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loss of their dear friend and brother. >> he would make me laugh when i was down. we would state everywhere. i just really miss him. >> reporter: i did speak with some of the boy's family members who told me they will be out here at the intersection for tonight's vigil. that candle light vigil start at 6:00. >> i know you spoke so some of ivan's friends and teach tores. what did they say about him? >> reporter: i went to his high school. when i was there, i introduced myself to the principal. she said ivan was very sweet and embedded in the community. something unusual for a freshman who had only been there for three months or so. she took time to tell me the story that she had to go to his locker and when she opened it up, she saw his skateboard. it hit her emotionally. she took it to ivan's mom. an emotional moment for those there. and for the deputies who told us they were sent home from the scene because they were very impacted by what happened last night when they found out that indeed a teenager had been killed. >> absolutely. just 14. thank you mike. sad news tonight about our missing tech worker in san francisco. it appears a body found in the bay is that of dan ha. >> reporter: the family had hoped the story of their son would not end in grief, but apparently it has. the san francisco medical examiner has not positively identified the body found floating in the bay near alcatraz yesterday, but relatives are convinced it is him who left his apartment on brennan street halloween night and never came back. >> clothes, wallet contents and phone match his personal belongings. >> reporter: it will be up to the medical examiner to determine the cause of death. hay don't believe ha took his own life. >> he left no note. he had a doctor's appointment the morningover his disappearance. >> reporter: family members created their own website dedicated to finding dan ha tried to collect surveillance video. they criticized the police saying relatives are the ones who fed them tip. >> i understand the family is upset. they want to know what happened to their loved one, but the department has worked hard. the investigator has come in on his weekends off and on evenings working late. >> reporter: a memorial service is being planned for dan ha for friday evening at saint matthews lutheran church. >> we are in shock. >> reporter: in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. new video here of a water main break that has shut down a road this evening. take a look. the break sent water flooding into the street about 3:00 this afternoon. the municipal water district says an eight inch cast iron pipe broke. it remains closed while crews repair the broken bike. drivers are urged to avoid this area. let's talk about the weather now. some rain is on the way. we go to our weather center and our chief meteorologist bill martin. how long until it gets here? >> by 10:00 tonight. tune in, i will have some showers showing up in the north bay. we are getting rain as we go into tomorrow mornings compute as well. that is the headline. overnight shower ins the forecast. not a huge storm, but it is rain and we need it. it is a good thing. here's the current imagery, you can see this is drizzle, sprinkles. the dynamics, the strength of this weather system is right in here. this will slide through the bay area after midnight tonight. we will spin the radars, we have three working for you. all doppler radars, one out of davis, eureka, and another in the san jose area. but nothing showing up yet. they will be though by 10:00, 11:00 tonight. here is a computer model. about midnight tonight, look at that. that is some rain moving in. it will keep comeing in after this first initial burst. that means a wet morning commute. i will take you through the morning commute and give you an idea of what you can expect. there is more potential storms out behind this one. so we mr. have all that back after the break. >> a four-year-old santa rosa boy who fell is still hospitalized tonight with serious injuries. sebastian johnson has broken bones and other injuries. he was transferred to the children's hospital in oakland where he remains in intensive care. his father says he was with his family throwing rocks near the cliff when the little boy lost his footing and fell 225 feet to the rocks below. >> we have new information tonight on the death of a baby gorilla at the san jose zoo. we have received documents about what happened in the moments before and after she was crushed by a hydraulic door. heather holmes is here now with what that letter says. >> reporter: the accident happened last friday as the gorillas were taken into their nighttime enclosure. a zoo official sent us a handwritten statement by the zoo worker who was at the controls of the hydraulic door and it says in part, "i began to close lek rick door 4. when i looked at the door, it was closed and she was caught in the door across her chest. and immediately, i opened and i immediately opened the door and bewang took her into the room. it took 20 or 50 minutes to get bawang and kabibe separated. we were sent a photo of a sign posted near the door. it says that handlers must keep their hands on the emergency stop button at all times. it also says not to leave the electrical panel until operation of the door is complete. i want to show you some video of kabibe that was posted on facebook. you can see her interacting with visitors. so cute. the young gorilla is shown here playing. we are told her grandmother and primary caretaker along with the other gorillas are grieving her loss. the spokeswoman calls it a tragic accident and they were trying to investigate what went wrong on the night she went wrong. gridlock. trucks lined up to deliver and receive their loads at the port of oakland were instead stranded. two groups are deadlocked over a labor contract that expired back in july. they have been negotiating since may. cheetos bigger impasse for jobs and look ahead for the holidays. >> reporter: indeed, it has been a slow motion labor management train wreck that is building up. and if it should occur, you and i will pay for it. today, without notice, one of the port of oakland's heartest container terminals closed claiming labor troubles. labor workers were left in the lurch. >> i was in the terminal and i got turned around. they said basically, labor forces expired. >> you delay one trucker. another is delayed. >> reporter: the long contract battle between long shore workers and the pacific maritime association could quickly degenerate into a strike or a lockout up and down the entire west coast directly impacting 75,000 jobs. hundreds of thousands on the coast. holiday imports, experts, are already sending some cargo shifts to the gulf and canadian ports. >> if this doesn't get resolved, we are going the see significantly higher prices at the stores if the goods are there. >> reporter: they are implementing severe slow down tactics. the union says the shippers are mismanaging the terminals and adds this. >> after five months of negotiating, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the workers are frustrated. >> reporter: truckers say some pickups or drop offs which take an hour or so have been taking four hours. >> it is just going to get worse before it gets better. >> it takes away from my family. and also, it hurts the companies that we work for. >> reporter: it is one thing that the union and an employ can't get along, but either party could shut down all west coast ports as was done by the ship 20 years ago causing chaos and loss of billions of dollars a day. