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KTVU News At 5pm July 26, 2013

Easy to 40 miles an hour. We had a gust to 31 miles an hour. What we are looking at in 15 minutes we will talk about the opportunity for the fog when it comes back in, how temperatures are going to change over the next 24 hours and the weekend in view. Stanford university attacked. The University Said someone hacked into its Computer Network and may have compromised the system. Rob roth is live with what its telling its users to do now. Reporter here the investigation is onto try to figure out who hacked into the schools Computer System and why. Many stanford students and employees say they have changed their passwords in to the universitys Computer System today. Last night a official sent an e mail alerting people that the schools Computer System apparently has been hacked. I dont know how that could happen in such a a university that has really good it systems and is in the heart of silicon valley. Of course im upset about his information and what they can do to my data i believe in stanford and their security. Reporter the email said that we do not know the scope of the intrusion but are working closely with Information Security consultants and Law Enforcement to determine its source and impact. We arent aware of any protected health information, personal Financial Information or Social Security numbers being compromised. Stanford doesnt conduct classified research. Twitter gets hacked all the time. Reporter a consultant is readying a booklet and said its becoming more difficult to keep hackers out. It should be very hard but the reality is not that hard. The problem is the Security Systems are Getting Better but the bad guys are too. Reporter and Technology Analysts advise people to use different passwords for different websites. No word on how long the investigation may take. Reporting live we have learned the woman who was gunned down in her neighborhood in broad daylight was pushing for private security because she felt police were not doing enough to keep her safe. We are live now at opd quarters. Reporter police arent offering a lot of detailsful shortly before noon i got this email confirming the identity of the victim and saying the case is being investigated. A memorial has grown near the crime scene where a gunman targeted a 66 year judi solomon. It appears the woman was shot in her own car in broad daylight. Yeah. We heard the crash and saw the two cars and then the lady was in the street. She was alive though at first she passed right there. Reporter now neighbors worry and some want to leave. I want to go. I have a year lease but i dont want to live here. Reporter neighbors say that fern street is a common party spot. Bill is with the council and said solomon was committed to improving the area. She was interested in stirring up private patrol because we feel like we need to protect ourselves if the government wont. Reporter neighbors posted this note telling everybody they will hold a meeting on saturday to discuss that idea of having a private patrol in the area. We will look at the series of high profile crimes and tell you what oakland residents think are the solutions to the citys crime problem. We are live in oakland. The latest killing puts the number of homicides in oakland at 56 so far this year. We looked up figures from 2012 and found there were 64 killings about the same period last year. There were a total of 131 in the city in all of 2012. New developments tonight in a san jose case that was being investigated as a possible homicide. Police there now say that the death of a 62yearold woman yesterday morning was not a homicide. However, they have not provided further details about how she died. Firefighters found the woman in distress in her apartment and called police. The woman died later at the hospital. Purse snatching is on the rise downtown. There is an an increase in purse and bag thefts along with an increase in injuries. They are advising victims not to fight back and that they stay aware of their surroundings, avoid flashing large amounts of cash and remain in well lit areas. Prosecutors say two lake county men abused a teen run away and even kept her in a box while they were running an illegal drug operation. Investigators first found a marijuana farm in april. They found a cache of weapons. Prosecutors have charged the 30 yearold on the left and the 24 yearold. They are accused of manufacturing and distributing marijuana and using a minor in a drug operation. They could face life if convicted. New details in a crash in richmond two months ago that killed a 5yearold. Prosecutors have reportedly filed charges against the girls mother. The San Francisco chronicle reports she faces child endangerment. She was at the wheel may together when her car overturned killing her daughter. Of the six in the suv only the mother was wearing a seatbelt. People inside a beauty salon barely missed harm when a car hit the front of the shop. This happened before 9 30 at tough cuts plus on winchester boulevard. Investigators say that the 92 yearold driver was parked in front of the store. She was ready to drive away when she hit the gas instead of the brake and hit the salon. At least four people were inside at the time. Nobody hurt. So that was good, couple minutes earlier and maybe a couple of people may have been hurt. The owners decided to stay open for business after the crash. People say that the driver didnt receive a citation and was allowed to drive home. Some scary moments for a young brother and sister. The two had to hide as burglars broke into their home. It happened in haywood. Thats where kara is live now with the brave move that led to a suspects quick arrest. Reporter neighbors say that they saw police swarm this neighborhood. A woman said she saw a guy jumping a fence, trying to get away. Police say that all this happened about 10 30 yesterday morning. That is when a 13yearold girl was home babysitting her 8year old brother and heard a noise in the garage. Investigators say she went to