new kitchen and save 40 percent on custom countertops until november 28th at ikea. the life improvement store. it's a ktvu exclusive, charges of unlicensed gambling halls operating in bay area strip malls. good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. critics say they are actually front for illegal internet gambling and the illegal gambling is taking place right

under the noses of police. ken wayne has the story. >> reporter: there is no sign across the street on east 14th street indicating what's inside that store front. we went over there today to find out if it's an illegal gambling operation but had problems finding anyone who would talk about it. >> are you aware if this is legal or illegal gambling in here. >> you have to go. >> reporter: we saw several people sitting in front of monitors playing games. those coming out wouldn't tell us what kind of games. >> you don't know what's going on in there? were you gambling. >> are you gambling in there? >> no. >> what are you doing? >> minding my own business. >> they're afraid. they don't want to be on the news, they know they're breaking the law. >> reporter: k. king runs a small charity and counts on bingo money to run her charity.

>> they have a variety of names for them. but those themselves are illegal. >> reporter: richard post says he became aware of the problem as a business owner, the order is dated almost three weeks ago but the operation is still going strong. >> they are in vallejo and in concord and they have two very large ones here in rich phopd. >> reporter: there have been busts here in san diego and stockton. one woman said she hasn't considered if the gambling was illegal until we asked her. >> does it look like bingo. >> no. >> reporter: does it look like a slot machine? >> like a slot machine, yes. >> reporter: if you have an illegal operation on your property wouldn't you want to know that or is that okay with you? >> no, sir, no, sir. >> reporter: we got a phone call from the man who says he

ran that internet cafe across the street. he says he will probably talk to us tomorrow to try to clear this up. and also the oakland city council is expected to hear something about this at their hearing tonight. we visited a second location this afternoon located at foothills square on the mcarthur boulevard. but security asked our crew to leave. >> you have to leave, period. >> reporter: like durant square there's a bi in, go parlor at fool hills square. security would not allow our camera near the operation but critics tell us this is also a front for internet gambling. illegal brief filed by lawyers is providing a glimpse when an appeal courts holds a hearing in october.

supporters of prop eight wanted to deny same-sex couples marriage. prop eight supporters were scheduled to own brief to the court by tonight. meantime a federal judge could rule tomorrow on whether to keep her injunction in place running the military's don't ask don't tell policy. the justice department wants the policy prohibiting gays from serving openly to continue to be in place. today federal judge virginia phillips told her courtroom that she is inclined to let the injunction in place. caltrans says crews need to put anti corrosive paint. an overturned tanker caused a mass i have traffic jam this evening for computerrers

heading south out of san jose. the trains blocked two lanes out of three lanes. the truck was carrying wax and was eventually removed. lloyd lacuesta is on the scene. >> reporter: seven hours after this tanker truck overturned as you can see it is still here and still causing traffic slow downs. right now workers as you can see are trying to unload the overturned riggs 43,000-pound load of liquid wax into that other tanker truck. meanwhile there are three to four southbound lane opens. for several hours, traffic was restricted to one lane and that caused a massive back up that stretched for 6 miles in san jose. >> i left work at 3:30.

what's it now 6:45? yeah it's the commute from hell. >> reporter: it all started when this big wig flipped on its side. the driver of one point complained of back and neck pain the chp says that the driver was tested for alcohol and drugs and seemed fine. >> cph thought it was unsane if they up right the rig they it would rupture and burst. then we would have a bigger hazmat issue. >> dozens of drivers simply sat in their cars going nowhere for hours. many drivers expressed relief when they finally got past the accident. >> what's the biggest part when you're stuck like this?