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. kaiser permanente wrapped up on striking issues. they struck in 35 cities. the nurses say they deserve sufficient staffing, training, and equipment. kaiser says it is not sure why the nurses are striking now and says it has responded to their contract proposal. today boast sides said they hope to resume bargaining as soon as possible. suspended state senator leland yee and raymond chow will not go to trial together. the first would focus on yee and jackson who were both allegedly involved in bribery schemes. raymond chow faces charges of money laundering and conspiracy. the judge has not set any trial dates. from sesame street to the cell block? >> i have never done anything illegal. >> the efficient harassment on fisherman's wharf that will have this elmo in court. >> why buckets of poison are killing fish on purpose. >> and dangling from scaffolding on the world trade center. every day is a new opportunity to help make life better right here in san francisco. whether it's helping local businesses like the fruitguys grow and prosper, supporting nonprofits like juma ventures as they fulfill their mission or helping neighborhoods like the tenderloin become vibrant communities. if there's a way to help the people of san francisco thrive and succeed, we'll find it. that's the power of local connections. that's bank of america. ( siren wails ) ( pop music playing ) ♪ when you're ready ♪ ready, ready, ready ♪ come and get it ♪ get it, get it ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na na na na ♪ ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na... female announcer: it's a great big world and it can all be yours. here and only here. ♪ come and get it. >> two window washers are rescued after becoming trapped on a dangling scaffolding outside the nation's tallest building. they were 68 stories up on the one world trade center in new york city then they had a problem with the cable mechanism. the workers were stuck more than an hour, you see them there dangling. the fire department had to cut a hole through two inch thick triple pane glass to get the workers in to safety. >> the workers were safely brought in and transported to the hospital with only mild hypothermia. that was the extent of the injuries. the workers were tethered and communicating with firefighters over the radio through the entire ordeal. one world trade center opened up earlier this month. it is the tallest building in the western hemisphere. it has 104 stories and standing 1776 feet tall. the window washers were stranded about 1100 feet up. we decided to compare that fight with so landmark. the transamerica pyramid is 853 feet tall. the oakland tribune, 305 feet. you would have to stack five koit towers end to end to get as high as the window washers were. happening now, a rally for peace is underway after five people who went to the same high school in richmond were shot in a singing week. a one of them, a 16-year-old was killed. paul chambers is there tonight. >> reporter: there's hundreds of people out here from eight different high schools. owl of them here to celebrate the young man's life and call for an end of violence. >> he was a happy kid. and that made him a likable person on the campus. >> reporter: principal jose is talking about this young man rodney frazier. he was shot and killed friday outside his home. since last tuesday, four other current or former richmond high school students have been shot but are recovering from their injuries. brief counselors were at the school to help students and staff deal with the news. something he feels is happening all too often in this community. >> this is something that doesn't affect them the same way this would affect in a different community. there are sometimes, i think, too quick to move on. >> reporter: you see the people here in solidarity holding candle lights. we are expecting to hear from the family of rodney and the police chief. we will bring that part for you coming up at 6:00. live in richmond, paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. back to you frank. >> thank you paul. for the first time ever, a spacecraft has touched down on a comet. [ cheers and applause ] the landing set off big celebrations at the european space agency headquarters in germmy. nay said the land relaunched onto the two-and-a-half mile wide comet at 8:00 this morning. but it likely had a rough landing. harpoons failed to deploy properly that would have anchored it. but its instruments are working and it is sending these pictures back. they are hoping it provides them with all the valuable information we need. >> the aim is to unlock the treasures of this 4.6 billion years october. >> the idea is it for stay on the comet as it hurls toward the sun. things will be changing. let's go to chief meteorologist bill martin. we are getting the rain. >> and we are all wearing purple. that never happens. it will never happen again. yeah. >> we didn't call each other. >> no, gosh no. it is going to rain about here as we get late tonight. early tomorrow morning. the morning commute looks like it will be a little damp out there. mainly early morning. 4:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m. commute. and people do commute that early. temperatures today, like yesterday, very similar. a for clouds lingering around. boy, has it been cold? look at the nation's midsection. these are current temperatures, 2 degrees in denver. 6 degrees in billings. it has been very cold and it will continue to stay cold as the cold front moves off into the eastern part of the country. there is our weather system. not a real big one, but enough to bring us a few sprinkles. you see some green offshore now. that is light sprinkle activity. as we go into the next few hours, especially the north bay, you can see the showers will start to drop down. tomorrow morn education commute will be very wet. here are the hits, runs, and errors, the shower in the north bay about 9:00. midnight, we will see showers throughout parts of san francisco and south toward redwood city. the morning commute, i think we could see light showers from the sky. we will have wet on the roads and if we get a half inch of rain, that will be great. most of us will get a tenth to a quarter of an inch. so mostly cloudy this evening. the showers develop as this system gets closer. it is on a one to ten scale, the system is about a five for a wintertime storm. not a lot. not what we need certainly, but something. midnight tonight, there it is it's raining. here we go. at 3:00 a.m., now it is kind of right. it is all over. the frontal system is not that well organized so we are going to see splotchy sure activity. then, there is 7:00 a.m. so a lot of you guys are on the roadway at that time. you know how it is. it is not the kind of deal where you have a pooling of water, notes a lot of hydroplaning issue, but it will be slick. we have some stuff stacked onto us for next week. forecast highs, petaluma, 63. 63 san mateo. 67 pleasanton. sun should come out in the afternoon. temperatures stay relatively mild. to the weekend, we start to warm up. and we start to cool down and bring more showers in hopefully next week, something a little more progressive and stronger than what i'm pointing at right now. so yeah. rain is coming. i'm not overly excited. you can tell when i get worked up. i'm not worked up about this because we need more. but it is coming. we will get a quarter of an inch, to a tenth of an inch. i guess that is not purple. yours is pink. >> fucia. 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>> reporter: 10 to 12 million people visit the wharf. the fear is that there would be bad wort of mouth. that is people who had an encounter with mr. sandler and go back and tell people in their home countries or states this happened. they secured a temporary stay away order from him. the hope is if he is convicted they will be able to score a three-year stay away order. >> thanks david. a suspected drunk driver is facing charges after a woman was hit and killed by a car while walking in east san jose. the 74-year-old woman died at the scene. she was hit at barbary lane and south king road before 4:30 yesterday. today, she was identified as rohilia chohalino. the driver stopped and jamie hernandez was arrested. he is now in county jail. it poses a toxic threat to children and the problem is growing. the number of nicotine poisoning cases stemming from e- cigarettes has doubled this year. 2 investigates asked why a potential solution that could reduce the number of e- cigarettes, child poisoning is not required by law. >> reporter: melanie woodrow is here to explain. >> reporter: this is a child resistant cap like one you would find on a bottle of medicine. a quarter teaspoon of this liquid is enough to kill a child if it is ingested or absorbed. an increasing number of children in california are gaining access to it. the growing popularity of e- cigarettes accounts for the growing number of calls to poison control. in 2012, there were 28 calls. in 2013. nearly 106 calls. and with two months still left in 2014. that number has practically doubled to 203 calls. more than 60% of victims this year have been five years old our younger. a lot of e-cigarette nicotine liquid is candy flavors. mom nicole oliver says her daughter drank half a bottle. >> she has way over the od limit. and obviously, she was not even like this. you pick um her arm, and it would fall. >> it is so totally unregulated that we should be alarmed. >> reporter: bay area congresswoman jackie spira called for child resis tent caps on e-cigarette liquid to curb the poisoning. they wanted to put them on a test. we asked four and six-year-olds to try and open two bottles. one with the child resistant cap and one without it. we will have the result of that experiment and 10:00 and tell you the growing regulations the e-cigarette campaign could be facing in california. >> no such regulation yet. if it passed, which agency is in charge of such a thing? >> reporter: great question. it would likely be split between consumer product safety commission and fda. cpc would be responsible for the packaging and the fda, the contents inside the bottle. >> so just to be clear. right now, all you do is open the cap? there is no resistance to it tonight? >> well you will see tonight, one store owner chooses these child resistant cap. they spin around if you don't push them the right way. but other stores don't make that same choice because they don't have to. >> all right, we will see you at 10:00. >> thanks melanie. 