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46-year-old joseph martin has been in jail since last year after a former fifth grade student accused him of molestation and other students then came forward. martin initially faced 150 counts involving 14 boys. his first trial ended in august after the jury acquitted him of charges involving three students but were split on the other counts. the chp officer accused of sharing nude photos taken off the cell phones of women he had arrested turned himself in today. officer shawn harrington has been accused of removing nude photos from the phones of at least two women and texting them. harrington, who resigned from the chp on wednesday, is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon. ♪ happening now -- a funeral service in roseville for sacramento sheriff's deputy danny oliver. oliver and placer county sheriff's detective michael davis were killed in the line of duty last month while investigating a suspicious vehicle. thousands of law enforcement officers are expected at today's service. some from as far away as europe. the funeral procession beep gins after the service at -- begins after the service at 1:00, this will likely impact traffic along southbound 880 to a cemetery in sacramento. services will be held for detective davis tomorrow. turning to our election coverage as voters get ready to head to the polls tomorrow. right now a pre-election forum is happening at a private school in oakland with the top candidates for mayor debating the key issues facing the city. alex savidge is live with the focus for those candidates. >> reporter: tori, good afternoon. yes. the top five candidates for mayor of oakland right now are taking part in a forum that's happening here at head royce school as we speak -- in fact, i understand it just wrapped up a short time ago. they are weighing in on a variety of topics. one of the most critical is public safety here in oakland. the forum is going on inside the gym here. it was organized by the head of the debate program here at this private school. he invited the top five candidates based on the most recent polling. that includes mayor jean quan, counselwoman rebecca kaplan, libby schaaf, brian parker and san francisco state university professor, joe tuman. before everybody headed inside, this morning we talked with mayor quan's four challengers about how to reduce crime and put more officers on the street. >> that's the most urgent need, more police. i have tirelessly studied other cities like particularly los angeles that's reduced violent crime by more than 80%. if they can do it, so can oakland. >> for me, that's the predominant issue in this race. it's the thing that has the greatest negative multiplier on other challengers like education, business investment in the city, creation of jobs. >> if we truly want to be safe, we have to go beyond adding police. we have to make sure that we're investing in education and puts people back to work. >> i would move immediately to restore the working officer beat to every beat so we had a consistent beat presence throughout our city. so would have a chance to get to know people in the community and deter crime with their presence. >> reporter: mayor quan didn't have time to talk with us on camera before the event. there are a total of 15 candidates on the ballot. but not all of them were invited to the forum. most of the audience was head royce students. 6th through 1 pth graders, not of voting age, although there were a fair number of people community members and neighbors and parents in attendance today. live this afternoon in oakland, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. thank you, alex. turning to the south bay, seven-term beam mike mon da and ro khanna are -- incumbent mike honda and ro khanna are urging people to head to the polls. mon dawn says he's running on -- hon dawn -- honda says he's running and stay with you for continuing election coverage. you can go to ktvu.com to find your polling place. look under web links. b.a.r.t. trains are stopped. investigators are looking into the discovery of a body on the tracks. brian flores just heard from a b.a.r.t. spokesperson and joins us live from the north concord station with an update. good afternoon, brian. >> reporter: good afternoon. i want to give you an update as well from the b.a.r.t. service or about b.a.r.t. service. it has resumed from the pittsburg bay station. as for the gates here, they opened up within the past five minutes or so. but again, b.a.r.t. service slowly returning back to normal after a body was found shutting down service from the pittsburg baypoint station to pleasant hill for about two or three hours. but a county bus bridge was set up in both stations. want to go to video from newschopper2. the body covered in stawmp on the southbound tracks, the nearest intersection where it was found. the body was discovered before 9:00 in between the condord and north concord station. it remains unclear if that person was hit by a train. a b.a.r.t. station operator said no one reported hitting anyone. there was blood on the tracks. that's when the police found the body before 9:00. >> part of the investigation will be what exactly happened. we don't know if a train hit the person or the person was deseatsed from other -- deseats -- deceased from other means. i can't confirm if it's related to the 422 a.m. incident. all of that is being determined, including how the person got on the tracks if the first place. >> reporter: for commuters that are taking b.a.r.t., again, between the pittsburg baypoint and pleasant hill, service is resuming back to normal. there is a bus bridge set