check it out, saw a reflection of a man through a window, grabbed her brother, ran to a back bedroom and called her mom who then called the police. Which responded with in 20 seconds of the calm the initial responding officer witnessed two suspects leaving the backyard of the resident they got into a pursuit. Reporter police say they managed to catch up with a 22 yearold who was arrested and have leads on tracking down a second suspect. They say that only a hello kitty radio was missing from the home. Police also say while it would have been a little better had the sister called the police first, they called her actions very brave saying she had to make a split second decision. Both are safe tonight. We are live in haywood. Now to the continuing coverage of the looming possibility of another bart strike. There are now ten days left before the unions 30 day contract extension is set to expire. There were no meetings today but bart said negotiations will resume at nine tomorrow tom reports on why trying to replace bart in the event of another strike is almost impossible. Reporter management seemed to have the upper hand for a moment. I have always been a real strong worker of unions but this time its a little hard to take the only point of having unions is to discuss these things to begin with. If we dont talk nothing will get done. Reporter with the strike looming the Transportation Commission is looking at the mass hiring of private buses for riders. To replace bart we would need around 8,000 buses. Reporter ben owner of events west tours and travel can charters buses. He said that each bus would cost a thousand dollars a day if you can find them. Anything over 50 buses becomes very challenging when you are talking hundreds of buses, its nearly impossible. Reporter these buses are no expensive and so expensive to operate, like airliners they just cant sit around this he have to be working constantly. The average cost is approximately 500,000 new. Reporter what about all the school buss sitting for the summer . If you were talking school buss you have a lot of driver who essentially take the summer off. Reporter and large numbers of qualified driver as the this time of year is nearly him pock. It seems buses are a bust. Ktvu channel 2news. Minutes ago a popular oakland restaurant reopened after a suspicious fire forced it to close last weekend. Flames cut off power to hawker fair restaurant which features one of the star chefs. The owner showed us these images from his camera which he said showed two men setting fire to a dumpster. They said repairs came fast enough to reopen for dinner tonight. In about an hour and 15 minutes the council is set to hold a special meeting to consider taking action against one of its own. Councilmembers cant to censure a councilwoman, accused of improperly taking control of the construction and operation of two teen centers in her district. A grand jury found that contracting, purchasing and hiring rules were circumvented. New, talking with teens at Trayvon Martin. The discussions helping to build a bridge between police and a community. Crimes going unreported. The push by bay area lawmaker to make sure hundreds of crimes on cruise ships made public. First a deadly train crash. What may have played a role in the accident that left at least 80 people dead. In is startling video of that train accident in spain. Watch the right hand side of the screen. A camera caught the passenger train racing around the bend then we see it crashing in to a concrete wall. At least 80 people were killed in that crash. Investigators are questioning the trains driver and looking at if speed or other factors led to the accident many passengers were about to celebrate a public religious holiday. Reporter this was the fatal moment of horror. Watch the security video as this train hurls around a curve, jumps the tracks s into a concrete wall and flips over and skids, all at a horrible high speed. We heard a huge explosion. There were a lot of people hurt. We as the resulted to help them in that train car there and then went to the other cars. That was shocking. Reporter at least 80 people have died. The among them one United States citizen, a state Department Official confirmed today. Immaterial wounded people carrying children. There are no words to describe it. I was devastated. Reporter almost 200 are hurt including five americans. The president said in a Statement Today he is shocked and saddened by the news of yesterdays tragic Train Derailment adding that today the American People mourn with our spanish friends. The days ahead will be focused on what caused the disaster. All options are being looked at but the speed of the train may have been a factor. A formal investigation is underway and the train engineer is being questioned by police. At the crash site teams still digging out. Officials expect to find more bodies. Across spain the sadness spreads. I want to say to the families and friends of victim that you wont be alone and you will always have the support of all the spain spain. A mudslide has forced police to hold westbound interstate 80 traffic at the nevada state line. We want to show you live footage. The mudslide happened around 3 30. Apparently we dont have that picture one eastbound lane is also closed. No injuries or vehicle damage have been reported, the Nevada Department of transportation is working to clear that slide and said it could take at least six hours. Drivers are being told to use another out. A former wrestling coach has been arrested on child porn charges he is a accused of down loading photographs of children on his home computer. He is a photographer but police say he denies taking porn pictures of children. He was the part time wrestling coach for fiveyears at justin sienna high school. Officials say they dont believe any students were involved. San francisco congressman today called the conduct of two Public Officials involved in sex scandals horrible. So disrespectful of women and whats really stunning about it is they dont realize it. They dont have a clue. They