78 years ago today, the bay bridge opened. while construction was still underway on the golden gate bridge. now the u.s. geological survey is tweeting out pictures of the bay at that time. in this one, you can see fort point in the foreground and a boat working on building the golden gate. and in this one, you can see the golden gate is close tore being finished. this is looking from san francisco toward marin county. four point is nestled there right in the middle of the picture. an unusual rescue after a man is stuck inside of a wall for three days. how he was found, how he got there. and how firefighters got him out. >> new developments in a high profile murder case. why the man accused of killing chandra leavy says he should get a new trial. >> getting a second chance. how pilots are helping dogs in oakland get new homes. ♪ ♪ thank you! thank you! dedicated bankers born to go the extra mile. you've been such a big help. it's what i like to do. so you can choose a bank where helping people comes first. chase. so you can. which means it's time thfor the volkswagens here, sign-then-drive event. for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a german-engineered volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the well-crafted all-new golf. if you're wishing for a new volkswagen this season just about all you need is a finely tuned... pen. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit and zero first month's payment on select new volkswagen models. ( siren wails ) ( pop music playing ) ♪ when you're ready ♪ ready, ready, ready ♪ come and get it ♪ get it, get it ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na na na na ♪ ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na... female announcer: it's a great big world and it can all be yours. here and only here. ♪ come and get it. >> for the second year in a row, oakland was named the second most dangerous city in the country. the ranking comes in a 1% decrease in the violent crime compared to last year. the decrease could be compared to the creation of smaller police districts. oakland came in behind number one ranked detroit. memphis came in third. saint louis, at fourth. no other city in california was listed in the top ten. the man convicted of killing washington intern chandra levy went back to court today to ask for a new trial. ingmar guandique was sentenced to 60 years in prison for her death. but he says he was convicted based on false testimony by a one time cell mate. 24-year-old chandra levy disappeared in 2001. her body was eventually found in a washington park in 2002. an unusual rescue today of a man in colorado who was stuck inside a wall for three days. the man was trapped between the interior and exterior laws of a marshalls in longmont. authorities believe that he slipped through a hole in the roof and then fell 20 feet. he was hospitalized with injuries to his legs, but was freed before the temperatures dipped below freezing tonight. >> couldn't handle three hours and i couldn't handle three minutes. >> i done know how you could get behind a wall. >> authorities say he is a transient with a record that includes theft, robbery, trespassing, and assault. they are investigating the incident as a possible case of burglary or trespassing. three days. technology of the future becomes a reality. the local start-up that is creating what you see here. a cover board. and a few things they still need to sort out before it can actually hit the streets. >> these fish killed this morning at this san francisco lake. why scientists purposely poisoned them. >> tracking showers into the bay area. they will be here tonight and for the morning commute. i'll have all the time line you need to know back here. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] follow your joy to a celebration like no other. start your new orleans holiday at followyournola.com. >> new details now in the officer involved shooting yesterday in menlo park. the san mateo county coroner's office identified the man as jerry mathi. he was wanted on a series of burglary charges. he was trying to break into a building yesterday when officers arrived on the scene in the afternoon. he ran from the building. they then chased him to willow avenue near middlefield road where they used a stun gun to try to stop him. but police say he then allegedly pulled out a gun. that led to police opening fire and killing him. thousands of pounds of turkeys hauled by a big rig are now going to a local food bank. the big rig crashed in san ramon on southbound 680. it crashed causing minor injuries for the driver. some of the turkey spilled on the road way, but the health inspector said those not damaged are still safe to eat so they are now at the alameda county food bank to help feed the hungry. volunteer pilots are giving oakland dogs new homes to the midwest. they were flown by wings of rescue. they will be flown to washington state where four rescue groups will have foster homes for them. most of them are chihuahuas who ran out of time at the oakland shelter. they hope to reduce the shelter population without youth nausea. >> at no kill oakland, we believe only dogs aggressive beyond rehabilitation or horribly ill should be euthanized. no healthy dog should be killed. >> so when the rescue group says it helped save some 10,000 dogs in three years, it says about 75% of the dogs in shelters are in fact chihuahuas. >> 10,000 dogs? that is remarkable that they have saved. they are really making a difference. let's talk about the weather. bring in chef meteorologist bill martin. we have things to talk about tonight. >> reporter: we do. we have showers back in the forecast. it is good. it is not a lot of rain, but it is some rain and it will impact us late tonight and early tomorrow morning. let me think. if you are pouring concrete, i wouldn't pour concrete or roof a house. if you have construction plans outdoors. it is not a ton of rain, but a little rain can mess that up. painting too. pe, i think you guys are inside for the most part. not a major storm, but it will be wet enough to curtail activities. there is the radar. i have three of them going. one up in eureka. picking up showers here. the system is not well organized at our latitude. for the north, it has some game, but down here, we are on the tail end. if we get a half inch of rain, that is great. that is between 11:00 tonight and 8:00 tomorrow morning. something like that. 25 miles an hour winds, so winds are not an issue, snow level is pretty high. 8,000 feet is up there at as level. here is the low pressure center. here it is. morning showers, morning commute. and as we get into next week, it is kind of a lower latitude weather system. not a low level snow producer but it could be a massive rain producer as we head into late this week. this is still when we have to watch. the models are not sure what to do with it. but they are lining up a little bit which is good. 11:00 tonight. right? a little bit of drizzle showing up? shotgun here around santa rosa. and here we are at is o'clock tomorrow morning. boy, where is the organization with that right? the front is barely there. if you go further north, you will see a line of yellow. that is more organized front. 5:00 a.m. thursday morning. right? it is not a wash-out, but it is wed on the roadways and it will slow things down. 9:00 a.m., winding down and there goes your day. a few clouds lingering. wet roadways. temperatures in the mid 60s . 65 in fairfield. 66 in antioch. 