in place. that will be there for another hour or so. in terms of the investigation b.a.r.t. is looking into whether a report from a citizen seeing someone on the tracks at 4:30 a.m., it remains unclear whether there is a connection there. i just heard from a spokesperson that said there was blunt force trauma to the body found on the tracks. we'll keep up updated at ktvu.com as well as twitter and facebook. we're live from the north concord b.a.r.t. station, brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. plans to extend b.a.r.t. may not happen as originally planned. while the trancy system is extending into the south bay, future stations may be eliminated because of funding issues. janine de la vega joins us live from san jose to tell us why. good afternoon, janine. >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. we're here near the bart tracks which will travel near san jose. this project is come igging along smoothing and funding is secure for the station that stops 59 berryessa -- at berryessa. here is a map of the 6.1 extension into san jose. one station stops in alum rock neighborhood near 28th. then there would be two stops in the downtown area. the last stop would be in santa clara near the university but the valley transportation authority is considering foregoing plans to build the alum rock and santa clara station. it comes down to money. the vta is competing with other organizations and federal officials may require local agencies to have at least 50% of the needed funding. >> we have to be competitive financially that manes that the anticipated cost per new rider can't be more than $4.50 per new rider. and that means do we -- do we save money by eliminating a station or two of the planned four stations for the final segment or are there other ways to reduce costs? >> reporter: simly convalley leadership ceo and chair of the commission thinks it may be financially feasible to build the extension by eliminating one instead of two stations. this news is hitting the community near a church hard because a proposed station is supposed to be located behind it. the city has been planning an urban village with residential units and businesses to revitalize the area. >> there would be no development there. no revital ill station, nothing -- revitalization, nothing. >> reporter: transit officials are expected to submit the proposal in the coming months. there is a community meeting to talk about all of this scheduled for november 12th. reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. gas prices at one bay area station now down to 2.85. we'll tell you where and what analysts say is behind the lower prices. mild conditions around the bay area today. ktvu's rosemary orozco is tracking a warmup and will be here to tell us when we'll see the warmest day of the week. family and friends remember 29-year-old brittany maynard who ended her life over the weekend. the national discussion she sparked about death with dignity. new details now on that terrible halloween hit-and-run crash in santa ana that killed three 1 is idea girls out trick or treating. two victims were twin sisters. the los angeles times today identifies the suspect as 31- year-old jaquin bell. he was arrested outside of a motel yesterday. the girls were walking in a crosswalk around 6:45 at night when they were hit. a uc berkeley fraternity is planning a memorial for one of their members who died while attending a concert at oracle's arena. 20-year-old zachary bradley was at a rave on hall when wean night when he fell about 20 feet from a restricted area behind the stage. the alameda county coreny ner's office is -- coroner's office is investigating the circumstances around the event. another student at the same event said she was surprised to hear what happened. >> personally, what i saw, the security was really, really tight that night. so it is really shocking for all of us. >> a spokesperson for oracle arena is not commenting saying the investigation is being left up to police. bradley's mother is making arrangements to headache his body back to his -- body back to his home state of arizona. the woman who sparked a national stalks about death by dignity ended -- debate about deathby dignity ended her. 29-year-old brittany maynard was diagnosed with a stage 4 brain toucher last spring. after being told -- tumor last spring. after being told it was terminal, she made the decision to die with a doctor's prescription of medications. >> i can't even tell you the amount of relief it shows me that i don't have to die the way it's been described to me that my brain tumor would take me. >> she moved to oregon to are access to the death with dignity act. more details now about efforts to pass the death with dignity law here in california. over the last 25 years, there have been six attempts to pass the same law here. the most recent was in 2007 and 2008. there is now a renewed effort by the nonprofit organization compassion and choices to get the law passed. right now the group is lobbying for support to get the issue on the ballot. fire investigators are now trying to determine what sparked a garage fire early this morning. it happened around 3:30 on san carlos avenue near clayton road in concord. this photo of the garage engulfed in flames was tweeted out by the contra costa county fire department. firefighters say three people lived in the home but no one was hurt. an unexpected surprise at some local gas stations this morning. as one gas station at mckee and 33rd lowered the price of regular unleaded to 2.8 a. the manager says -- 2.85. the manager said the price went down 12 cents to compete with a flabbing gas station