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Reporter Concord Police are searching for a hitandrun driver who they say hit a woman walking along the sidewalk late last night. And the crash is clear. But the backup remains on the bay bridge. How things are looking if you are headed into San Francisco and the other route into the city looking much better. Also an earlymorning car chase across the south bay. The ending that had officers running through a santa clara neighborhood jst hours ago. Mornings on 2 startings now. Good morning. Well come to mornings on 2. A live look at concord where an investigation is underway into a hit and run the. The victim is dead. The suspect is still on the loose. Its monday, march 17th. Im tori campbell. Welcomeback. Good to be back. Good to see you as well. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. The weather is good over the weekend. Much cooler. Drizzle reports. Richmond, marina, Mendocino County and lake county. Hardly anything here. But the breeze has carnged up somewhat. It will be a breezy much cooler day as temperatures slide in the 50s and 60s. Theres ure system. We do have cloud cover. This low cloud deck will be with us in the morning. There are a few reports of drizzle. 40s and 50s. But the breeze has been picking up. Especially eastern solano eastern county. Some areas calm. But 20 out of the west at fairfield. Thats a howling breeze compared to what we had the last couple of days. West or southwest and thats going to be the theme today. Its a cooler forecast. Overall, the system doesnt have much to it. Theres some rain on the north coast. For us its a little bit of drizzle. Fog, sun, breezy. Its a low overcast. 80s over the weekend. Will this cooling continue . Coming up, the last week of winter. Heres tara. If you are trying to get into San Francisco from the east bay, you will need the luck of the irish this st. Paddys day because the bay bridge is gridlocked because of an earlier accident in San Francisco. It cleared a half an hour ago. Check out the macarthur maze. This is something that you dont normally see. Its bumpertobumper traffic all the way up 80 through richmond. I would advise using the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Otherwise, you will be sitting in traffic for the next hour. Finally, 280 in san jose, traffic on the righthand side there, northbound toward highway 17, we have seen some stop and go. Its looking good. I do want to mention a high wind advisory in effect. We begin with developing news. Concord police are searching for the hitandrun driver who struck and killed a person walking along the sidewalk late last night. Good morning. Alex. Good morning. Investigators are hoping surveillance cameras in this area may offer a better look at the pickup truck that was involved in this deadly hitand run crash that happened last night. Ive was told by a sergeant that officers have pulled Surveillance Video from a nearby market. They are going over it now to see what it may show. Concord police say a truck in this case, jumped the curb and vammed into a woman as she was walking along the sidewalk. That truck drove off without stopping. Police are not sure how fast it was going or why the driver of the truck left the road. Officers talked with witnesses after the accident. Extremely critical so we can match up later on, our traffic investigators, lead investigator and hes extremely talented and experienced and he will be able to get as much evidence as we can. Reporter so far, police have not released much information about the victim other than to say she did live here in the concord area. They cant say where she was coming from or going to last night when she was struck and killed. This Police Investigation has wrapped up. Traffic is back open up on the street in both directions this morning. Police are still on the lookout for the pickup truck with front end damage involved in last nights hitandrun crash. Back to you. We are astill monitoring were still monitoring another developing story. A strong earthquake this morning gave los angeles quite a wakeup call. In the last 15 minutes, the usgs downgraded the earthquakes magnitude from 47 down to 4. 4. It hit before 6 30 in westwood right near the ucla campus. So far theres no injuries or damage reported. On twitter, people say things were falling off their shelves during the irk. Were still collecting information on the los angeles earthquake. Well bring you the updates as soon as we get them in. Police in campbell arrested a 24yearold transient on suspicion of stabbing a boy. The boy was rushed into surgery but he died. According to police, the 16 yearold was hanging with friends when they got into a fight with todd tharp. Janine de la vega will have a live report coming up at 7 30. A car chase through Santa Clara County ended with the detainment of four people. This all began at 4 00 a. M. A car didnt stop for sheriffs students near the county fairgrounds in san jose. After a brief chase, the people in that car ran into a neighborhood near monroe and scott boulevard. Santa clara Police Brought in a k9 unit to help find the suspects. We found out that all four of them have been detained. We dont know yet why they ran from police or what possible charges they could face. A house fire in san jose has led to the discovery of a marijuana grow operation. This was first reported about 10 30 last night on la near lane. Crews had la neer lane. Crews had it under control about two hours later. The house had an extensive wiring system for the grow operation. So pg e had to cut of power off to the whole block before the fire crews could secure the scene. The fire captain said there were three people in the house at the time. All of they are cooperating with the investigation. 7 08. A body that washed ashore at a beach in pacifica has now been identified as a missing woman from San Francisco. The body of 48yearold uma keshavan was found friday afternoon at the north end of plin da mar state linda mar state beach. Police say there was reported missing but theyve not released any other details surrounding her disapeerance disappearance. The man accused of biting off part of his infants nose is due in court. Authorities say Joshua Cooper bit his childs nose after the baby would not stop trying. One third of the nose was severed. He also suffered a Skull Fracture and brain hemorrhage but is expected to survive. Students at city college of San Francisco, they are gonna meet later today about the violent protests last thursday afternoon often the ocean avenue campus. Heres some of the video. Two people were arrested after several students stormed an Administration Building and clashed with the Campus Police. The protest was about a new tuition payment policy. Six of the Campus Police officers were hurt. The protesters were also demanding the resignation of a special trustee charged with keeping the troubled college from losing its accreditation. 7 09. Police in milpitas are looking for a hitandrun driver this morning. An 80yearold man was critically injured. It happened last night at the intersection of south park victoria and canton drive. The victim was rushed to the hospital where he is now fighting for his life. Witnesses told police the hit andrun driver was behind the wheel behind a gold and silver pickup. Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact milpitas police. The city of palo alto will celebrate the beginning of a street scape project. Its a 6. 9 million project expected to take at least until the end of the year to complete. It will include wider sidewalks, two new plazas. A fountain, new lights and landscaping and a reduction from four lanes down to two. 7 10. San franciscos board of supervisors is voting on a proposal involving the citys controversy ellis act. The ellis act allows a Property Owner to evict tenants to get out of the rental business. Under the existing law landlorded are required to pay tenants about 5,000 each with a cap of 15,000 per unite. But the new proposal would require landlords to pay the difference between the tenants rent prior to eviction and what could have been the market rate for that unit for two years. Supervisor david campos who introduced the proposal says evicted residents deserve more assistance in finding a new home. Tomorrow, the San Francisco board of supervisors is scheduled to vote whether to spend 4. 5 million facing eviction or struggling to make rent. About half of the money would go towards nonprofits providing social services and the other half to arts oceans. 