter health advertisement says nurses on average make $136,000 a year. >> the union is asking for new costly benefits like double- digit wage increases and free healthcare for life that would increase the cost of healthcare by thousands of dollars. >> reporter: now, the hospital says it will not be making any comment until 9:00 this morning. sutter has hired replacement nurses but they had to do so for five days. so when these nurses get off strike, they won't able to return to their jobs right away. tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right, tara. here is a map of the hospitals that are affected by this one- day walkout. three alta bates summit facilities in oakland and berkeley. mills in bur langton and -- in burlington and san mateo. sutter delta in antioch, sutter solano in vallejo and novato community hospital. nurses are walking out of petaluma community hospital, which, by the way, is not sutter owned. well, the controversial project to revamp a vallejo park is due to be completed this weekend. last summer, neighbors camped out for three months. they were protesting the project because they believe that park includes an ancient burial ground. the group left when the park district craps planned for new bathrooms and handicapped parking. however, some of the activities are still concerned about some of the trees out there. they plan to revisit this saturday. we want to check in with sal again regarding the power lines. i imagine that's causing some power problems. >> that's light, if you are driving toward the government building. this power line came down. not sure how it did. but we did see the broken power line between winton and amador street. that street is blocked off by hayward police. the power is out for a lot of residents in hayward. these day your power is out and you get -- these days if your wow is out and you -- if your power is out and if you have a friend who lives in this area of hayward, you may want to give them a wakeup call and they are gonna be late. let's take a look at some some other pictures from traffic. bay bridge toll plaza that's backed up for about a 10 to 15- minute delay. no major problems getting into san francisco. livermore sal valley getting busy use on 508 coming in from tracy to livermore. it gets better by dublin. across the bay to the hayward/san mateo bridge area, that looks pretty good. and in santa clara area, pockets to sunnyvale, hello, steve. >> hello, sal. >> look, the sun is right behind you. >> oh, that thing. the future is so bright -- well, unless you have fog and there's a lot of fog out there. a who couple of report reports coming in -- a couple of reports coming in it's foggy. cooler for all today. fog, drizzle, sunny, breezy. local drizzle, too, out toward the coast. there's been some reports. cooling trend started for most. it will be for everybody today. concord, 898. not today. right at 80 for concord, the city from 71 to 62. remember, on sunday, san francisco was 82 degrees. daly city, 63. today, 58 degrees. big, old fog bank. in fact, set for almost -- sonoma county, i kid you not from seattle to san diego. it looks like it's rather solid. sonoma coast is pulls off. westerly southwesterly, any way you slice it. it's a sea breeze direction. it's definitely cranked out. it will be with us. kind of breezy, windy in spots already. we'll see a decrease in that. some of that fog heads back to the coast. 50 in san francisco, 57 san jose. san jose is cloudy. now the three web cameras from the san jose meteorology department, all cloudy. fog, sun, cooler today. fog, drizzle in the morning. a little breezy, blustery at times. the wind cranks up out toward the delta. 60s, 70s, 80s. coming down from those in the mid-90s. still, it's really tough once you get the heat established to cool off areas out towards solano, contra costa county. it will be cool for many. alameda 64. 75 san jose. 68 santa cruz. 50s on much of the san mateo coast. 60s in the city. south san francisco or peninsula, mainly upper 60s and not too much fog. i don't see much change on thursday. tori and dave? >> all right. thank you, steve. happening right now -- j.p. morgan chase ceo jamie die mon is testifying before the -- dimon is testifying before the committee about the $2 billion trading loss. coming up, the apology he's expected to give the senators. a ucsf employee accused of stealing $1,000 from a fund to benefit transplant patients is due back in court today. the 30-year-old has pleaded not guilty to grand theft charges. according to the chronicle, she used to work pass a campus finance manager and allegedly faked more than 30 reimbursements for travel, phone calls and dog care. her bail is set at $100,000. arizona has a new congressman this morning, at least for now. why the victory by gabby giffords' former aide is only guaranteed in the seat for five months. we'll give you a rare look what we found inside an abandoned home in the east bay and why neighbors were so released, squatters were supposed to leave. and the arrest of a mexican drug cartel. the reason this went down at a horse farm in oklahoma. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] go from being on the road to being on vacation. hilton honors. the guest loyalty program with over thirty-eight hundred hotels worldwide. for some, waking up to sunshine. for others, there's fog and even for a few there's pretty good drizzle out there. it will an great morning alox the coast and bay. 60s, 70s for most. thank you, steve. russian's foreign minister says providing the syrian government with weapons does not violate any international law and he accused the u.s. of providing weapons to the syrian opposition. yesterday, secretary of state hillary clinton accused russia of escalating the conflict in syria by providing the government with attack helicopters. today, president obama, will meet with israeli president shim mon peres at the white house and -- shimon peres at the white house and he will present him with a medal of freedom honor. peres is being -- is being recognized for his efforts to achieve peace in the middle east. he was not able to attend the white house ceremony last night with the other recipients. fbi agents have arrested the king pin of mexico's largest cartel. they took him into custody yesterday during a raid. they say the cartel laundered a million dollars a month through the breeding of horse races. they nailed the horses after drug cartels and winning several races. 7:15. happening right now, the head of banking giant, j.p. morgan chase, is testifying on capitol hill. ceo jamie dimon will apologize for the $2 billion loss. scott macfarlane is covering the hearing. >> reporter: jamie dimon has taken his seat but has not started yet. that's senator shelby from alabama. this hearing began with protests. [chanting] >> reporter: those protesters escorted out of the room by police. dimon will face tough questions about how this banking giant managed to botch its work and lose $2 billion so quickly. an advanced portion of his testimony will say that he did not have an understanding of the risks they took. >> officials have assured our committee that their firm's stability of our financial system are not in jeopardy at this time. >> reporter: we will expect a fierce debate here. scott macfarlane, ktvu channel 2 news. only on 2, police in antioch arrested several squatters accused of taking over a foreclosed house on parkview court. look at these pictures. on monday, the neighbors asked neighbors put a leash on their pit bulldog but one of them allegedly pulled out a gun instead. police cited them for trespassing. inside the house police found drug paraphernalia, a weapon and also racial slurs written on the walls of the bedroom. >> lot of people moving in and then out and then another couple moves in. it was endless. >> the previous homeowner is still listed on the property records and is still legally responsible for this house. we're learning more about last weekend's deadly shooting in fresno county. investigators say avtar singh killedly wife and two children before turning the gun on himself. natural agents say he's -- federal agents say he's a former officer from india who lived in the u.s. illegally for at least five years. investigators also say he was wanted for murder in his homeland. police still don't have a motive in saturday's killing. the wife of the man who shot and killed trayvon martin in florida is free on $1,000 bond. shelley simmer dna was arrested -- shellie zimmerman was arrested on a perjury charge. just before the bond hearing, bank records show the zimmermans transferred $73,000 from his account to hers. george zimmerman is currently behind bars arthe -- after the judge revoked his bonds. and funeral services will be held -- will be held for tarhonda jones. he she was shot and killed. police say her boyfriend shot and killed her. a warrant has been issued for him. police say he should be considered armed and dangerous. family and friends will gather for a private viewing later on today. a new presidential poll shows that obama's lates have did dropped -- ratings have dropped from 50% to 47%. and president obama has a 1% lead over mitt romney. a former aide to congressman gabrielle giffords won a special election in arizona to finish out her term. >> gabby! gabby! gabby! >> giffords appeared with barber. she hand-picked the aide she wanted to take over. barber will have to run for election in november. arizona's governor is getting ready to enforce her state's controversial immigration law. jan brewer is sending a training video to law enforcement agencies. the video outlines when officers can have reasonable suspicion that someone is in the country illegally. the move comes ahead of a supreme court ruling on the law. the governor wants police to be prepared if the court uphelds it. i saw mist out there. >> yeah! >> steve is coming back. le have your forecast. a north bay park is saved days before it was supposed to close. the reason behind the l.a. -- the last-minute deal. good morning 101 -- good morning. 101 is backed up. we will be right back. dude you don't understand, this is my dad's car. look at the car! my dad's gonna kill me dude... [ male announcer ] the security of a 2012 iihs top safety pick. the volkswagen passat. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease the 2012 passat for $209 a month. visit vwdealer.com today. it is 7:23. the plans billed as an upgrade to put an artificial turf and lighting was approved by two city commissions but now opponents have filed an appeal with the board of supervisors. the group, sf ocean edge, says the environment impact report is inadequate and did not consider alternatives. renovation work is scheduled to start next year. and a deal to save a popular sonoma state work should be finalized went next few weeks -- within the next few weeks. the park is on a hit list of parks scheduled to close in july. supervisors say closing the park would cost the county tourism and increase vand -- vandalism it will be open for at least a year. let's check in with sal. >> most of highway 4 traffic is slow. no problems on the benicia bridge or concord. let's go to the bay bridge toll plaza, trying to get into san francisco from oakland. it's gonna be a 15-minute wait. if you are trying to drive on the peninsula or 101, let's go to san jose first northbound 101 has been busy especially between san jose and sunnyvale, fremont traffic at livermore -- and livermore traffic very slow and across the bay over to -- over to highway 101, let's say you are trying to get to daly city or the olympic club. i would say 280 and 101 are not that bad. ler -- remember, the best way to get to the olympic club is to take b.a.r.t. to the kolma station and from there you can get a free shuttle. candlestick, free shuttles from candlestick to the open. let's go to steve. good morning. it will be cooler today for inland areas. even -- boy, there a lot of fog and drizzle. a couple of reports saying it looks like it rained out here. so that means the -- a big drop in the temperatures. some location, sfo fog. west-southwest out to fairfield. it's a good sea breeze for some. low to mid-50s. fog, drizzle. favoring the coast and bay. fog, sun, cooler. a few mid-80s. temperatures coming down about 5, 10 degrees. fog, sun, breezy on thursday. and then a tick turnaround on friday, it looks like it could get very warm very fast. berkeley residents, bashing the city over a proposal to crack down on homelessness. >> just give them the space to hang out. let people be themselves. >> the results of a late-night city council vote. why the mayor believes the orie conditions should -- ordinance should pass. we're inside. sierra lamar search center. we are await thing an announcement from her parents. and people who lost their home may not even know it. really? stealing your roommate's laundry money? i'm starving and i only have a few bucks. that's all you need. i just added four new things to my value menu. try my new chicken nuggets, jr jack, value fries and drink. and right now get them all together for only $3.99. it's called jack's value deal. hey, isn't there suptosed beheanoty?r gu i'll be right there. i'm busy. 7:39. new this morning, the parents of sierra lamar -- announcing -- sierra lamar, announcing the increase of a reward. claudine wong has more. >> reporter: good morning. this is burnett elementary school. it's become known as the sierra search center. the doors do not open for another half-hour for volunteers for a search scheduled to get underway. volunteers are already here to get ready for the search and the atownment that we're expecting at 8:-- announcement that we're expecting at 8:30 this morning. the reward now stands at $25,000. it started at $10,000. in april, sierra's parents announced it went up. now we're being told that steve and marlene lamar will announce another increase, that increase hoping to lead to the successful prosecution for the individual or individuals responsible for the disappearance of sierra lamar. there is one person in custody for her disappearance. antolin garcia-torres is in jail for her disappearance. her family continues to seek answers. again, this morning, there will be another search directly after the announcement by sierra's parents. you can see the signs and the t- shirts and everything, also, again, still holding out hope that she will be rushed safely to them. we'll be here when they make the announcement and we'll bring that to you. live here in morgan hill, claudine wong, channel 2 news. an overnight fire in oakland left a house badly damaged. the fire occurred on wadine place. it started around 2:45. firefighters had problems right away. even though they acted quickly. this home is now unlivable. >> smoke and flames coming from the front. it was under control approximately in ten minutes. at this point, the fire is under investigation. the firefighters tell us, no one was inside at the time. no one was -- this was a vacant house. the red cross will be calling on anyone who did live there. the san francisco fire chief is now questioning pg&e's response to a natural gas explosion that sparked a big fire. it happened yesterday afternoon on san bruno avenue in the portola neighborhood. a gas line ruptured while a welder was doing work under construction. the gas line -- >> pg&e was trying to determine the area where the shut off needed to be. it look longer than i like, yeah. >> i think they need to give an explanation as to why so long. >> reporter: the workers arrived on the scene in 0 minutes. they could not immediately stop the leak because of the flames. the construction worker suffered minor injuries. the bureau of investigation is looking into last september's explosion at membrane technology and research. the blast killed a scientist there. the bureau will consider whether to send the case to prosecutors. 7:33. the continuing controversy in berkeley over a plan that would ban sitting on sidewalks. ♪ >> now, opponents of the idea held this rally outside of berkeley hall. they called on people to stand up for the right to sit down. the measure would ban sitting on sidewalks in commercial areas from 7:00 in the morning