66 in brownwood. air quality is good with this. it is an okay system. it is a 5 on a scale of one to 10. we need more than that. openfully, that series of systems that wants to come in here toward the middle end of next week will be productive for us. there you go. i think this story tomorrow morning will be morning commute mainly in san francisco, san jose, the usual suspects. [ laughter ] >> you know it will be backed up. >> we don't have to drive in the morning. sometimes i just kind of sit back with my coffee and watch it at mornings on 2. watch it all happening. >> think of me driving to school tomorrow morning when you are on the couch with your cup of coffee. >> i'll be missing out on that. >> thank you bill. a controversial fish kill began today in a san francisco lake. despite signs and fliers, some regular visitors say they are surprised. they spread a poison that suffocates fish but doesn't harm the other animals. it is a way of ridding the lake of invasive species. ktvu channel 2 news' john fowler was there to show us this is why the only way to restore the lake. >> reporter: it formed 2,000 years ago by an earthquake, san francisco's mountain lake, now a popular neighborhood park fenced off so crews could spread buckets of poisoning killing all the fish to save the lake. >> that is unfortunate. i don't think they necessarily need to kill the lake to save it. >> reporter: the trust which manages the lake says it had become an algae filled putrid pond. they tried for years to control the fish by netting them. poisoning is their last resort. fish put in the lake by people. some for sport, others just thrown away. >> getting rid of their pets. so there were probably a lot of different reasons about how they got in there. >> reporter: bonings expect all the fish to be dead within a few days. but they say the big challenge is how to keep people from putting nonnative species back in the lake. >> it need to be done. people never should have let their pets into the lake. >> reporter: then, when the invasive species are gone, they are going to restock the lake with native fish, frogs, and turtles. as for disposing of pet goldfish, they are going to create an amnesty station. they plan to restock this pond with native fish, ponds and turtles. >> a little pond site that is covered. and then, we will rescue them from that and take them to animal care and control. >> reporter: in a few years, they say the $13 million restoration project should return mountain like to prest pristine, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. coming up, we will show you how they are going to use hover board technology to make buildings safer for earthquakes. >> a woman beaten with a cell phone charger and the more serious crime a man was trying to commit with that unusual weapon. also, a bay area fire department in need of an ambulance is turning to the people it serves the most to help pay for it. we will explain why crowd sourcing may be the best answers. these stories and more coming up new at 6:00. bulldog: oooh! bulldog: mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale! television announcer: get a serta mattress, any size, for just $197 each piece when you buy the complete set. the $197 mattress sale... bulldog: oh boy! television announcer: ...is on now. ♪ mattress discounters >> a frightening run-in for two u.s. sailors in the navy. they were protested by people in istanbul. they recorded this video. they can see be seen throwing paint on the sailors and putting white sacks on their heads. the navy says they made it back safely to the uss ross that was docked nearby. the aclu says california cities are stepping up surveillance, but giverring the public little imput or access. at least 90 communities have technology such as license plate readers, cameras, or the sting ray which can intercept cell phone signals but the group says cities often fail to allow public debate or provide policies on how the technologies will be used. the aclu says one example is the san jose police department that quietly acquired a drone in january. >> the law enforcement community recognized they made a mistake by acquiring this first and talking to people late sore they stepped back and said we are going the too to do this the right way. we are going to try to explain why we would use the drone. what we expect to do with it. how we would protect our individual rights. >> a public meeting is starting in half an hour in san jose to discuss the drone issue. in san francisco, supervisor john avila wants to set up guidelines for transparency of surveillance. new at 5:00, tonight, it sure looks like a lot of fun, but the inspiration behind this real world hover board is actually pretty serious. the bay area company has created a device that is something we have only seen in movies so far. right now, one person can ride ton hover board but in the future, the creator wants to use it to levitate entire buildings. skateboarding is going airborne and the los gatos start up has a hover board. >> the first line on wikipedia said this was a fictional device. not anymore. >> little girl, stop, i need to borrow your hover board. >> this board uses magnetics to float about an inch off the ground. the 90-pound prototype is slow and easy to ride unlike the one marty mcfly commandeered. >> he is on a hover board! >> some people say it is like snow boarding. some imagined it is how a hover board is supposed to be. no one has ever ridden one before. >> reporter: they are also working on developer kits so engineers can find ways to use the technology. >> the technology can go in anything. when there is a will, there is an opportunity. >> reporter: but there are a few catches. right now, the hover board only fleets over medical services, needs recharging after 15 minutes and it costs $10,000. the developer says he hopes to use hover board technology to levitatebuildings one day saying he was inspired in part by the loma earthquake. saying a floating building is less likely to be damaged in an earthquake. now in 6:00, they are installed around roadways but crash test prove the guardrails don't keep drivers safe. the potentially dangerous design that has cal trans considering taking them down. >> a 14-year-old boy hit and killed bay driver trying to get away from the police. we are learning new details about the chase that ended in the teen's death. >> a pay area fire department turns to crowd sources to buy a new ambulance. why people wouldn't need to pay taxes traditionally used to pay for the life saving equipment. >> bay area coverage starts right now. this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. a 14-year-old boy hit and killed by a driver speeding to get away from police. tonight, friends and family are gathering to remember ivan cruz. even, i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. ktvu has learned new details about the police chase that eventually led to the driver being chased, hitting and killing a high school freshman. mike mibach is at the scene now where those who knew the teenage victim are gathering in his honor. mike? >> reporter: another new detail we just learned. we know some of the boy's friends were just a few paces behind him and actually witnessed him being struck. tonight's vigil is just getting underway. people lighting candles and telling stories about this young man loved by this community. ivan cruz. the teenager who friends say touched so many lives. >> he always had a smile on his face. made people laugh. >> he was a good friend. he was always there for people. >> we took his skateboard out of his locker and took it home to his mom. >> reporter: this is the principal of his school. >> he was a sweet kid. very much part of the community. >> reporter: tonight, the community mourns. >> i told him be safe, i'll see you tomorrow at

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loss of their dear friend and brother. >> he would make me laugh when i was down. we would state everywhere. i just really miss him. >> reporter: i did speak with some of the boy's family members who told me they will be out here at the intersection for tonight's vigil. that candle light vigil start at 6:00. >> i know you spoke so some of ivan's friends and teach tores. what did they say about him? >> reporter: i went to his high school. when i was there, i introduced myself to the principal. she said ivan was very sweet and embedded in the community. something unusual for a freshman who had only been there for three months or so. she took time to tell me the story that she had to go to his locker and when she opened it up, she saw his skateboard. it hit her emotionally. she took it to ivan's mom. an emotional moment for those there. and for the deputies who told us they were sent home from the scene because they were very impacted by what happened last night when they found out that indeed a teenager had been killed. >> absolutely. just 14. thank you mike. sad news tonight about our missing tech worker in san francisco. it appears a body found in the bay is that of dan ha. >> reporter: the family had hoped the story of their son would not end in grief, but apparently it has. the san francisco medical examiner has not positively identified the body found floating in the bay near alcatraz