7 11. Hard story to talk about, a man loses his wife and mother in the same deadly crash. I just know it was coming really quickly. When it plowed into the back of my car. What police think the driver of that car was doing that may have distracted him. A new report on the missing Malaysian Airline and the lengths the plane made have taken to avoid being detected by radar. This is the eastshore freeway impacted all the way through hercules. No doubt about it. A change in our weather. A lot of low clouds around. Drizzle. Well have the big dramatic difference sunday and today. It is 7 14. Continuing coverage now about missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The search area for the missing jet with 239 people aboard has expanded significantly. Thats after new satellite information suggests the plane may have flown for seven hours after its last reported contact. And theres a new focus on the pilots. Just this morning, Malaysia Airlines says it believes the copilot spoke the final good night to air Traffic Controllers and that was after the planes main communication was disabled. Both pilots homes have been searched. From all of the information ive been briefed on from, you know, high levels within homeland security, National Counterterrorism center, intelligence community, something was going on with the pilot. I think all leads towards the cockpit. A photo has emerged showing the pilot wearing a tshirt that states democracy is dead. And new unconfirmed reports this morning shown the plane may have been flying at an altitude of only 5,000 feet to avoid radar detection. Investors have been more than 4million into malls. One of them, the globe mall. Pacifica, Silicon Valley and milpitas and vietnam town have reach attracted 150 million in financing. Renovation of cupertino village has 16 million to work with. Investors are betting those malls will attract shoppers who moved here to the bay area from china, south korea, japan and other asian nations. A developer is taking the first steps now to build 24 new upscale condominiums near downtown walnut creek. These condos will be between 1500 and 2500 square feet and the development will include rauts and underground parking and it will add space to alma park. The city has received that proposal but has not started the approval process. 7 17. Joes cable car restaurant in San Francisco may have flipped its last burger. But it will be opening its doors once more for customers to pick up souvenirs. After 50 years of service yesterday was the restaurants last day of operation. Today owner joe will allow long time customers to stop by and grab decorations off the mall. I mean, look at this, they love me. I love them. Love here for 50 years. Its not easy to let go. Joe says his health is forcing him to retire. Thousands of people have made their way to the Mission District diner. We wish him well. In case you didnt know, today is st. Patricks day. Bay area police will be watching for drunk drivings. According to reports, eight out of ten drivers involved in deadly crashes on st. Patricks day, tested at twice the legal limit. In an effort to keep drunk drivers off bay area roads, burg Injury Lawyers is offering free cap rides through luxor. Aaa is offering tipsytow service. We want to check in with tara. I would vrdz taking the richmond san ralph i would virginia taking the Richmond San Rafael this morning. There there is an accident on 80 westbound. The backup, this is the eastshore freeway extends from the toll plaza to the macarthur maze and up the eastshore freeway to hercules. We want to mention a new crash at the albany exit on 80 westbound. A make motorcycle verses a car. 101 in san jose, we have some congestion in the northbound direction on the righthand side of your screen there as you make your way toward the airport. It is 7 19. Lets check in with steve. Thank you. Happy st. Patricks day. Thank you. Thank you. Some low clouds around. Definitely a break in the clouds for a few. But its a cooler day already. Its going to be temperatures. Temperatures coming down 10 degrees. Theres been a lot of reports of drizzle. There is a little bit there. Some low clouds. Breezy, some clouds. It will clear out. Mostly sunny. Mostly sunny, breezy. Much cooler later this afternoon. A lot of 60s. The system not a cold front. Its a cool front. Its setting the stage for more of a westerly breeze. Some of that low cloud deck. Well hold onto forecast through the breeze. A lot of reports, very windy. Brentwood, antioch, also oakley. Some reports as well to the north. 50s, 60s for San Francisco. Coming down. Some drizzle, local drizzle. 52. You can see the cloud deck stretching in the north bay to the south bay. Its there. Beneath that, theres drizzle. 40s for some. 46 for santa rosa. 50s for other. Cooler air is coming into the north bay. You get a west of 20 at travis. Thats a sure sign of a cooldown. Santa rosa, napa, also concord, even sfo. West at 8. Theres a outer ones. Overall, well have a lot of sunshine. The Morning Hours dealing with 40s. 48 in ukiah. Willits up into ukiah, some rain reports. Low clouds, sun, breezy to windy. There are wind advisories to the valley. 60s and 70s with a few upper 50s. I mean, temperatures really coming down after those 80s from over the weekend. Not today. Some of these will be soft 70s. 68, san jose. Santa clara, sunnyvale, 66 woodside. 58 pacifica. Daly city, 59. Temperatures will drop in the 30s. We might get more of a north wind. A warmup in the temperatures. Spring starts 9 57 p. M. On thursday. It will be very quiet going forward. All right, steve. 7 22. Its the countrys oldest and largest st. Paddys day parade. The powerful people and companies coy boughting it. And the boycotting it. And the controversial issue found at it all. And a bible response found in the rubble of that new york city Apartment Building explosion. We enjoyed summertike temperatures this weekend, Winter Weather is still hitting the east coast. Federal offices in washington, d. C. Are closed today. Parts of West Virginia could see up to 10 inches of snow and with all of that heavy snow and ice drivers are being advised to stay off the roads if possible. There are also flight delays at several airports, including atlanta, the d. C. Area sand philadelphia. Many people are really hoping this is the last big winter storm. I know they do. 7 25. Well, march madness now underway. The ncaa tournament field, its been set. [ cheers ] oh, yeah. They are happy. The keaurdz, number 10 seed. They cardinals, number 10 seed. This is stanfords first time in the tournament since 2008. Now, three bay area teams are in the National Invitational tournament. The number 2 seed, cal bears will host the wolverines wednesday night. Number 4 seat, usf is in the same region as cal. St. Marys is also a number 4 seed. The gayle ga the gales host utah. The churchs pastor was overcome with emotion when he was presented with this bible, he had chest pains and had to be taken to the hospital. There is a recall of hundreds of thousands of older vehicles. This one is because of a fuel leak that could cause fires. A homeless man is arrested on suspicion of killing a 16 yearold boy. What police say led up to the confrontation. We still have some residual effects from an earlier accident in San Francisco. Well tell you where the major impact is. Right here is one of them. Its the bay bridge toll plaza. There will be a major impact on our temperatures. A cold front coming through. Well see how that impacts the temperatures today and also the rest of the week. They lived. They lived. They lived. dad we lived. Thanks to our subaru. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. [ ] these are pictures of the scene after a teen was found dead at the scene. Police believe a homeless man was responsible. Well have an update on the investigation and what our reporter has learned about the crime. Steve . It will be cooler, breezy, brandon over there and said man, feel the windchill here. Its definitely cooler. The wind is cranked up. Our system, there is not a lot to it. Drizzle, fog, breezy. It will be sunny later today. Temperatures coming down a good 10, 15 degrees. Some of that low cloud deck over us. 46 at Sonoma County airport. The wind has been picking up for some, especially out towards fairfield, brentwood out towards oakley and antioch. A lot of the drizzle reports in San Francisco. Some light rain reports up in pled county, lake county. Overall, once this clears out, the low clouds, sun, cooler today, that drizzle should be about done. San mateo, south San Francisco, parts of the peninsula left over. 50s on the temperatures. Upper 60s and low 70s. This is it. This is the last week of winter. Well see if this cooling continues and if theres any rain in the forecast. Heres tara. We still have backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. The good news, the traffic has pickedded up on the span. It wont take you long once you get past the toll. The macarthur maze complete lit gridlocked. The traffic continues up the eastshore freeway through hercules. This is the Richmond San Rafael bridge toll plaza. Were experiencing delays here as well because i guess folks wanted to share the love starting to take this bridge instead and so were seeing some traffic delays here. Finally at the san mateo bridge, we are seeing a little bit of a slowdown as you head westbound on into foster city. Not too bad. But there is still a high wind advisory in effect for this span. Back to the desk. Thank you. New this morning, a teenager is dead in the south