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factory will soon say goodbye to sonoma county. >> nice to have you with me on this wednesday night. i'm heather holmes, our tom vacar tells us the mexican packaged food company plans to move production out of state, taking with it several jobs for almost a half century, la tortilla factory has been a stable, growing and beloved santa rosa business, which rose from a tiny restaurant and tortilla factory serving local stores to a national brand of packaged mexican foods. >> turning out 1.2 million tortillas a day will selling tortillas across the nation you know, 50 states, canada, some times puerto rico, we've been in hawaii, we sell our tortillas in japan through distributors last may, a ktvu zip trip featured the company, which has employed as many as 300 workers. what we learned was this company has a culture of cooperation and mutual respect. our people, you know, we're an amazing family.

>> we have employees who have been with us for a long time. you know, 15, 20 years, 30 years. and i think that's the ingredient number one that makes a big difference. >> we call ourselves a family of employees because we treat each other like we're family. >> founded in 1977 by marion jose tamayo, the tamayo family sold most of their interest in the firm to flagship food group that will move production to mount ridge, kansas, 40 miles north of wichita, a tiny town with less than 5% of its population. hispanic flagship, which has other california businesses, says moving it to kansas safeguards la tortillas ability to make the best tortillas at fair prices in expanded facilities to serve existing and new customers. though some employees may be able to work remotely, most will be given severance packages based on seniority. but the family of employees will be gone . >> we have a love for each other

and a passion for the process where it's just a very supportive environment. we all want to see each other succeed and we all want to see the company succeed. if this wasn't enough for the north bay, another internationally known original from petaluma, camelback will. >> they'll be moving as well. tom vacar, ktvu, fox two news. >> an outbreak work on of an illness on board a cruise ship to tell you about that arrived in san francisco yesterday. in fact, that that situation is now being investigated by the cdc. cunard says that 128 out of 1800 passengers on the queen victoria were sick with symptoms including diarrhea and vomiting. 25 crew members also reported being ill. the cruise line says it's increased cleaning and disinfection, and isolated sick passengers and crew. that ship is set to depart san francisco tonight. a new at 730. dozens of iphones stolen right from an apple store in the east bay. want to show you now some video

from the bay street location in emeryville. you can see here the man in all black. he grabs the phones from the display tables, puts them into his pockets, and then he walks out of the store. he also walks past an emeryville police car before getting into a hyundai elantra. now we have since learned, though, that there was not an officer in that patrol vehicle at the time. now we go to novato tonight where a suspect has been arrested for allegedly burglarizing two businesses at a shopping center. 42 year old paul amy junior was arrested on two counts of burglary, identity theft and providing a false name to police . the stolen items were found after san pablo police pulled over the stolen car that amy was driving. he was booked into the marin county jail and the stolen items were returned to those businesses. well, nearly one year after former oakland police chief leronne armstrong was fired, he is fighting back in court. he filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city and mayor shengtao today. armstrong was first placed on paid administrative leave last january over allegations that he

mishandled some internal investigations into officer misconduct. mayor shengtao fired armstrong a month later on february 15th, nearly one year ago in september, an independent state report exonerated armstrong of any wrongdoing that his termination was based upon, and then in december, mayor tao rejected a short list of candidates for police chief, which included armstrong. our crime reporter henry lee tonight explains what's at stake with this lawsuit. >> former oakland police chief laurent armstrong is suing the city and mayor sheng tao, saying he was wrongfully fired. it's important that we filed this lawsuit to restore the chief's reputation. billy winter, an attorney for armstrong, says the lawsuit is bolstered by the fact that a neutral arbitrator ruled in the ex-top cop's favor, finding that the city should not have fired him. >> we believe that the case we brought has merit that the hearing officer has, um, confirmed that the criticisms against the chief were

unfounded. >> the suit says he was fired because he had the courage to speak out about alleged misconduct by the federal monitor, robert warshaw. warshaw had commissioned a report that said the chief failed to hold a sergeant responsive for two alleged cover ups. i caught up with the mayor, who referred me to the city attorney's office, but i asked her about the search for the next chief. >> i believe that, you know, getting having a chief just be named chief is not good enough. we need a chief who understands the intricacies of being under the federal oversight. >> in his lawsuit, armstrong said he led opd to the closest it's ever been to ending federal oversight, and that tao bowed to pressure from the monitor. armstrong accused warshaw repeatedly finding problems with the department in order to benefit financially and stay in his role, the suit says, in part, as long as warshaw opines that opd has leadership problems, warshaw can argue his continued supervision at great expense to oakland and its taxpayers remains necessary. the . consent process in oakland,

