points that is its tenth largest point gain ever. the nasdaq also regained some but not all of yesterday's loss climbing 124 points. ktvu's patti lee now with opinions on what is moving the markets, patti. >> keeping interest rates low is simply maintaining the status quo. so one expert i talked to today says the implied promise of more drastic action down the line was the catalyst for today's big bounce. one day after its near death experience, the dow rebounded, but the volatility did little to soothe investors frayed nerves. >> you can't control what happens in the markets. you can't control what you do. when you are employed, when you have income you need to be saving. >> the sad thing is when customers are coming to me what safe, there isn't. >> reporter: a move some economists are questioning. >> you're locking yourself into a course of action when changing conditions may dictate something else. >> reporter: economists gary slosburg links the market rebound to the feds willingness to promote a stronger economy. >> what's more effective when growth is weak, when inflation is low and interest rates are already near zero short rates is to pump more money into the systems. >> reporter: still, no one knows when the economy will recover. and every day investors say the uncertainty makes planning for the future a never ending process. >> we probably going to have to work harder and we're going to have to work longer than before. that's all we can really plan for. >> reporter: the question tonight is did the market hit bottom? the answer is anybody's guess. reporting live patti lee, ktvu news. more details now on how the upswing is carrying over into the asian marks. hong kong is up 3% right now. that market has been hit hard in the past couple of days. toke yo's nikkei is up one personalty. the shanghai market is up as well by 2%. the bay area was home for the most valuable company in the world, apple was about a billion dollars higher than exxon. by the end of the day exxon had moved back into first place. some industry analysts expect apple will retake the lead because of strong demand for it's i pad table and iphone. i pad finished the day $24 higher. that's a one day increase of 5.8%. and ktvu.com has more on today's winners and losers including a look at how today ranks among the markets biggest days just look for the wall street tab. a call for action this evening in oakland following that drive by shooting that killed a 3-year-old boy. ktvu's amber lee attended a vigil for that young boy and heard police say there might be an arrest. >> reporter: people continue to stop by here to drop off stuffed animals and to write messages to the family. >> it takes an animal to take the life of a 3-year-old baby on an urban street in the middle of day. >> reporter: asking neighbors to do their part in preventing violence -- >> i say we need to make a stop. >> reporter: the toddler carlos nava was shot and killed while sitting in a toy car yesterday afternoon. he and his mother had just left little cesars. only a few blocks from their home. earlier this afternoon, neighbors stopped by the nava home to express their condolences. >> i can't even explain the pain my cousin and his wife are going through. he can't accept it yesterday. >> reporter: the toddler's mother attended tonight's vigil but did not speak. this 20-year-old woman told us she will never forget the toddler's face as she tried to help his mother. >> he was not talking at all. he was just looking at his mom and trying to be strong because we told him not to fall asleep or nothing. he was just trying to stay away until he couldn't stay awake anymore. >> reporter: police say they stepped up patrol and carrying out warrants. >> within probably the next 24 to 36 hours, potentially we'll have everybody who is aligned with this in custody and brought to justice. >> reporter: chief batts tried to offer comfort to the mother's mother vowing to bring his killers to justice. he thanks people who have come forward with leads. at least two people have been detained for questioning. amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. now to emeryville where crews are working at this hour to repair a water break that created a sinning hole. it happened on 62nd and how well. news chopper 2 is above the scene where water saturateed the ground, under mined the intersection and caused the collapse. the sink hole also exposed a natural gas line and a portion of the transmission line. crews are standing by an accident involving a dump truck filled with gravel caused big problems on the evening commute. it happened near the port chicago exit. caltrans crews had to clean up several cubic yards of spilled gravel. no word on the cause of the accident but all lanes were reopened after about an hour. b.a.r.t. officials say they have figured out what caused the computer system to shutdown. trains were stranded beginning at 7:30 last night. we knew from the start it was a computer problem. today we learned a router system failed then the back up failed too. now b.a.r.t. has a team of people working to find out why. officials did learn from the experience, they say the they know now what to do if it happens again. >> reporter: a 9-year-old boy is making progress tonight as he recovering from being struck by a hit and run driver near at&t park. officials say ryan white of philadelphia was upgraded today to serious condition and that he is now speaking in full sentences. white's family say it is boy suffered a number of injuries including brain trauma after he was hit by a pickup following last thursday's phillies-giants game. major ed lee visited the white family and says he was encouraged by what he saw. >> his eyes were open. he couldn't speak but he gave the thumbs up when he saw me. >> reporter: the hit and run suspect andrew vargas is free on bail tonight. police say the 21-year-old man from hayward was drunk and fled the scene after his truck hit white. vargas was arrested about an hour later, he is now facing felony counts of drunk driving and hit and run and is scheduled to be arraigned on thursday. election day is three months from today and in san francisco's crowded race for mayor money could make the difference. ktvu's david stevenson shows us how a single decision today changed the entire campaign fund raising picture. >> reporter: san francisco mayor ed lee has changed the financing rules in this season's mayoral campaign. >> i had to cut a lot of funds out of the city budget, that's part of my decision. if i don't have to use public funds i prefer not to. >> reporter: the decision not to take public funds frees lee from a $1.5 million spending limb. the top nine candidates who did take public funds get a break now too. >> this again will now take the race from one that was pretty expensive to one that will be probably enormously expensive. >> reporter: campaign finance records show that president david chiu and dennis herr era lead the race with cash. herr era has raised $2.5 million. chiu's campaign has raised $1.2 million. county assessor and mayoral candidate ping says he understands lee's decision not to take public funds, but -- >> we're going to have this public money to attack each other, which defeats the reason for the funds. >> david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. a battle between republicans and democrats is being waged in a recall election in wisconsin tonight. control of the wisconsin state senate hangs