bay and the Police Believe a homeless man is responsible. The police have been investigating this overnight and its led them to a popular park in campbell. Thats where janine de la vega is to tell us what you are finding out. Good morning, janine. Reporter good morning. The 16yearold boy who was killed is from san jose. Were told he was hanging out here at john d. Morgan park in campbell near the baseball field when the violence broke out. Now, heres a photograph of 24 yearold todd tharp. Campbell police say hes a transient. They have arrested him for the teens murder. They say at 8 30 last night, the teen was with his friends near the bleachers of the baseball field. They got into an argument with tharp and it turned physical. Tharp was beat up. The teen was stabbed. Its ununclear who injured who first. The boy is from san jose. Police have been collecting evidence and conducting interviews. Too find out more about how this came about, im joined by captain Dave Carmichael with campbell police. Where are you at with this investigation . Do we know if the group of teens knew this man . We dont know if they knew each other ahead of time. Were still looking into that possibility and havent ruled that out. Reporter where are you at in the investigation . Our time Crime Scene Team has been out here and were still following up and conducting interviews. Reporter is this one a challenging case as far as, you know, trying to figure out what this argument was about or if if all of the parties are telling the same sawyer . All homicides are challenging. We look into them from all aspects. At this point, we are confident that weve arrested the suspect for this case. Okay. Reporter shocking. I dont know if much crime happens in this park. Its pretty familyfriendly. It is familyfriendly. Its a large park. Its closed at night. People do come in here after the park after hours but its shocking we have a crime. Reporter thank you so much captain mar michael with campbell police. We know last year in campbell, there were two ms hads but this is the two homicides but this is the first one for the year for the city. Janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. A 2. 7 aftershock was just felt in los angeles. That knolls the 4. 2 that hit before 6 30 this morning. It hit in westwood, near the ucla campus. So far no injuries or damage reported. On twitter, people say things were falling off their shelves. Were following the situation and will bring you any updates as we get them. A deadly crash kills two women in santa rosa. One of them a popular Elementary School music teacher. Ktvu channel 2 reporter brian flores is at the scene of the crash with reaction on the crash. Reporter good morning. They were on their wray to celebrate sues birth birthday here they were on their way to celebrate sues birthday here. The driver slammed into their car and killed two of the four people inside. Reporter this was sue conducting her students in chorus last month. She was a popular and loved teacher. She was the only music teacher in the district going from school to school, teaching thousands of kids throughout the years. Sue and her motherinlaw were in the back seat of a toyota camry driven by sues husband, jay. All four were headed to a restaurant to celebrate sues 53rd birthday, which was four days earlier. They were at a stoplight. Eastbound highway 12 when all of a sudden, the driver of a pickup truck slammed into their car at an estimated 16 miles an hour according to investigators. Sue and her motherinlaw were injured. I saw him coming after i had stopped my vehicle. I was at a stop and i looked up at the rear i have, rear view, i could see limb barreling him barreling up. He was looking down at his phone. Whether he was texting, thats still being vethed. Reporter the chp says the driveert of the pickup may have been on his cell phone moments before the crash. Investigators say they found evidence in his car there was possible which using possibly using marijuana. Back out here live, we also spoke to the School District about this. They are very heartbroken about what happened. They plan on keeping the Music Program going this year. Were live here in santa rosa, brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. 7 37. A woman in her 60s recovering this morning after being hit by a car last night in San Francisco. Police were called to 39th about 9 45. Police say that woman was in the cross walk when she was hit but may have been intoxicated. The driver of the car did stay at the scene as was cited for driving without a license and also driving with her lights off. Meantime, a man in his 60s is fighting for his life after being hit by a tour bus in San Francisco. This happened yesterday morning at 7th and mission streets. Investigators say a supersight seeing bus was turning when it hit the man in the crosswalk. His legs were badly injured. I didnt see this happen. I just, you know its chilling. Theres still times when people dont see you or they are not looking. Ive also had some really close calls. Police are still trying to figure out what still caused the crash. They are using cameras to collect their clues. A Castro Valley man is now the prime suspect in the deadly shooting of his wife. An arrest warrant was issued late saturday night for 46year old feng mi. Police say the daughter found her mothers body. Police say theres been no sign of mi and hes made no attempt to Contact Police or family. Weve been searching trying to find him. Hes not attempted to locate us or his children. Police believe hes driving a silver toyota 2013 toyota 4 with paper plates. They say he had two registered firearms but a search of the home only turned up one. Police say he should be considered armed and dangerous. Police are getting calls but no solid leads in the kidnapping of four children that prompted a statewide amber alert. There are two boys ages 5 and 7 and twin 1yearold girls. Police believe they were taken by their parents. The grandparents have legal custody because the father is accused of being physically abusive. 20 minutes before 8 00. Friends and family of missing teen, sierra lamar, came together to mark the second anniversary of her disappearance. I will remember you the emotional gathering took place at Washington High School where sierra would have been a senior this year. Loved ones found comfort in each other and welcomed a new bench built in sierras honor. The bench is built around the campus cheerleading tree where she spent much of her time. Im hoping to god shes still alive. I just hope this will bring more publicity here to find her. Sierras classmates keep her memory alive. The suspect, Antolin Garcia torres, meanwhile, pleaded not guilty last month to charges of her kidnapping and murder. Hes also been charged with three attempts of carjacking and kidnapping for incidents back in 2009. Thats when he is accused of assaulting three women outside of south bay supermarkets. Hes expected back in court on april 16th. Fiat recalling 18,000 of his new 500 l cars because of a transmission program. There have been more than a hundred routes of drivers who couldnt shift out of park. Were told it could be fixed by updating the software. Fiat will start to notify owners of affected cars next month. Honda recalling almost 900,000 of its minivans with a potential fuel leak that could cause a fire risk. The cover for the fuel pump strainerrer on the odyssey vans can deteriorate and crack which could allow fuel to leak out. Honda says it will notify owners of the 2005 through 2010 odysseys that may have a problem. And earlymorning car chase across the south bay. Well tell you how it ended hours ago. And the reason shipping packages will cost a little more next month. We do have an accident up in the napa area that we want to tell you about. First, this is a live look at the san mateo bridge where you can see that traffic is beginning to kind of slow town here. Well explain why next. A couple of reports of drizzle this morning. 