yesterday, but relatives are convinced it is him who left his apartment on brennan street halloween night and never came back. >> clothes, wallet contents and phone match his personal belongings. >> reporter: it will be up to the medical examiner to determine the cause of death. hay don't believe ha took his own life. >> he left no note. he had a doctor's appointment the morningover his disappearance. >> reporter: family members created their own website dedicated to finding dan ha tried to collect surveillance video. they criticized the police saying relatives are the ones who fed them tip. >> i understand the family is upset. they want to know what happened to their loved one, but the department has worked hard. the investigator has come in on his weekends off and on evenings working late. >> reporter: a memorial service is being planned for dan ha for friday evening at saint matthews lutheran church. >> we are in shock. >> reporter: in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. new video here of a water main break that has shut down a road this evening. take a look. the break sent water flooding into the street about 3:00 this afternoon. the municipal water district says an eight inch cast iron pipe broke. it remains closed while crews repair the broken bike. drivers are urged to avoid this area. let's talk about the weather now. some rain is on the way. we go to our weather center and our chief meteorologist bill martin. how long until it gets here? >> by 10:00 tonight. tune in, i will have some showers showing up in the north bay. we are getting rain as we go into tomorrow mornings compute as well. that is the headline. overnight shower ins the forecast. not a huge storm, but it is rain and we need it. it is a good thing. here's the current imagery, you can see this is drizzle, sprinkles. the dynamics, the strength of this weather system is right in here. this will slide through the bay area after midnight tonight. we will spin the radars, we have three working for you. all doppler radars, one out of davis, eureka, and another in the san jose area. but nothing showing up yet. they will be though by 10:00, 11:00 tonight. here is a computer model. about midnight tonight, look at that. that is some rain moving in. it will keep comeing in after this first initial burst. that means a wet morning commute. i will take you through the morning commute and give you an idea of what you can expect. there is more potential storms out behind this one. so we mr. have all that back after the break. >> a four-year-old santa rosa boy who fell is still hospitalized tonight with serious injuries. sebastian johnson has broken bones and other injuries. he was transferred to the children's hospital in oakland where he remains in intensive care. his father says he was with his family throwing rocks near the cliff when the little boy lost his footing and fell 225 feet to the rocks below. >> we have new information tonight on the death of a baby gorilla at the san jose zoo. we have received documents about what happened in the moments before and after she was crushed by a hydraulic door. heather holmes is here now with what that letter says. >> reporter: the accident happened last friday as the gorillas were taken into their nighttime enclosure. a zoo official sent us a handwritten statement by the zoo worker who was at the controls of the hydraulic door and it says in part, "i began to close lek rick door 4. when i looked at the door, it was closed and she was caught in the door across her chest. and immediately, i opened and i immediately opened the door and bewang took her into the room. it took 20 or 50 minutes to get bawang and kabibe separated. we were sent a photo of a sign posted near the door. it says that handlers must keep their hands on the emergency stop button at all times. it also says not to leave the electrical panel until operation of the door is complete. i want to show you some video of kabibe that was posted on facebook. you can see her interacting with visitors. so cute. the young gorilla is shown here playing. we are told her grandmother and primary caretaker along with the other gorillas are grieving her loss. the spokeswoman calls it a tragic accident and they were trying to investigate what went wrong on the night she went wrong. gridlock. trucks lined up to deliver and receive their loads at the port of oakland were instead stranded. two groups are deadlocked over a labor contract that expired back in july. they have been negotiating since may. cheetos bigger impasse for jobs and look ahead for the holidays. >> reporter: indeed, it has been a slow motion labor management train wreck that is building up. and if it should occur, you and i will pay for it. today, without notice, one of the port of oakland's heartest container terminals closed claiming labor troubles. labor workers were left in the lurch. >> i was in the terminal and i got turned around. they said basically, labor forces expired. >> you delay one trucker. another is delayed. >> reporter: the long contract battle between long shore workers and the pacific maritime association could quickly degenerate into a strike or a lockout up and down the entire west coast directly impacting 75,000 jobs. hundreds of thousands on the coast. holiday imports, experts, are already sending some cargo shifts to the gulf and canadian ports. >> if this doesn't get resolved, we are going the see significantly higher prices at the stores if the goods are there. >> reporter: they are implementing severe slow down tactics. the union says the shippers are mismanaging the terminals and adds this. >> after five months of negotiating, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the workers are frustrated. >> reporter: truckers say some pickups or drop offs which take an hour or so have been taking four hours. >> it is just going to get worse before it gets better. >> it takes away from my family. and also, it hurts the companies that we work for. >> reporter: it is one thing that the union and an employ can't get along, but either party could shut down all west coast ports as was done by the ship 20 years ago causing chaos and loss of billions of dollars a day. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. kaiser permanente wrapped up on striking issues. they struck in 35 cities. the nurses say they deserve sufficient staffing, training, and equipment. kaiser says it is not sure why the nurses are striking now and says it has responded to their contract proposal. today boast sides said they hope to resume bargaining as soon as possible. suspended state senator leland yee and raymond chow will not go to trial together. the first would focus on yee and jackson who were both allegedly involved in bribery schemes. raymond chow faces charges of money laundering and conspiracy. the judge has not set any trial dates. from sesame street to the cell block? >> i have never done anything illegal. >> the efficient harassment on fisherman's wharf that will have this elmo in court. >> why buckets of poison are killing fish on purpose. >> and dangling from scaffolding on the world trade center. every day is a new opportunity to help make life better right here in san francisco. whether it's helping local businesses like the fruitguys grow and prosper, supporting nonprofits like juma ventures as they fulfill their mission or helping neighborhoods like the tenderloin become vibrant communities. if there's a way to help the people of san francisco thrive and succeed, we'll find it. that's the power of local connections. that's bank of america. ( siren wails ) ( pop music playing ) ♪ when you're ready ♪ ready, ready, ready ♪ come and get it ♪ get it, get it ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na na na na ♪ ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na... female announcer: it's a great big world and it can all be yours. here and only here. ♪ come and get it. >> two window washers are rescued after becoming trapped on a dangling scaffolding outside the nation's tallest building. they were 68 stories up on the one world trade center in new york city then they had a problem with the cable mechanism. the workers were stuck more than an hour, you see them there dangling. the fire department had to cut a hole through two inch thick triple pane glass to get the workers in to safety. >> the workers were safely brought in and transported to the hospital with only mild hypothermia. that was the extent of the injuries. the workers were tethered and communicating with firefighters over the radio through the entire ordeal. one world trade center opened up earlier this month. it is the tallest building in the western hemisphere. it has 104 stories and standing 1776 feet tall. the window washers