not everywhere, but in oakland, was adulterating reform, and kirkpatrick, armstrong's predecessor as chief, received $1.5 million from oakland after a jury found. she was wrongfully fired. you've seen a whole lot of police chiefs tumble under him. and i think that federal judge needs to take a very close look at his federal monitor. the federal judge has said he has full confidence in the monitor. the monitor does not comment to the media. the city declined to comment on the lawsuit, saying they have yet to be served and the oakland police commission hopes to finalize its shortlist for police chief by march. henry lee ktvu, fox two news and from oakland. >> now we go to san jose, where police there say two suspects. suspects are in custody, who they believe are responsible for at least 70 organized retail thefts. san jose residents jaime flores and thomas sapien oso are accused of stealing from big name retailers nike store surveillance footage appears to show the men leaving with

armfuls of merchandise. they also allegedly stole from target. best buy, rei and others. investigators say they're connecting these two men to dozens of cases from last july to january of this year, our san jose police department's organized retail theft detail has been tremendous. >> our detectives have been working around the clock utilizing our field resources forces, investigative resources, as well as technology to make sure that we combat these organized retail thefts. >> the loss from the thefts totals more than $75,000. flores was arrested back on december 16th for grand theft at westgate mall. espinosa was already in custody for an unrelated incident on january 31st, when detectives obtained a warrant for his arrest. pg and e says some customers may not have their power back on until this weekend. as crews continue to work to repair damage from sunday's big storm. there is some progress, though, to report this evening. total outages are now down to about 21,000. about

13,000 are in the north bay. more than 7000 customers are without power in the peninsula and on the peninsula, and in the south bay and in san rafael. this afternoon, a utility vice president said. more than 5000 crews are out there working to restore power. >> and barry weather, still tracking a few scattered showers out there for this evening. there is a chance in your thursday forecast, but we are heading into a much needed drying trend. we'll have your forecast coming up and super. bowl festivities are in full swing in las vegas and 49ers fans are starting to arrive. >> later tonight we introduce you to some of the faithful lucky enough to win tickets to the big game and celebrate black history month. we'll tell you about today's art gallery walk in san francisco, paying tribute to the city's artists of color. we'll be right back

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state 80 on all vehicles that don't have four wheel drive or snow tires between kingvale and placer county to the donner lake interchange. chain controls are also required on highway 50 from placerville to riverton in el dorado county. now, back here in the bay area, after a brief break from the rain, people grabbed their umbrellas once again today, this is what it looked like along market street in downtown san francisco this morning. there was rain, heavy at times, and then also kind of lightened up. i want to bring in our meteorologist, mark tamayo. and mark, we're going to talk a little bit about that. what the conditions are like here. but

before we do that let's talk a little bit about the sierra because boy they are just getting a lot of snow. >> it has been quite it was kind of bleak right about a week ago. and then all of a sudden these storms piled up. so yeah, they have been picking up the snowfall they need. and you can see these accumulations pretty impressive. as you can see coming up 4 to 5ft of snow over the past seven days. so that's a lot of snowfall to report. so it's kind of helping to save the ski. the ski season up there. you can see the radar imagery of course a lot of bands moving over the bay area and some snow showers out toward the sierra. now rainfall accumulations here. we're not talking about 4 to 5 to six inches like a few days ago, but we picked up a pretty good downpour earlier today. so as a result these we picked up most of these totals within a short amount of time. so that's why you probably notice some pretty good downpours and maybe even some hail or some thunderstorms. here's a radar imagery right now. some coverage out towards solano county. so we're not completely dry just yet. a few lingering scattered showers out there closer to pacifica as you can see with the live sweep trying to show you

the current pattern out there, it's cold enough that snow levels have dropped around 3500 or 4000ft. we've had a dusting of snow out toward mount hamilton. also some gusty winds. take a look at oakland airport right now, gusting to nearly 40 miles an hour. sfo so a stronger wind there gusting to 32, and half moon bay winds fairly strong as well, gusting to 30. in fact, our cameras right on cue shaking around a bit. so we do have some breezy conditions this evening. it's a cool pattern out there as well. santa rosa 46 degrees, concord 49 and san jose. checking in 50 degrees. cold enough for tomorrow morning. we do have a frost advisory for the north bay valley, so the coolest locations starting out tomorrow morning in the 30s. it should be dry, partly cloudy skies, some chilly conditions for tomorrow morning. and of course we're watching the weather closely out toward las vegas. it looks like a quiet weather pattern. thursday, friday and into saturday, and it looks like great weather for the super bowl on sunday with mostly sunny skies. so this area of low pressure, this will be moving out to the east tomorrow. we still have a chance of a shower