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See your authorized dealer for exceptional offers through mercedesbenz financial services. Welcome back. 7 45. Well, today is the day for the big st. Paddys say celebration in new york. But this year, there are people and Companies Boycotting this big parade. Pam cook is in the newsroom now with the hot button issue thats right at the heart of all of this. Yes. This is the country hes oldest and largest parade ba people are staying away because gay groups are not allowed to march openly. Now, new yorks mayor and the council say they will not take part in the parade in new york and now big beermakers guinness, heineken and sam adams have publicly pulled their support of the big parade. Thats because organizations are reducing to allow gay and lesbian groups march openly. Religious leaders are angry. The new movement here on the part of the left trying to solve the gay agenda down our throats with the help with people from the mayor on sunday, bostons mayor boycotted his citys annual parade even though hes the first irishamerican mayor in 20 years. Gay veterans were not allowed to march in that parade with their own manner. The debate in new york dates back to the 1990s when a group of irish gay advocates fought for inclusion. The case made it switch to the supreme court. Reporting live in the newsroom, pam cook, ktvu channel 2 news. Happening right now, president obama delivering a statement on the situation in ukraine. Lets listen in. The executive order i signed two weeks ago, were imposing sanctions on specific individuals responsible for undermining the sovereignty, territorial intergrity and  government of ukraine. Second, i have signed a new executive order that expands the scope of our sanctions. As an initial step, im authorizing sanctions on russian officials and its operating in the arms sector in russia and individuals who provide Material Support to senior officials of the russian government. And if russia continues to interfere in ukraine, we stand ready to impose further sanctions. Third, were continuing our sanctions. Tonight, Vice President biden departs for europe where he will meet with the leaders of our nato allies. I will be traveling to europe next week. Our message will be clear. As nato allies we will uphold this commitment. Fourth, well continue to make clear to russia that further provocations will achieve economy. The International Community will continue to stand together. And continued intervention with only deepen the isolation. Going forward, we can calibrate our response based on whether russia chooses to escleaut or to deescalate the situation escalate or to deescalate the situation the i believe theres still a path to resolve this situation in a way that addresses the interests of russia and ukraine. That includes russia pulling its forces in crimea back to the bases, sorting the deployment of additional monitors in ukraine. And engaging in dialogue with the Ukrainian Government which has indicated its government. But throughout this process, were gonna stand firm in our unwavering support. As i told the Prime Minister, the United States stands with the people of ukraine and their right to determine whether own destiny. Were gonna keep working with congress and our International Partners to offer ukraine the support that it needs to improve the lives of the ukrainian people. As we go forward, well continue to lookant the ways we can help our ukrainian friends achieve their rights, prosperity and dignity that they deserve. Thank you very much. Youve been listening live to president obama give a rather brief statement there about the situation in crimea. A referendum there, 97 of voters supported breaking off with ukraine and joining russia. The president announced with sanctions there. They are working with european allies and they will let the russians know that any further actions could have severe consequences. And joe biden is leaving tonight to go there. And president obama will be heading in that area as well. A lot going on. Yes. A lot going on in our commute. Tara, the bay bridge area, a mess. Definitely, folks are taking the Richmond Bridge and the san mateo bridges in order to compensate. This is a look at the bridge where you can see raindrops on the lenses getting backed up westbound. We also want to mention thatter is a garbage truck on fire, 92 eastbound near the hills dale mall. You can see these delays, residual effects from the earlier accident in San Francisco and the Richmond Bridge where you can see theres also backup as you try to make your way across into san rafael. Lets head over to steve. We have a little bit of drizzle around. I know san mateo, south San Francisco, pacifica. Weve had a little bit. Marina district in San Francisco. They might be clear. Some of these are about an hour old. Hard pressed to find anything. Santa clara says clear and 46. It looks like this system is going through. Its going to set the stage for a much cooler day. A good 10, 15 degrees, maybe 20. Morning fog, drizzle or low clouds. Its a cooler and breezy forecast. Very windy out toward, the valley. You can see some of that low cloud deck there. 40s, 50s. You can see the cold air to the north. Mendocinolake county and its heading down to way. Its going to be a cooler day for everybody. The breeze cranked up. Yesterday afternoon you could kind of feel it. Sure enough this system has arrived. Fairfield, 20, gusts to 25. More of a west breeze in place. Its not that strong but the impact will be the temperatures coming down. So fog, low clouds, sun. It will be breezy to windy. Probably tonight into tomorrow, as that system drops. We kind 60s, 70s. Temperatures out of 80s. Down 10 for some. But even a bigger drop towards the santa clara valley. Gilroy was 86 degrees. San jose and santa clara at 68. 50s, 60s on the coast. A breezy cooler day. About the same on tuesday, the lows in wind protected areas will fall off the table. There will be 30s and spring begins at 9 57 p. M. On thursday. After that, things are quiet going into the weekend. All right. A 50yearold Mission District diner closing its doors. The sentimental souvenirs the owner is offering to longtime customers. Changes for the scrabble board. The online contest happening now and how you can help decide what could be added to the scrabble dictionary. 7 54. The city of San Francisco is looking for new ways to wash down sidewalks and buildings during the drought. The San Francisco examiner says every major California City uses at least some Drinking Water to clean streets. Right now the city is looking for other sources of water besides whats delivered from the Tuolumne River and help help cli reservoir. For hetch hetchy reservoir. During the drought you are being encouraged to look for leaks in your home as part of a national fix a leak week, the San Francisco Public Utilities commission plans to meet with people in the community to help them identify possible leaks in their homes. Its estimated that one in five homes has an ongoing leak. The commission will also tell people about all right devices that can about water devices that can help save gallons of water. Happening today, the 27th annual Game Developers conference is kicking off at San Franciscos moscone center. This is the worlds biggest and longestrunning professionals only Game Industry event. More than 23,000 programmers designers and other Game Development professionals will be there. This year the focus is on social issues. The organizers want to create better games that break down barriers for things like racism and homophobia. Get ready to send more for packages through ups. They ran to raise up to 4 . Fedex and the u. S. Postal service will raise rates before the end of the year, they say. Big changes are coming to the scrabble dictionary and you could have a say in which words make it into the book. The change would mark the first in nine years. Some words being corrected include selfie and hashtag. You can nominate a word on the hasbro game night football page on april 16th. 16 will be chosen for a fan vote. Vote. I love scrabble. 7 57. Still ahead, san jose firefighters they discover a marijuana grow operation last night while responding to a house fire. What they found in that house that may have started the fire. Concord police continuing to search for the driver of the pickup truck who hit and killed a woman as she was walking along the sidewalk. Well tell you the clues investigators have to go on here. 101 in San Francisco, looking pretty good at this hour, compared to earlier this morning when we had a horrible accident that caused backup on the bay bridge. Well tell you where the traffic hot spots are next. Light rain or sunny. Weve had a little bit of both. Well tell you how much cooler and how long it will last. Well, you when you were a lot younger. What are you doing here . Reminding you how things used to be. How youd have a little debbie whenever you finished cleaning your room. Or finished a book report. Or finished a garden. Youve earned it. You can have one when youve finished cleaning out the garage. Your love for little debbie is something you never outgrow. You should get him to do the attic too. Is this flu shot necessary . It keeps you healthy during flu season. But does it hurt . Nah. Plus you get a really sweet bandaid anything else i should know . Heres a thought, try scoring more points on the other team. Okay. Even a warrior can get sick. Kaiser permanente reminds you to get your flu shot this season. Good morning. About 8 00. Welcome back to mornings on 2. These are live pictures. Were at willow pass road in concord. Traffic moving slowly now. But that certainly was not the case last night. There is an investigation into a deadly hitandrun crash. It closed this road for six hours. The driver of the car drove onto a sidewalk, hit a woman and took off. Alex savidge has been on this all morning. He will tell us the clues police are using to help catch the person responsible. Its monday morning, march 17th. Im dave clark. Im tori campbell. We were spoiled by the 80s. No kidding. Already sun for some. Theres been some reports of drizzle, mist. It looks like some of that is winding down. Temperatures coming down a good, 10, 15 degrees. Still some low clouds around. Mark out in Pleasant Hill said sunny and calm. Not much going on. Some areas pick up a good breeze. 