were stranded about 1100 feet up. we decided to compare that fight with so landmark. the transamerica pyramid is 853 feet tall. the oakland tribune, 305 feet. you would have to stack five koit towers end to end to get as high as the window washers were. happening now, a rally for peace is underway after five people who went to the same high school in richmond were shot in a singing week. a one of them, a 16-year-old was killed. paul chambers is there tonight. >> reporter: there's hundreds of people out here from eight different high schools. owl of them here to celebrate the young man's life and call for an end of violence. >> he was a happy kid. and that made him a likable person on the campus. >> reporter: principal jose is talking about this young man rodney frazier. he was shot and killed friday outside his home. since last tuesday, four other current or former richmond high school students have been shot but are recovering from their injuries. brief counselors were at the school to help students and staff deal with the news. something he feels is happening all too often in this community. >> this is something that doesn't affect them the same way this would affect in a different community. there are sometimes, i think, too quick to move on. >> reporter: you see the people here in solidarity holding candle lights. we are expecting to hear from the family of rodney and the police chief. we will bring that part for you coming up at 6:00. live in richmond, paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. back to you frank. >> thank you paul. for the first time ever, a spacecraft has touched down on a comet. [ cheers and applause ] the landing set off big celebrations at the european space agency headquarters in germmy. nay said the land relaunched onto the two-and-a-half mile wide comet at 8:00 this morning. but it likely had a rough landing. harpoons failed to deploy properly that would have anchored it. but its instruments are working and it is sending these pictures back. they are hoping it provides them with all the valuable information we need. >> the aim is to unlock the treasures of this 4.6 billion years october. >> the idea is it for stay on the comet as it hurls toward the sun. things will be changing. let's go to chief meteorologist bill martin. we are getting the rain. >> and we are all wearing purple. that never happens. it will never happen again. yeah. >> we didn't call each other. >> no, gosh no. it is going to rain about here as we get late tonight. early tomorrow morning. the morning commute looks like it will be a little damp out there. mainly early morning. 4:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m. commute. and people do commute that early. temperatures today, like yesterday, very similar. a for clouds lingering around. boy, has it been cold? look at the nation's midsection. these are current temperatures, 2 degrees in denver. 6 degrees in billings. it has been very cold and it will continue to stay cold as the cold front moves off into the eastern part of the country. there is our weather system. not a real big one, but enough to bring us a few sprinkles. you see some green offshore now. that is light sprinkle activity. as we go into the next few hours, especially the north bay, you can see the showers will start to drop down. tomorrow morn education commute will be very wet. here are the hits, runs, and errors, the shower in the north bay about 9:00. midnight, we will see showers throughout parts of san francisco and south toward redwood city. the morning commute, i think we could see light showers from the sky. we will have wet on the roads and if we get a half inch of rain, that will be great. most of us will get a tenth to a quarter of an inch. so mostly cloudy this evening. the showers develop as this system gets closer. it is on a one to ten scale, the system is about a five for a wintertime storm. not a lot. not what we need certainly, but something. midnight tonight, there it is it's raining. here we go. at 3:00 a.m., now it is kind of right. it is all over. the frontal system is not that well organized so we are going to see splotchy sure activity. then, there is 7:00 a.m. so a lot of you guys are on the roadway at that time. you know how it is. it is not the kind of deal where you have a pooling of water, notes a lot of hydroplaning issue, but it will be slick. we have some stuff stacked onto us for next week. forecast highs, petaluma, 63. 63 san mateo. 67 pleasanton. sun should come out in the afternoon. temperatures stay relatively mild. to the weekend, we start to warm up. and we start to cool down and bring more showers in hopefully next week, something a little more progressive and stronger than what i'm pointing at right now. so yeah. rain is coming. i'm not overly excited. you can tell when i get worked up. i'm not worked up about this because we need more. but it is coming. we will get a quarter of an inch, to a tenth of an inch. i guess that is not purple. yours is pink. >> fucia. (laughter) thank you phil. a man dressed up as elmo is behind bars held on a quarter million dollars bail. we will tell you the threat he made on businesses against san francisco. >> now to julie haener in the news room. >> reporter: a bay area fire department is bike a new ambulance and it is turning to tourists to help pay for it. >> people don't realize there may not be enough funding fortous be there. so if they can tribute ... >> why crowd sourcing may be the best source of funding for this life saving equipment. and guardrails are supposed to save lives, but no the maker under federal investigation. the allegations that put the drivers at greater risks. these story and more are new at 6:00. television announcer: mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale $197 mattress sale is on now. bulldog: mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale! television announcer: right now, you can get a serta mattress, any size, for just $197 each piece when you buy the complete set. bulldog: any size mattress - twin, full, queen, or king - for one low price! and they'll deliver it free. television announcer: the $197 mattress sale... bulldog: oh boy! television announcer: ...is on now. ♪ mattress discounters at kaiser permanente, everything you need is under one roof. another way care and coverage together makes life easier. okay, a little easier. become a member of kaiser permanente. because together, we thrive. ♪ okay, i'll send it. one hundred seventy-two dollars for a chemistry book. just use citi popmoney. boom. with citi popmoney it's easy to send money to just about anyone, anytime. visit your local branch or citi.com/easierbanking to learn more. >> today, the bridge district approved $10 million to look a at four alternative proposals. last night, we reported the district said several other proposals were too expensive. now, they are going to study those other alternative ideas that would cost less. if built, people would then be able to walk or bike all the way from the east bay into san francisco. we are now hearing from the surviving pilot of the virgin galactic spaceship. peter sevel said he was unaware his co-pilot unlocked the braking system early. investigators say, the co-pilot was killed. supporters of gay marriage are celebrating two more victories tonight. in kansas, the supreme court says same sex marriages can move forward. kansas will be the 33rd u.s. state where same sex couples can get married. and in south carolina today, a federal judge struck down a ban on gay marriage. that state still has time to appeal. but in the meantime, same sex couples will be allowed to start applies for marriage licenses. 200 union nurses held a day of rally. oakland police estimate 2500 nurses marched through the federal building on play street. >> they are trying to blame you. and you know what? 