tomorrow afternoon, and it looks like this area of high pressure wants to build in by the weekend. and as a result, we're going to clear things out nicely. so here is our forecast model tomorrow morning, 10:00. and then into the afternoon hours. the possibility of a few scattered showers quickly moving across the area. and then after that we will have more sunshine by friday and into the weekend. highs for tomorrow will be in the 50s, so a cool pattern. it wants to stick around that cool wind as well. a chilly start friday morning. fair skies on saturday. partly sunny skies into sunday. looks like temperatures warm up a little bit into the weekend, so a great chance to get outside for the upcoming weekend. >> heather. okay mark, thank you. well, as you can probably. imagine, super bowl tickets cost a fortune. later tonight, though, we're going to introduce you to the two 49ers fans chosen at random to attend the big game and today, well, it is national girls and women in sports day coming up after the break, we're going to hear from cal women's basketball coach about the future. of the game. she's got

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kind of complacent in and not really being able to reap the benefit of the whole picture of what san francisco could be for us. >> malik seneferu is known for incorporating contemporary themes with colorful, abstract shapes and traditional african prints, as well. a special day for more than 50 people who became u.s. citizens in san francisco today, including a familiar face here on ktvu. our colleague andre senior took the oath during the ceremony this morning with his mother right there by his side. this was the culmination of a long journey for andre, who said he spent the last 30 years working to gain citizenship. we sat down with andre and his mother earlier today on the four. she just happened to be in town visiting when andre got the citizenship paperwork in the mail. >> i put the mail on the counter and i said, you have mail? and he looked at it and he said, oh, snap, look at look at this, mommy. and i said, what? and he said, naturalization. and i'm

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haven't caught up with some of them, including a brother and sister lucky enough to win free tickets. >> 40 niner fan philip ramos of turlock can't quite believe his luck. he and his sister won free tickets to the super bowl in las vegas through the roof. >> i'm shocked. i'm grateful. um and it's just like now i just can't wait for it to hurry up and get here. >> take a look who's super bowl tickets. >> more, you two. >> it was a ticketmaster promotion. olivia culpo, fiance of 49ers running back christian mccaffrey, shows the pair at random. surprised them with the tickets and then posted the video to instagram. >> if you saw my face in the video, it was very shocking. my brother started crying and we just couldn't believe it.

>> ramos is an army veteran who did two tours in iraq and although he was desperate to go to the big game, tickets seemed out of reach. >> i'm on a fixed income and i probably wouldn't be able to afford the tickets anyway, so to be gifted this is amazing. with ticket prices anywhere from 5000 to $20,000, even the 408 faithful had to think twice. >> but joe iturralde, who goes to nearly every game, was determined not to miss this one. >> i thought it was expensive in miami four years ago, and this. whoa. it's just, you know. but this is what we save up for. this is what we, you know, become season ticket holders for this is the ultimate goal. >> sean spanic is going to he says the game is all he can think about. he's hoping this rematch with the chiefs will mean 49ers redemption. >> i've been having sleepless nights, just like the players, to be honest with you. >> for philip ramos, there are souvenirs to purchase and there's a new skill to learn. instagram he wants to make sure he documents every bit of this trip so now i got to figure it

out. >> i got a lot of people going, we're going to live through your eyes. so yeah, so it's like, i got to at least not let them down. >> a lot of fans we spoke to are already hitting the road. however, philip ramos and his sister still have a few days to gear up and finish packing their stuff. they fly out to vegas for this experience of a lifetime. on saturday in santa clara and ruben ktvu, fox two news. >> yeah, and i hope philip and his sister have a great time. all right. super bowl sunday is now just four days away, but the excitement in vegas already begun. the ultimate nfl theme park is officially open. it did so today. the super bowl experience is taking over mandalay bay south convention center. it's an annual immersive football festival for nfl fans. you can take a selfie with super bowl rings. even the vince lombardi trophy, which was delivered today by 49ers hall of fame wide receiver jerry rice. >> you know what guys? i'm going to be honest with you. it's not about me. it's about those players. right now. and you know

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