in the balance. the recall is in reaction to republican efforts to strip public employees of most of their union rights which drew national attention back in march. six seats are up for grabs tonight. at this hour republicans have kept three seats and democrats have picked up two. a milwaukee seat is undecided. there was another election last week and votes for two more seats are next week. before the recall republicans held a 19-14 majority in the wisconsin state senate. coastal fog is developing right now, coming up the areas that will have fog for the morning commute and the areas that will warm to the 90-degree mark by tomorrow afternoon. only on 2, hidden cameras at a clothing store in the great mall of milpitas. wait till you see what was being recorded. you feel a great sense of pride but at the same time a great sense of sadness. >> war hits home in a tight nit community. how friends want to remember a navy seal killed overseas. only on 2, a store manager accused of secretly recording women inside a bathroom and dressing room at a popular south bay mall. lloyd lacuesta attained some of the video and tells us why police believe there could be other victims at other malls. >> reporter: the finish line clothing store at the mall in milpitas has been hit with a lawsuit for invasion of privacy. the manager is accused of installing a tiny camera like this one in the employees bathroom and customer dressing room. he's seen here adjusting one of the hidden cameras. tonight we talked by phone to his ex-girlfriend who says she discovered videos downloaded on their computer. >> he's able to video tape the female employees employees going to the bathroom. >> reporter: the girlfriend doesn't want to be identified. >> he said he had some issues and is trying to work them out. >> it does involve young women changing in the customer change room and using the restroom. >> reporter: joshua esren represents five former or current finish line employees who say they are suffering from emotional disstress for unknowingly being video taped by the hidden cameras. they were all 16 to 19 years years old when this happened a year ago. finish line released a statement saying it is cooperating with law enforcement and quote, the allegations in this lawsuit describe a situation isolated to an exemployee who's alleged actions were neither known to nor in any way condoned by the company. myer was never arrested or charged, he's believed to have left the state. his ex-girlfriend wants him brought to justice. >> these poor girls are violated. >> reporter: myer was a regional manager for two other finish line stores. police will only say they are investigating to see if there are other possible victims. live in milpitas, lloyd lacuesta. fire crews in redwood city say thieves are stealing an important piece of equipment that helps them fight fires. they say over the last couple of weeks they've discovered that thieves have made up with the brass caps on what are called fire department connectors. in all some 15 businesses and apartment complexes have been hit. >> we can come in, connect to this so we're able to pump water into the building. well if the caps and the swivel have been stolen, we cannot connect to them. >> reporter: firefighters believe the thieves are selling the brass and metal devices to recyclers. firefighters are also advising building managers to use theft resistant safety caps to keep thieves away. california is taking in a less money than expected. state controller john chung says revenue for july was down 10% from budget projections totalling 500,000 less. if the trend continues, schools, colleges and social services could be hurt because the state might have to make $2.5 billion in cuts. california's public pension fund the largest in the country has been hit hard in the latest stock market plunge. calpers the california public employees the áf system lost $18 billion since -- employees system lost 18 billion since july 1st. president obama went to dover air force base. the pentagon pointed to the catastrophic nature of the attack. one of the navy seals killed in that mission came from the bay area. >> reporter: the war in afghanistan has struck home jesse pitman's home willis. flags are now flying at half staff at calfire where pitman spent two summers as a firefighters before joining the military. >> reporter: chris holtz is a firefighter in willits. he remembers when pittman told him he wanted to become a navy seal. >> i said you've been watching too much television. you know how hard it is to to do. and he said yeah but i really want to do it. >> reporter: the seals were on a mission to help troops in trouble on the ground. his friend remembers the last time they saw each other. >> he was a changed man, he was still jesse, he was still fun. but he was very mature. very straightforward. >> reporter: before becoming a seal, pitman fought fires, wildfires. coworkers remember him hopping on an engine heading to a call. >> almost before it got out on the highway, the engine got out there, he was asleep. and as soon as he got to the incident he was wide awake and the hardest working fellow there. >> reporter: word of what happened is still spreading. the war in afghanistan no longer seems light years away. >> it's right here around the corner. so you know, you don't really think about it until it probably hits this close to home. >> you feel a sense of pride and at the same time a tremendous amount of sadness. >> reporter: willits firefighters say they would like to see a monument made for jesse pittman not far from the fire station. two other navy seals killed in afghanistan over the weekend had ties to the bay area. 29-year-old derrek benson grew up in napa county. and 36-year-old kevin houston lived in san jose until fifth grade. today houston's aunt called him dynamic and caring. >> the last time i really talked to him is when i had lost my husband. and he was trying to reassure me because my husband died on september 11, so he said you know there are no coincidences. god needed him up there to take care of -- you know he just connected it because this was like two years later. >> his family says houston had dreamed of becoming a navy seal since childhood. he leaves leaves behind his wife and three children. we currently have mostly clear skies across most of the bay area right now. but the fog will be regrouping overnight and it should be right around the cost and right around the bay.overnight lows tomorrow morning, most areas starting out the day in the low to mid-50s. santa rosa one of the cooler spots at 50 degrees. the fog and drizzle concentrated coast side tomorrow morning into the afternoon hours, partly cloudy skies, temperatures to the low to mid-50s. around the bay patchy fog and increasing sunshine. from the 70s to right around 80 degrees. plenty of sunshine for the inland neighbors and the hot side upper 80s to 90 degrees. coming up i'll highlight the neighborhoods that will be coming up to the lower 90s. i will break down the timing of our next cooling trend. looks like the old air force station in sunny vale is going to be reworked to house an education center. the foothills dianza education department has picked that facility. it's expected to offer a variety of classes from web development to paramedic training. best of all here the district is getting the land from the federal government for free. they've been married 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