40s on the temperatures to 50s. Cooler air to the north. Had a few reports of light rain up to Mendocino County. Drizzle around San Francisco. But not much left. Overall, low clouds. But mainly sunny and breezy. Cooler. That drizzle looks to be done. But generally more in the 60s. Upper 60s. Weve talked about it looks like coming up in our next segment, well talk about how long this will continue and heres tara. A tree and a power pole are down blocking the roadway in both directions here. But the big story has been the bay bridge. Huge backup at the toll plaza due to an earlier accident in San Francisco. The commute never quite recovered. Definite live give yourself some extra time. This backup extends all the way past the macarthur maze through hercules, we can take our next picture here. The Richmond San Rafael bridge, you can see we have a congestion at the toll plaza there. Its even worse at the comeaut bridge. Got san mateo bridge. Got a lot of rain on the lens. We with have had slowdowns into foster city. Theres mud on the roadway from construction and thats causing some slippery conditions. Caltrans is trying to mop that up. Back to the desk. We begin this hour with developing news. Concord police are searching for the hitandrun driver who struck and killed a person walking along a sidewalk late last night. Alex savidge is live with the evidence investors have to go on so far. Reporter good morning. Investigators are hoping that surveillance cameras will offer clues as to what kind of pickup thuk this was involved in the dead truck that was involved in this deadly accident. The collision was about 11 40 last night on willow pass road near fifth street. Concord police say a pickup truck jumped the curb and slammed into a woman as she was walking along the sidewalk. The truck drove off without stopping. Police are not sure how fast that truck was going or why the driver veered off the road. Officers last night did talk with witnesses but those witnesses were only able to give a vague description of a pickup truck leaving the scene here. There were, however, pieces of that truck found here at the crash scene. Those likely will be key to finding the driver. Extremely crit cal. Extremely critical. Our traffic investigators, the lead investigator on this, hes extremely talented and experienced and will be able to get as much evidence as we can. Reporter police have not released much information about the victim other than to say she lived here in the concord area. Police have wrapped up the investigation here on willow pass road on fifth street where the accident happened. They are continuing to search for the driver of that pickup truck. They dont have a description on what type of truck that was. But they say it will have damage to the front end. Were live in concord. Alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. 8 04. Police in milpitas are also looking for a hitandrun driver this morning an 80year old man was critically injured. It happened last night at south park victoria and canton drive. The victim was rushed to the hospital where hes fighting for his life. Witnesses told police the driver was behind the wheel of a gold Chevy Silverado pickup. Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact milpitas police. New this morning, people in los angeles still talking about a strong earlymorning earthquake. This one was centered near westwood near the ucl ha. Campus. So far no injuries or damages reported. On twitter, Officials Say there are no word of water main breaks or Power Outages after that earthquake. About 30 minutes ago, there was a 2. 7 aftershock. A car chase has ended with the detainment of four people. It all started around 4 00 a. M. A car failed to stop for Sheriff Deputies fear the pair fairgrounds. A kind unit was brought k9 unit was brought in to help detain the suspects. A house fire in san jose has red to the discovery of a marijuana grow operation. This was first reported after 10 30 on la near lane. Firefighters had to it under control about two hours later. About 70 pot months were found. He says the house had an extensive wiring system in place for the marijuana grow operation. So pg e had to cut the power to the entire block before fire crews could secure that scene. The captain says there were three people in the house at the time. All are cooperating with the investigation. 8 0 of. The body that washed ashore at a beach in pacifica has been identified as a missing woman from San Francisco. The body of 48yearold uma keshavan was found friday afternoon at the north end of linda mar state beach. Police say she was recently reported missing but they have not released any other details surrounding her disappearance. Pacifica police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. Students at city college of San Francisco will meet later today about the violent protest last thursday afternoon on the ocean avenue campus. Take a look at the video. Two people were arrested after several students stormed the Administration Building and crashed over a protest with new tuition payment policy. Six of the Campus Police officers were injured. The protesters were also demanding the resignation of a special trustee charged with keeping that troubled college from losing the accreditation. Tonight, the Palo Alto City Council is expected to sign off on a list of new equipment for the police department. That includes 75 new tasers. Other items on the list are evidence storage lockers, gms trackers and new communication systems. The city is getting more than 100,000 as part of a state program that allocates funds to public state departments. Speaking of palo alto, later today, the city of palo alto will celebrate the beginning of a Streetscape Project on california avenue. It will be at 4 00 on california avenue. The 6. 9 million project is expected to take at least until the end of the year and will include wider sidewalks, two new plazas. A new fountain near the caltrain station and reducing the lanes from four to two. 8 08. San franciscos board of supervisors is voting on a proposal involving the citys controversial ellis act. The ellis act allows the Property Owner to evict tenants to get out of the rental business. Under the existing law, landlords are required to pay tenants about 5,000 each with a cap of 15,000 per unit. The new proposal would require land lords to pay the difference between the tenants rent prior to eviction and what would have been the market rate for that unit for two years. David campos who introduced the proposal said evicted residents deserve more assistance in finding a new home. And San Francisco is increasing the financial help for firsttime home buyers. The city will loan as much as 200,000 in down payment money for buyers. City leaders say thats enough to keep people in the city. The loan does not have to be repaid until the owners refinance or sell the property. The money will go back into the program to help other first time home buyers. Coming up, we will tell you about a vote thats coming tomorrow involving evictions. Stay tuned. Its concerning San Francisco. Well have that story in just a couple of minutes. Muni may offer low fares but compared to other services it travels at a slower average speed and has higher operating costs. Last thursday, a report was released. Muni operates 3 to 14 times the total number of vehicles as its other cities. Other cities include, san jose, seattle, houston and dallas you know this is st. Patricks day. Bay area police will be watching for drunk drivers. According to national reports, eight out of ten deaths reported on this day, tested at twice the legal limit. Dui arrests jumped 28 between 2012 and 2013. In an effort to keep drunk drivers off bay area roads. Burg Injury Lawyers is offering free cab rides through luxor and also tonight, aaa is offering its oneway tipsy tow service. 8 10. A tragic accident in santa rosa. I was at a stop and i looked up at the rear you have. I could see him rear view. I could see him barreling up on me. The Reason Police say the driver of a pickup truck did not slow down before driving right into the back of a car. Theres new information on the missing malaysian plane. Highway 237 in milpitas, getting backed up at this hour. We have a car crash out at American Canyon to tell you about. Still witter on the calendar. It felt still winter on the calendar. It felt like spring over the weekend. Continuing coverage now of the missing malaysia jet. U. S. Lawmakers are now questioning the investigation tactics as authorities focus on the pilots and passengers with aviation expertise. Kyla campbell is live in washington, d. C. With the developing details. Kyla . Reporter ma the plane the malaysian flight reports saying it flew 5,000 feet to stay off radar has not been confirmed. Flight 370 disappeared ten days ago with 239 people including three americans on board. Malaysian officials defended their delayed release of some details saying they want all information confirmed first. Airline Officials Say it was the copilot who spoke the final words to air traffic control, all right, good night. Both pilots homes have been searched. And some lawmakers say those two should have been the focus from the start. The fbi could have been called in, interpol, my understanding is that malaysia is not cooperating at all. They are reluxant to reluctant to say out what they have on the table. Reporter live in washington, kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. 