are clueless, get a clue. They need therapy do it in private. Reporter Anthony Weiner appeared at a campaign event. He is married apologized again for exchanging lewd images and explicit texts with another woman. The mayor of san diego has been accused of sexually harassing female staffers. Section more dead birds have tested positive for west nile. Vector control said two of them were found in pittsburgh. One each was found in antioch, brett brentwood, concord and oakley. Officials say infected birds let them locatewhere to focus mosquito efforts. At the beginning we talked about winds out there. It was kind of breezy out there for a lot of us today. That area where the fire was. The winds howling through there. We know that and its a traditionally windy place. Firefighters are getting a handle on that fire. Whats going on in the lake tahoe area. I have fog along the coast. You can see that here, hugging the coastline. Then you see the high clouds here until you hit the Sierra Nevada and they work their way north. Thats true with thunderstorms from about kirkwood south. Those storms are all training toward the north. You see all the lightning strikes. There is some wet coming out but you are still getting a lot of lightning and that always causes problems this time of year for firefighters. We will watch that. Around here the temperatures were mild today. A little cooler than yesterday. Someplaces as much as five and eight degrees cooler, still some heat in the inland bay valley but most of the temperatures came down a fee degrees. We had a lot of 60s and low 70s. We have plenty of fog along the coast, sixing along the coast. That gives us that good chance of drizzle tonight. Then into the evening the fog starting to increase and do what it did last night. Itll show up in the bay and around san rafael and the winds 20mile an hour winds will bring that fog in. Overnight lows, 60 antioch. 59 livermore. Overnight upper 50s. Here goes the fog forecast for your friday morning. 7 00 a. M. There it is. Its in the bay. Its up into oakland, into cast robotics valley. Its going into fremont. There it is. Watch how fast it goes away. Like today the sun came out quickly. Temperatures tomorrow will be mostly in the 70s and low 80s. 92 in antioch. Thats one of the warm spots, 86 fairfield, 87 livermore. The forecast highs for friday, warmer than today. 78 in santa rosa, 79napa, just a really nice day. This pattern, with the fire, with the temperatures in the fire zone upper 70s, low 80s. Thats not crazy heat for fire conditions, humanity tyrellively high as well. This pattern we are going into, into the weekend with temperatures trending down in the inland bay valley its helpful for firefighters and air quality. More clouds on saturday and sunday. Monday and tuesday you see the temperatures, this is the highest temperature kicking out of the 90s and going into the mid80s and 84 degrees by tuesday and the hot spots, there you go, a mild fiveday forecast. I will come back at in a little bit and talk about the forecast models for your bay area weekend. We will look at forecast highs for saturday and sunday. Thank you. It may be summertime but it was a busy day at a bay area school. Mills high school hasnt had regular classes since june. Why some students say thats just one reason its unfair to make them retake advanced placement tests. And what we are working on for six. Coming up a story you will only see here. Tonight new information about what was inside flight 214 that could have caused a health risk to firefighters responding to the crash. And a look at a Bay Area College students home of the future and how it could make your house better and less expensive. These and more coming up on the news at six. Look at em. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. You see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldnt just set up a tv in the basement. I mean, come on nope. We could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. Yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, wed have to go to my aunt sallys. Have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch . [ kids cheering ] youre missing a good game over here. Those kids wouldnt have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. Call to get uverse tv for just 19 a month with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. 200 students have been told to retake their advance policement tests after they were thrown out. We are live where some students reluctantly started signing up for the new tests today. Reporter it may be the summer break but there is plenty of action going on behind the scenes here at the school as students fight to get their test scores back and prepare to take the tests again on very short notice. There are no regular classes going on at Mills High School but today is the start of when students can sign up to retake advance placement tests which help in college admissions. The retakes necessary because the College Board and its Testing Service invalidated more than 200 scores last may because of what they called irregular seating arrangements that could have given t some students unfair advantages. They are suggesting that we cheated despite saying there is no proof. Its unfair we are being punished without proof. Reporter many are upset but are reluctantly signing up but compare to running a marathon three months officer training we are run but not as fast and we wont be able to win compared to the rest of the world and its not fair. We are innocent. Reporter students say they will continue to fight even if they have to retake the test. It does bother me. It feels like the big business such as the College Board have been treating the students wrong when they are supposed to be serving us as a company. We are trying to get to as many students as possible so they have that option but are also moving forward with Legal Council to look at all options including litigation. Reporter students have an online petition at why we need our scores back

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