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>> reporter: 10 to 12 million people visit the wharf. the fear is that there would be bad wort of mouth. that is people who had an encounter with mr. sandler and go back and tell people in their home countries or states this happened. they secured a temporary stay away order from him. the hope is if he is convicted they will be able to score a three-year stay away order. >> thanks david. a suspected drunk driver is facing charges after a woman was hit and killed by a car while walking in east san jose. the 74-year-old woman died at the scene. she was hit at barbary lane and south king road before 4:30 yesterday. today, she was identified as rohilia chohalino. the driver stopped and jamie hernandez was arrested. he is now in county jail. it poses a toxic threat to children and the problem is growing. the number of nicotine poisoning cases stemming from e- cigarettes has doubled this year. 2 investigates asked why a potential solution that could reduce the number of e- cigarettes, child poisoning is not required by law. >> reporter: melanie woodrow is here to explain. >> reporter: this is a child resistant cap like one you would find on a bottle of medicine. a quarter teaspoon of this liquid is enough to kill a child if it is ingested or absorbed. an increasing number of children in california are gaining access to it. the growing popularity of e- cigarettes accounts for the growing number of calls to poison control. in 2012, there were 28 calls. in 2013. nearly 106 calls. and with two months still left in 2014. that number has practically doubled to 203 calls. more than 60% of victims this year have been five years old our younger. a lot of e-cigarette nicotine liquid is candy flavors. mom nicole oliver says her daughter drank half a bottle. >> she has way over the od limit. and obviously, she was not even like this. you pick um her arm, and it would fall. >> it is so totally unregulated that we should be alarmed. >> reporter: bay area congresswoman jackie spira called for child resis tent caps on e-cigarette liquid to curb the poisoning. they wanted to put them on a test. we asked four and six-year-olds to try and open two bottles. one with the child resistant cap and one without it. we will have the result of that experiment and 10:00 and tell you the growing regulations the e-cigarette campaign could be facing in california. >> no such regulation yet. if it passed, which agency is in charge of such a thing? >> reporter: great question. it would likely be split between consumer product safety commission and fda. cpc would be responsible for the packaging and the fda, the contents inside the bottle. >> so just to be clear. right now, all you do is open the cap? there is no resistance to it tonight? >> well you will see tonight, one store owner chooses these child resistant cap. they spin around if you don't push them the right way. but other stores don't make that same choice because they don't have to. >> all right, we will see you at 10:00. >> thanks melanie. 78 years ago today, the bay bridge opened. while construction was still underway on the golden gate bridge. now the u.s. geological survey is tweeting out pictures of the bay at that time. in this one, you can see fort point in the foreground and a boat working on building the golden gate. and in this one, you can see the golden gate is close tore being finished. this is looking from san francisco toward marin county. four point is nestled there right in the middle of the picture. an unusual rescue after a man is stuck inside of a wall for three days. how he was found, how he got there. and how firefighters got him out. >> new developments in a high profile murder case. why the man accused of killing chandra leavy says he should get a new trial. >> getting a second chance. how pilots are helping dogs in oakland get new homes. ♪ ♪ thank you! thank you! dedicated bankers born to go the extra mile. you've been such a big help. it's what i like to do. so you can choose a bank where helping people comes first. chase. so you can. which means it's time thfor the volkswagens here, sign-then-drive event. for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a german-engineered volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the well-crafted all-new golf. if you're wishing for a new volkswagen this season just about all you need is a finely tuned... pen. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit and zero first month's payment on select new volkswagen models. ( siren wails ) ( pop music playing ) ♪ when you're ready ♪ ready, ready, ready ♪ come and get it ♪ get it, get it ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na na na na ♪ ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na... female announcer: it's a great big world and it can all be yours. here and only here. ♪ come and get it. >> for the second year in a row, oakland was named the second most dangerous city in the country. the ranking comes in a 1% decrease in the violent crime compared to last year. the decrease could be compared to the creation of smaller police districts. oakland came in behind number one ranked detroit. memphis came in third. saint louis, at fourth. no other city in california was listed in the top ten. the man convicted of killing washington intern chandra levy went back to court today to ask for a new trial. ingmar guandique was sentenced to 60 years in prison for her death. but he says he was convicted based on false testimony by a one time cell mate. 24-year-old chandra levy disappeared in 2001. her body was eventually found in a washington park in 2002. an unusual rescue today of a man in colorado who was stuck inside a wall for three days. the man was trapped between the interior and exterior laws of a marshalls in longmont. authorities believe that he slipped through a hole in the roof and then fell 20 feet. he was hospitalized with injuries to his legs, but was freed before the temperatures dipped below freezing tonight. >> couldn't handle three hours and i couldn't handle three minutes. >> i done know how you could get behind a wall. >> authorities say he is a transient with a record that includes theft, robbery, trespassing, and assault. they are investigating the incident as a possible case of burglary or trespassing. three days. technology of the future becomes a reality. the local start-up that is creating what you see here. a cover board. and a few things they still need to sort out before it can actually hit the streets. >> these fish killed this morning at this san francisco lake. why scientists purposely poisoned them. >> tracking showers into the bay area. they will be here tonight and for the morning commute. i'll have all the time line you need to know back here. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] follow your joy to a celebration like no other. start your new orleans holiday at followyournola.com. >> new details now in the officer involved shooting yesterday in menlo park. the san mateo county coroner's office identified the man as jerry mathi. he was wanted on a series of burglary charges. he was trying to break into a building yesterday when officers arrived on the scene in the afternoon. he ran from the building. they then chased him to willow avenue near middlefield road where they used a stun gun to try to stop him. but police say he then allegedly pulled out a gun. that led to police opening fire and killing him. thousands of pounds of turkeys hauled by a big rig are now going to a local food bank. the big rig crashed in san ramon on southbound 680. it crashed causing minor injuries for the driver. some of the turkey spilled on the road way, but the health inspector said those not damaged are still safe to eat so they are now at the alameda county food bank to help feed the hungry. volunteer pilots are giving oakland dogs new homes to the midwest. they were flown by wings of rescue. they will be flown to washington state where four rescue groups will have foster homes for them. most of them are chihuahuas who ran out of time at the oakland shelter. they hope to reduce the shelter population without youth nausea. >> at no kill oakland, we believe only dogs aggressive beyond rehabilitation or horribly ill should be euthanized. no healthy dog should be killed. >> so when the rescue group says it helped save some 10,000 dogs in three years, it says about 75% of the dogs in shelters are in fact chihuahuas. >> 10,000 dogs? that is remarkable that they have saved. they are really making a difference. let's talk about the weather. bring in chef meteorologist bill martin. we have things to talk about tonight. >> reporter: we do. we have showers back in the forecast. it is good. it is not a lot of rain, but it is some rain and it will impact us late tonight and early tomorrow morning. let me think. if you are pouring concrete, i wouldn't pour concrete or roof a house. if you have construction plans outdoors. it is not a ton of rain, but a little rain can mess that up. painting too. pe, i think you guys are inside for the most part. not a major storm, but it will be wet enough to curtail activities. there is the radar. i have three of them going. one up in eureka. picking up showers here. the system is not well organized at our latitude. for the north, it has some game, but down here, we are on the tail end. if we get a half inch of rain, that is great. that is between 11:00 tonight and 8:00 tomorrow morning. something like that. 25 miles an hour winds, so winds are not an issue, snow level is pretty high. 8,000 feet is up there at as level. here is the low pressure center. here it is. morning showers, morning commute. and as we get into next week, it is kind of a lower latitude weather system. not a low level snow producer but it could be a massive rain producer as we head into late this week. this is still when we have to watch. the models are not sure what to do with it. but they are lining up a little bit which is good. 11:00 tonight. right? a little bit of drizzle showing up? shotgun here around santa rosa. and here we are at is o'clock tomorrow morning. boy, where is the organization with that right? the front is barely there. if you go further north, you will see a line of yellow. that is more organized front. 