8 15. Today, palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will meet with president obama to talk about whats happening with the middle east peace process. There is theres just a couple of weeks left before a deadline expires to complete a framework for peace talks. 8 16. Fire investigators in Mountain View were searching for the cause of a large house fire. Flames were first spotted at 2 30 yesterday morning on fortham way. It took crews about an hour to get the fire under control and keep it from spreading to nearby holes. One man saw the flames, called 911 and then began knocking on neighbors doors to warn them. The flames are small in the beginning and really picked up the pace after five minutes. Huge fire. Huge fire. Firefighters say the fire appears to have started in a bedroom and part of the roof caved in. They say no one was home at the time. 8 16. Well, joes cable car restaurant in San Francisco may have cooked its last burger but it may open its burger one more time for customers to come in and pick up suva nears sue va is souvenirs. Today, the owner will let long time customers come in and grab decorations from off the wall today. Look at it. Beautiful. They love me. I love them. Love up here for 50 years. Its not easy to let go. Love affair of 50 years. He says his health is well, his health is failing. Thats why hes retiring. Since the hate nounsment six weeks ago, he says thousands of people have come out to the district, the Mission District diner to spend their some time with joe. Thats nice. We wish him well. We do. 8 17. Lets check in with tara. Its been a busy morning and now there is an accident at American Canyon. We have a car seen swerving and going down the embankment. Emergency crews are trying to save the driver. We have delays at the toll plaza. Right now, you can see that things are starting to let up at the macarthur maze. The backup does extend all the way up the eastshore freeway through hercules. So definitely give yourself extra time. Things are looking brighter. Northbound traffic there on the right hab side of your right hand side of your screen, not looking too good. Our wind advisory for the bridge has been canceled. 280. You can see traffic on the bottom of your screen, definitely give yourself some extra time. Its 8 18. Lets head to steve. Happy st. Patricks day. Thank you. At a lot of low clouds in place for some. The Pleasant Hill, sun here. Some clear something taking place to the north. Kind of like a little cloud deck over parts of the day. San mateo coast. I know on the peninsula as well. Not a bad system in terms of a much cooler forecast. Not much rain. Theres been some drizzle. Its been windy for some. And that drizzle and that low cloud deck will clear out. You can see some of the loud cloak hanging around. 40s and 50s. It will be a blustery day for many. High el vitions. Its a high elevations. Its a westerly breeze. 20, 25 out towards fairfield. We we can feel yesterday afternoon that system coming in. Sure enough cranked up the breeze and gave a few reports of bryzle drizzle. 42 in tahoe. 47 ukiah. We have a little bit of rain early. Around 5 00, 6 00. Our system is frying out of here. Low clouds. It will be sunny. Some low clouds will hold out for the morning hour. Temperatures definitely coming down from some warm weekend temperatures. A lot more 60s or very, very low 70s. Alameda, 64. Brentwood. Had reports of breeze. 50s, 60s on the coast. Much of the peninsula. Mid to upper 60s, including san mateo at 66 which had some drizzle earlier. Sunny and breezy. We say hello to spring this week. 8 20. A huge auto recall. Honda will start notifying car owners. The reason honda is warning about a possible fire risk. Days away from the start of spring, another winter storm hitting the east coast. The areas most affected and the major shut down for the fifth time this year. We made our owl to tell you why. First, chex makes lots of gluten free flavors. Which is a huge thing for us. And theres seven to choose from. Like cinnamon, honey nut, and chocolate. I tell them you guys are gonna turn into chocolate chex i like cinnamon, greg is a honey nut nut. When you find something this good, you want to spread the word. [ all ] were the pearsons, and we love chex you want to spread the word. [ ] 8 23. Yikes, still winter in parts of the east coast. For of the fifth time in the past couple of months, federal offices in washington, d. C. Closed because of this parts of West Virginia could get up to 10 inches of snow. Drivers back east are being warned about heavy snow and frost. They are being advised to stay off the road if they can. People back there are hoping, its the last big winter storm. Down the lane. Kicks it back out. Thompson for the lead. The warriors were ridiculous, tori. Curry, thompson led the warriors back. They won last night beating portland. 113112. One point they combined for 64 points. 51 of those points came in the second half. Boy, they make it exciting. And even more exciting march maddness is underway. The ncaa tournament field has been set. [ cheers ] a nice cheer there. The cardinal is the number 10 seed in the south region. They will open against 7th seeded new mex coat on friday in next co on friday. Tipoff is at 10 po 30. This is stanfords first time in the tournament since 2008. Three times are in the tournament. Cal bears will host utah valley. Number 4 seed usf and then st. Mary as well, they are number 4 seed. They host the gales tomorrow night. Indianapolis colts ago owner facing four felony counts after police found several prescription drugs in his car. Police say the man was pulled over in the indianapolis suburb of carmel. They say he was driving slowly and stopped in the road and failed to signal before turning. He was arrested after failing a field sobriety test. Hes being held on charges of driving while intoxicated. His bail was set at 22,000. Police say he should be able to post bond and be released sometime this afternoon. Several new asianthemed malls are popping up in the south bay and east bay. The biggest one, the globe mall in fremont. Thats according to the oakland tribune. The others include, pacific malls, Silicon Valley in milpitas and vietnam town in san jose as well as cupertino village in cupertino. Thats still under renovation. Investors are hoping people who moved here to the bay area from the far east will be attracted to these smalls and stores and restaurants that look alike that look a lot like their former homes. A developer warrants to build 24 luxury condominiums in downtown walnut creek. They would be in threestory buildings near downtown walnut creek on california and botello. It would be one, two and three bedroom homes. The project will include underground parking and restaurants in that neighborhood. The city has the proposal but says it may take months for a decision to come on whether or not to approve it. Digging deep for answers on the uc berkeley campus. The research and what it has to to with keeping people safe. Were live in campbell, where a homeless man is under arrest for stabbing a teenaged boy to death in a popular park. Well tell you new information that we learned about the suspect from police. Were seeing a lot of backup at the toll plaza. This one is the Richmond San Rafael. Well have more traffic straight ahead. Sun 0 out for some. But the cooler temperatures are going to be the big story today. [ kelly ] my days start early. And so do mouth germs. But now i have the protection of colgate total® mouthwash. It works just as hard and just as long as i do. [ man ] rolling in 5 [ male announcer ] colgate total® mouthwash. It kills germs on contact and has a germkilling shield that keeps working for 12 hours. It doesnt quit even after eating and drinking. Hi [ male announcer ] colgate total® mouthwash. 