selling gas for 2.90 and says the price may go lower depending on what his neighbor does. customers have been lining up saying it's been a long time since they've seen such low gas prices. >> i haven't seen 2.82, 2.85 in over -- years. it's been years. >> reporter: how does it feel? >> it feels great. i felled my van for $76. usually it's $10. >> some people are so happy, they are taking photos of the pump and spreadingth word on social media. media. a whistle-blower contacted 2 investigates with major concerns about safety, inside a busy san francisco tunnel. an employee of the san francisco public utilities commission says there are still serious issues at the broadway tunnel. he says a retrofit project meant to save money and make things energy efficient wasted thousands of dollars and made the tunnel too bright. >> it was clear that something had gone wrong in the design process. somebody's gonna get hurt hour killed. >> tonight at 10:00, 2 investigates uncovers the money trail and the response to the concerns raised by its own employee that efforts to fix the problem did not go far enough. the new eastern span of the bay bridge may end up with a deficit of $35 million or even higher. that's because there's still a lot of unbudgeted work that needs to be done according to the project manager. in addition, tearing down the old span is expected to cost much more than originally estimated. previously caltrans predicted the project would cost less than a budgeted 6.4 billion. pleasant weather shaping up over the bay area this afternoon. we do have a mix of sunshine and a few high clouds. giving you a live view into san francisco, you can see there, the bay bridge. if you look up above you can see the mid and high level clouds. we'll turn to the satellite and i will show you where the clouds are coming from. coming in from the northwest and that's pretty much how our flow is going. you can almost see how the clouds move in this direction. i will back it up and show you where the clouds are stemming from. we do have a ridge of high pressure over the pacific. you can see how the clouds are sort of being shifted right into the bay area. eventually, this ridge is going to shift a little bit closer to our coastline and as it does, the ridge is going to continue to bring us a warmup. so for today, in and out of the high clouds, temperatures a few degrees cooler. but a warming week will happen. i think wednesday and thursday. we're mild today, a little warmer tomorrow and by midweek wednesday, some of us nearing 80 degrees. i will show you that in the extended forecast. outside the doors right now, 60 degrees in san francisco. low 60s in oakland. 67 for you concord, 65 in livermore, 66 in the north bay in novato. 65 for santa rosa. along the coast, partly cloudy skies. 63 half moon bay. and into the south bay. san jose, you are checking in at 65 as well. the afternoon highs for today, going to near spent for some. 6 expected for sonoma -- 68 expected for sonoma. upper 60s in sausalito. beautiful day along the waterfront as well as in san francisco. 66 for alameda. you have a nice day coming your way. upper 60s to near 70 for antioch and brentwood. how about the south bay? gilroy, you will go to 72 for the second half. 68 expected for san jose. 69, santa clara and upper 60s for cupertino. san francisco, 66 for today, low to mid-60s expected along the coast with mostly sunny skies. the extended forecast here again showing you this warmup that will will continue for wednesday. tuesday, we'll look to hold steady on thursday. the weekend, temperatures drift back but not by a whole lot. low to mid-70s around the bay. pupper 70s inland. plenty of sunshine. i would like to see some rain on that extended forecast. but those numbers look nice. >> okay. all right. enjoy the sunshine. thank you. >> you are welcome. if you played this weekend's powerball lottery, check your ticket. we'll tell you how much it's worth and where it was sold. stocks moving between slight gains and losses as investors brace for losses and news including the european bank on whether it will stake more steps to stimulate the economy. the dow and s&p 500 closed at record highs on friday. the dow is currently down 26. the s&p is also down 1. the nasdaq, though, is up 4. apple fans are gonna have to wait a little longer for apple's new smart watch. the company planned to launch the apple watch early next year. but now the site, 9 to 5 mac says it will delay this until the spring. according to reports, the company wants to improve the device's battery which currently needs to be charged every day. cal cal poly says that bite peter oppenheimer and his wife are donating $20 million to the school's college of agriculture, food and environmental services. they are both cal poly graduates. peter oppenheimer was chief financial officer for apple and is currently working at goldman sachs. someone in the bay area may be holding onto a power ticket worth $360,000. it was sold saturday night at the spoke for less store in san pablo. it matches all five numbers, only mitch it's mig the powerball -- only missing the powerball. here's a look at the winning numbers. they are 1, 3, 13, 25, 38, the powerball is 17. music legend and bay area resident carlos santana is opening up about his new booking. the book traces his life from his childhood in mexico to a young adult and the path to his successful career. in his book, he says he strives to to provide his fans with something you a thenty kit. >> we are living in a time when everybody sounds like disposable sound bites. i don't want to be that. i want to create 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