5:00 a.m. thursday morning. right? it is not a wash-out, but it is wed on the roadways and it will slow things down. 9:00 a.m., winding down and there goes your day. a few clouds lingering. wet roadways. temperatures in the mid 60s . 65 in fairfield. 66 in antioch. 66 in brownwood. air quality is good with this. it is an okay system. it is a 5 on a scale of one to 10. we need more than that. openfully, that series of systems that wants to come in here toward the middle end of next week will be productive for us. there you go. i think this story tomorrow morning will be morning commute mainly in san francisco, san jose, the usual suspects. [ laughter ] >> you know it will be backed up. >> we don't have to drive in the morning. sometimes i just kind of sit back with my coffee and watch it at mornings on 2. watch it all happening. >> think of me driving to school tomorrow morning when you are on the couch with your cup of coffee. >> i'll be missing out on that. >> thank you bill. a controversial fish kill began today in a san francisco lake. despite signs and fliers, some regular visitors say they are surprised. they spread a poison that suffocates fish but doesn't harm the other animals. it is a way of ridding the lake of invasive species. ktvu channel 2 news' john fowler was there to show us this is why the only way to restore the lake. >> reporter: it formed 2,000 years ago by an earthquake, san francisco's mountain lake, now a popular neighborhood park fenced off so crews could spread buckets of poisoning killing all the fish to save the lake. >> that is unfortunate. i don't think they necessarily need to kill the lake to save it. >> reporter: the trust which manages the lake says it had become an algae filled putrid pond. they tried for years to control the fish by netting them. poisoning is their last resort. fish put in the lake by people. some for sport, others just thrown away. >> getting rid of their pets. so there were probably a lot of different reasons about how they got in there. >> reporter: bonings expect all the fish to be dead within a few days. but they say the big challenge is how to keep people from putting nonnative species back in the lake. >> it need to be done. people never should have let their pets into the lake. >> reporter: then, when the invasive species are gone, they are going to restock the lake with native fish, frogs, and turtles. as for disposing of pet goldfish, they are going to create an amnesty station. they plan to restock this pond with native fish, ponds and turtles. >> a little pond site that is covered. and then, we will rescue them from that and take them to animal care and control. >> reporter: in a few years, they say the $13 million restoration project should return mountain like to prest pristine, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. coming up, we will show you how they are going to use hover board technology to make buildings safer for earthquakes. >> a woman beaten with a cell phone charger and the more serious crime a man was trying to commit with that unusual weapon. also, a bay area fire department in need of an ambulance is turning to the people it serves the most to help pay for it. we will explain why crowd sourcing may be the best answers. these stories and more coming up new at 6:00. bulldog: oooh! bulldog: mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale! television announcer: get a serta mattress, any size, for just $197 each piece when you buy the complete set. the $197 mattress sale... bulldog: oh boy! television announcer: ...is on now. ♪ mattress discounters >> a frightening run-in for two u.s. sailors in the navy. they were protested by people in istanbul. they recorded this video. they can see be seen throwing paint on the sailors and putting white sacks on their heads. the navy says they made it back safely to the uss ross that was docked nearby. the aclu says california cities are stepping up surveillance, but giverring the public little imput or access. at least 90 communities have technology such as license plate readers, cameras, or the sting ray which can intercept cell phone signals but the group says cities often fail to allow public debate or provide policies on how the technologies will be used. the aclu says one example is the san jose police department that quietly acquired a drone in january. >> the law enforcement community recognized they made a mistake by acquiring this first and talking to people late sore they stepped back and said we are going the too to do this the right way. we are going to try to explain why we would use the drone. what we expect to do with it. how we would protect our individual rights. >> a public meeting is starting in half an hour in san jose to discuss the drone issue. in san francisco, supervisor john avila wants to set up guidelines for transparency of surveillance. new at 5:00, tonight, it sure looks like a lot of fun, but the inspiration behind this real world hover board is actually pretty serious. the bay area company has created a device that is something we have only seen in movies so far. right now, one person can ride ton hover board but in the future, the creator wants to use it to levitate entire buildings. skateboarding is going airborne and the los gatos start up has a hover board. >> the first line on wikipedia said this was a fictional device. not anymore. >> little girl, stop, i need to borrow your hover board. >> this board uses magnetics to float about an inch off the ground. the 90-pound prototype is slow and easy to ride unlike the one marty mcfly commandeered. >> he is on a hover board! >> some people say it is like snow boarding. some imagined it is how a hover board is supposed to be. no one has ever ridden one before. >> reporter: they are also working on developer kits so engineers can find ways to use the technology. >> the technology can go in anything. when there is a will, there is an opportunity. >> reporter: but there are a few catches. right now, the hover board only fleets over medical services, needs recharging after 15 minutes and it costs $10,000. the developer says he hopes to use hover board technology to levitatebuildings one day saying he was inspired in part by the loma earthquake. saying a floating building is less likely to be damaged in an earthquake. now in 6:00, they are installed around roadways but crash test prove the guardrails don't keep drivers safe. the potentially dangerous design that has cal trans considering taking them down. >> a 14-year-old boy hit and killed bay driver trying to get away from the police. we are learning new details about the chase that ended in the teen's death. >> a pay area fire department turns to crowd sources to buy a new ambulance. why people wouldn't need to pay taxes traditionally used to pay for the life saving equipment. >> bay area coverage starts right now. this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. a 14-year-old boy hit and killed by a driver speeding to get away from police. tonight, friends and family are gathering to remember ivan cruz. even, i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. ktvu has learned new details about the police chase that eventually led to the driver being chased, hitting and killing a high school freshman. mike mibach is at the scene now where those who knew the teenage victim are gathering in his honor. mike? >> reporter: another new detail we just learned. we know some of the boy's friends were just a few paces behind him and actually witnessed him being struck. tonight's vigil is just getting underway. people lighting candles and telling stories about this young man loved by this community. ivan cruz. the teenager who friends say touched so many lives. >> he always had a smile on his face. made people laugh. >> he was a good friend. he was always there for people. >> we took his skateboard out of his locker and took it home to his mom. >> reporter: this is the principal of his school. >> he was a sweet kid. very much part of the community. >> reporter: tonight, the community mourns. >> i told him be safe, i'll see you tomorrow at

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