12 hour Germ Protection even after eating and drinking. I just ah woke up today and i said i need something sportier. Annnd done. Ok maxwell, just need to ah contact your Insurance Company with the vin number. Oh, i just did it. With my geico app. Vin is up to the loaded. Ok well then jerry here will take you through all of the features then. Why dont weeeeeeeeeeee go out to the car. Ok, ill just be outside. Ok, yeah. His dad is my boss. Yeah. Vin scanning to add a car. Just a tap away on the geico app. This is mornings on 2. Were live right now. Wanted to show you were in john d. Morgan park in campbell. Police say a 16yearold boy was stabbed to death there last night. A 24yearold homeless man is accused of the killing. Ktvus janine de la vega is out there now. Shes talking to the police and will be here to tell you what police say led up to the violence. Its monday morning, march 17th. Im dave clark. Lets talk about your weather and traffic. Boy, is there a lot to tell you. Much, much cooler, there. System still giving us some low cloud deck. Is teams seems to you can see some of the low cloud deck has produced drizzle. 40s and 50s on the temperatures. Very cool air coming into the north. Tonight will be very cold into tomorrow morning. Winter wont give up breezy for some. Oakland, west at 15, west at fairfield. West, santa rosa. That tells what you you need to know. Temperatures will come down dramatically. Once we get rid of the low clouds. It will be sunny. Drier air is coming in behind that. Thmps will be more in the low 60s and mid60s coast and bay. Upper 60s inland. Nothing compared to what we had over the weekend. Thats for sure. Low clouds. Fog, whatever you want. 50s, 60s to very low 70s. Heres tara. Well, the good news, the situation at the bay bridge, the horrible gridlock weve been experiencing. Finally easing up a little bit. We do have a lot of hot spots. Lets take a look at our maps. We can show you that the situation from the hercules, pinole area along the eastshore freeway, you can see how red it is. 680 southbound from concord to danville slow and then your drive out to the call dill cut tunnel westbound as well as 880 northbound from the hayward area to oakland. San mateo bridge, we have backup there. You can see its very slow going on the righthand side of your screen. A lot of folks decided not to take the bay bridge and instead opted for the san mateo. So definitely give yourself some extra time if you need to get across the bay at all. 237 milpitas. Traffic on the upper portion of your screen, westbound as you make the drive towards sunnyvale. Its experiencing some delays. Give yourself some exthat extra time. Back to the desk. A teenager is dead in the south bay and police think a homeless man is responsible. Police have been investigating this overnight and it has led them to a popular park in campbell. Thats where janine de la vega is now. You have new information youve learned from the police. Reporter police say the suspect is a transient to their knowledge. He has no prior criminal history. I asked the captain if the suspect knew that the victim had died of his injuries. He say they did tell the suspect that and his reaction was that he felt bad about it. Now, this all stems from an incident. Some sort of fight that broke out here at john d. Morgan park at the baseball field. Now, here is a photograph of 24 yearold todd tharp under arrest for the murder of a 16 yearold boy from san jose. They say at 8 30 last night, the teen was with his friends near the bleachers and the baseball field. They got into an argument with tharp. It turned physical. Tharp was beat up. The teen was stabbed. Its unclear who injured who first. We feel very confident that we have the suspect in custody and that we are interviewing the correct people that were involved and, you know, all homicides are difficult. We do have a very thorough investigation on them all. It will take quite a while before we know exactly what happened out here. Reporter police say after the stabbing, tharp ran away and the teen was taken to the hospital. He died at the hospital. They say its a possibility that tharp was trying to defend himself against the group when he stabbed the boy. Tharps friends are shocked. Never violence. Even though he carries a dagger on the back of his pants doesnt make him dangerous. Reporter he carries that for what . Protection. Reporter you have to carry weapons out here for protection sometimes. Police tell us the boy used to attend Westmont High School but he left and they believe he attends an Alternative High School called bonton in campbell. This is the first homicide of the year. Reporting live from campbell, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. 8 35. A real tragedy in santa rosa after a beloved music teacher and her motherinlaw were killed in a car crash. Brian flores live near the crash scene now with more on how investigators say disstrarblthed distracted driving was a factor in the crash. Reporter thats right. Its a very difficult day. Shows who knew sue and her mother in mother. They were on their way to celebrate sues vehicle. If we go to video, police say sue and her motherinlaw were in the back seat of that toyota camry when they were hit he from behind. Drive her of the pickup truck was identified by investigators as 36 years old. Police say he was looking at a text message before impact. Police say investigators are looking into possible pot use before the crash. As there was evidence found at the scene. He was teen to be driving 60 miles an hour when it hit the stopped camry. Also in the car was jay was jay, sues husband. Jay has this message for people who may think of using their cell phone while behind the wheel. Keep it in your pocket. Keep it in your pocket. The thing about it, you dont need to get it right now. It can wait. Reporter now, this was sue conducting her students in chorus last month. She was a popular and loved music teacher. In fact, she was the only music teacher in the district going from school to school, teaching thousands of kids throughout the year. As for man who was in the accident with these people, he is out on bail. Brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. 8 37. A woman in her 60s is recovering this morning after being hit by a car in San Francisco. Police were called to 39th around 9 45 last night. Police say the woman was in the crosswalk when she was hit. But may have been intoxicated. The driver stayed at the scene and was cited for driving without a license and driving without the headlights on. In the meantime, a man is fighting for his life after being hit by a tour bus in San Francisco. This happened yesterday morning at 7th and mission treatment. In the citys south of market area. Investigators say a super site seeing bus was turning left and was hurt. His belongings, including a cane were scattered on the street. The bus has a 26year history of safety. Were also concerned about the locals and the pedestrians. And our Safety Record is impeccably clean. Were very proud of that. 8 38. Uc berkeley tapping into an old mineshaft to study the hayward fault. The shaft is on the dal campus on oxford. It ran nearly 900 feat on feet on the ground. Researchers hope to install seismographs an High Frequency microphones to detect the sound of the hayward fault. Those sounds may provide some answers about the mysteries of earthquakes. A San Francisco judge will hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by real estate voppers who want developers who want to remove proposition b. If approved, it would require voter approval for any future San Francisco Waterfront Development projects that exceed the existing height limits. The developers lawsuit is arguing by law, its a San Francisco Port Commission that decides what gets built on San Franciscos water front. Friends and family of missing teenager sierra lamar came together to, ma the second anniversary of her disappearance. I will remember you the emotional gathering took place at Washington High School where sierra would have been a senior this year. A new bench was recently built in er in her honor. And it circles around the campus cheerleading tree where sierra spent a lot of her time. Im hoping to god shes still alive. And i just hope this will bring more publicity here to find her. Her classmates keep her memory alive. The suspect, Antolin Garcia torres, pleaded not guilty last month to kidnapping and murder. Shes been charged in three months of atiltedkeyinged a carjacking for incidents dating back to 2009. Thats when hes accused of assaulting three women outside of south bay supermarkets. Hes expected back in court april 16th. A dramatic weekend rescue in Sonoma County. A dog falls 40 feet down the side of a cliff. It was stuck on a 2foot by 2 foot ledge near pore portuguese bend. The deputy pulled the dog to safety. It took three mits. Sheriff avenue officials headed there quickly because they were worried somebody might go down to rescue the dog and end up getting stuck themselves or even hurt. 19 minutes before 9 00. Its the countrys oldest parade in the country. The people boycotting it and the controversial issue at the center of it all. Reporter and the search for a driver of a pickup truck who Police Say Truck and killed a woman as she was walking along the sidewalk late last night. Well show you new Surveillance Video. Big backup at the san mateo bridge this morning. Well tell you why and well also show you some other hot spots. Overcast and breezy for some. It will be a cooler day. How much cooler and for how long. Booooorrk its beef and pork get bacon in your burger. Jacks new bacon insider has a juicy beef patty with bacon mixed right into it, plus bacon strips and bacon mayo on a new gourmet brioche bun. Get bacon in your burger. Moooiiink. 8 44. Concord police are searching for the hitandrun driver who struck and killed a person walking along a sidewalk late last night. Investigators are hoping Surveillance Video will give them a better look at the pickup truck involved in this deadly crash. Alex savidge has been involved on the scene. He joins us with new Surveillance Video. Alex . Reporter well, good morning to you. This video shows the victim in this case, minutes before the crash. Minutes before a pickup truck slams into where shes walking along the sidewalk. This is video from a nearby market. Well show it to you here. This piece of video was looked at by the Concord Police Department Last night. It shows a woman here. You can see pushing a shopping cart in front of that store. This was shortly after the crash happened up the street from there. This appears to be the same woman struck and killed. This collision was around 11 40 and Concord Police say a pickup jumped the car curb and slammed into her as she was walking along the sidewalk. This truck drove off without stopping and police are trying to track down the driver this morning. They are not sure exactly how fast the truck was going or why the driverrest will the roadwood driver left the roadway. Officers did talk with witnesses late last night but they whether only able to get a very vague description of the truck. They are searching for a pickup truck with front end damage. There were pieces of that truck that were left behind at the scene. Officers found the pieces. They were collected as evidence. They could be key to tracking down the driver in this case. As for the victim, Concord Police are not reesleasing much in the way of information release much in the way of of information here other to say she lived here. Police continuing to search for that hitandrun driver. Were live this morning in concord, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. A gay rights controversy back east, it is damperring the spirits of the people celebrating st. Paddys day. Maam cook is in the newsroom tell pam cook is in the newsroom telling us about boycotts happening around the country. Wellknown people and companies are staying away because gay groups are not allowed to march openly. The mayor of new york and the city council are not taking part in the parade in new york and now big beermakers have push lickly pulled their support of the publicly pulled their support of the event. Religious groups are angry. Trying to shove the gay agenda down our throats with the help of people like the mayor. Im not marching in the parade if people cant express who they are. Thats bostons mayor who boycotted his parade even though hes the first Irish American mayor in 20 years. Gay veterans were not allowed to march in the boston marade with their own manner. Irelands Prime Minister weighed in by saying the holidayish is about irishness not sexuality. Pam cook, ktvu channel 2 news. Honda is recalling more than 886,000 of its odyssey minivans in the u. S. Because of a possible fuel leak. The recall covers the minivan from the model years. The cover on the fuel pump strainer can deteriorate and crack and that could lead to a leak that could pose a fire risk. No fires have been reported but it plans to notify all affected odyssey owners about replacing that cover. Wow. All right. 8 48. Sals off. We have tara. Now you are telling us about a problem in the north bay. Some leprechauns on the side of the freeway. Just kidding. Wild turkeys on 101 northbound. Be aware if you live in the area. In san jose, we have backup on 101 northbound. You can see right there on the righthand side of your screen. At the bay bridge toll plaza, its still congested but the conditions have improved somewhat. Once you get through the toll plaza, its not that bad but it is still sluggish on 80 westbound from hercules all the way to the maze. Highway 24 westbound its a bit blurry but we do have traffic as you make your way towards the caldecott tunnel. A shot of the green hills almost makes you feel like you are in ireland. Thats correct. A viewer wrote and said i had bad manners when you tossed to me. I didnt hear you. Happy st. Patricks day is what you should have said. [laughter] wear a green tie to make up for. Some mornings you just dont want to get up. I never im never mean to tara. We have low cloud over parts of the peninsula. It will be cooler, windy for some. Breezy for others. Our system gave us some drizzle. Very light rain. A couple reports, in San Francisco, peninsula, san mateo, pacifica. Clearing is taking place to the north. You can see where it is. The cool air to the north bay. It will filter in. A lot of upper 60s. And a pretty good westerly breeze in place. Its been up to about 30 in some of the higher elevations. Wind advisories out to the sll. Some areas if you are far enough east, it will be sunny later on. Many gale warnings on the coast. On the coast and in the hills for everybody, a breezy, blustery day. Cooler as well. Well take that tonight in wind protected areas could be back in the 30s. Highs today, 60s and very low 70s again. Down 10 for some even more so for others. A low lot of 60s. Temperatures dropping off. Still winter for another couple of days. Well say hello to spring on thursday. No rain until maybe the 27th or 28th. Overall, it looks sunny for the weekend but not as warm as last weekend. Thank you, steve. Nine minutes before 9 00. Big changes could be coming to the scrabble dictionary. Nom of the some of the hip new words you could soon be allowed to use when you play scrabble. Safeway presents real big deals of the week. Or how to find big savings on the things you need. Just make a Straight Line to safeway. Your club card gets you deals you cant find anywhere else. Right now, fresh driscolls strawberries are just 1. 99. Make it an extra scoop. Breyers ice cream is only 2. 88. And arrowhead water is just 3. 29 a case. Real big deals this week and every week. Only at safeway. Ingredients for life. Scary moments for nearly 200 people on a Delta Airlines after a panel on one of the wings flew off. 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The commission will tell people about water saving devices that can help save gallons of water. Happening today, the gang Developers Conference is kicking off. In is the worlds biggest and longestrunning professionals only event. More than 23,000 programmers, designers and other professionals will be there. Organizers say the goal is to make better games to combat issues like race issues and homophobia. Big changes could be coming to the scrabble game dictionary. You may help pick which works make it. The change would be the first in nine years for scrabble. Some of the suggested words include selfie, and hashtag. You can nominate a word on the hasbro game night Facebook Page through march 28th and then on april 2nd, 16 words from the pool of nominations will be selected for a fan vote. That new word will be revealed april 10th. It will be in the new scrabble dictionary released in august. All right. 8 56. Lets check in with tara who is probably the only one on mornings on 2 wearing lovely green. Im representing all of ireland. Erin go brah, as they say. You are letting us know about a backup. This has been the situation. Starting around 7 00 we started to see the traffic from the bay bridge trickle on into the other bridges being impacted. We had the earlier accident in San Francisco. This is a look, live look at the bay bridge toll plaza where you can see that this is pretty bad but its not as bad as it was about an hour ago. At the Richmond San Rafael toll plaza, you can see that theres definitely some backup here. But once you get past the toll plaza, its pretty good across the span. Finally in san mateo, you can see that those clouds have moved in here. The rain has let up. Things are beginning to move better as you make the drive into foster city. Lets head over to steve. Thank you. We do have low include around. Sunny, breeze. Cooler. Temperatures will be in the 60s after the 80s. Not much of a change. Spring begins on thursday morning. All right. Thank you. Any time. Thats our report for this morning. We thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. Be sure to watch ktvu channel 2 news at noon for more than on the deadly hitandrun crash in concord. Were always here for you at ktvu. Com as well as twitter and football. Thank you for twitter as well as twitter and facebook. Thank you for joining us. Have a great day. Its a brandnew week. How about brandnew videos right this minute. A driver says he paid the price. Because somebody ran a r light. See what its like to be [ with you . N update on the puppy with two broken legged. I love bringing you updates like this one. How flutters walking her way to a new forever home. You may think, what a cute, little frog. No, vicious, savage beast. Why it aint