>> i had to go to the bathroom. so i stopped here right away. >> maybe cut me off because i wanted to get off, my baby, my baby, i have to get off the road. that's just life sometimes, you just have to deal with it. the highway patrol says this clean up could take all night. live near morgan hill. lloyd lacuesta. a shooting at a bank atm over the weekend was not a random attack. it happened shortly after 11:00 sunday morning. a man walked up and shot another man. the shooter didn't say anything and didn't take any money. police now say the 28-year-old victim was targeted due to a personal grudge. police say they hope to identify a suspect soon. san francisco police have identified a man arrested for starting a weekend fire.

the fire on livingworth street. firefighters say he started the fire in his own room. no word yet on a motive. in san carlos tonight, city council are debating whether to keep their police department intact. >> reporter: we're at station 16 which a consultant says could easily be shared by san carlos, calfire and neighbors wellwood city. but it's not an idea catching fire with residents. san carlos averages about one structure fire a month. but spend some $6 million

annually on fire protection. >> we get 911 calls. >> reporter: four stations and 40 firefighters shared with belmont is insufficient, especially when most of their calls are medical not fire. >> i think there's a tremendous need for more emergency medical services and we have a lot of paramedics in the fire department. i think their business will be booming. >> the city coin sill tonight got an analysis recommending it consider four merging possibilities. in two weeks, san carlos police will share -- calfire has said it would do the same. observe san carlos firefighters with no job loss. >> i don't think it matters as long as the service is there. as long as they can answer the call. >> the fire department was there, they save midlife. >> reporter: other who is called 911 don't want to mess

with the system. >> that would be another example of giving up local control, same thing we did with the police department. i just don't think it's a good thing. >> you don't fire your car insurance because you didn't have an accident in the year. tonight's presentation was just the first step. this winter the council expects to start looking at the proposal to dissolve san carlos fire this time last year. debra villalo. giants and phils at at&t park. they're 1-1 but could fog affect tomorrow's game? >> a married man against a single woman. a race about more than you

downtown san francisco should be hopping on thursday afternoon. president obama is slated to come to town. he's due to arrive just a short time before a giants play off game begins at at&t park. the president is scheduled to

help earn money for camela harris. the president is scheduled to arrive at 4:00 p.m. the giants play off game starts at 4:30. police say they are prepared for all contingencies. >> we partners with nummi and the fire department to safeguard that folks have a safe time at the game. >> reporter: president obama is expected to stay over in san francisco thursday night then leave on friday for more campaigning in southern california. news about the state attorney's general race has been drowned down by coverage of higher profile campaigns. but that might be changing. both can dates, steve cooley and harris recently started their advertising campaigns. political editor randy shandobil has a special report. >>the two candidates for

district attorney. pamela harris versus steve cooley. cooley was raised in a law enforcement family. harris was raised by two activists who met in brooklyn. >> the heros for me were the lawyers. >> reporter: lawyers who turned to protests into actual law. before being elected to san francisco's d.a. harris was a deputy da for alameda county. sh he says she became a prosecutor not just to put away street thugs but to personalize corporate thugs and polluters as well. >> you go into certain communities that happen to be socially economically poor communities and have been traditionally a dumping ground and you will see babies growing up in those communities with unacceptable rates of asthma.

>> reporter: cooley said he would prosecute environmental laws too. >> do you support ab32. >> i will work to implement it because it's a law and it dictates. >> it doesn't sound passionate. >> i don't need to believe in it, it's the law. >> reporter: cooley says he's tougher on street crime than harris. as opposed to harris who she in her six years as d.a has never asked for the death penalty. >> i am personally opposed to the death penalty but i will follow the law. my position on the death penalty is the same as four of the last attorney generals in california. >> reporter: but harris has passed up classical death

penalty. >> she announced it before officer isaac espinosa's funeral. >> when she says that she would enforce it it sounds like you don't believe her. >> i don't believe her. i don't believe her. the past is the best predicter of the future. she ruled it out. >> i will not seed my law enforcement and prime fighting credentials to anyone. i'm a career prosecutor. i have personally prosecuted homicide cases, i've personally prosecuted gang cases. so far the attorney general's race hasn't seemed to capture voters attention. but here's something to keep in mind, since 1971 every attorney general has eventually run for

california governor. political editor randy shandobil, ktvu news. the deadline to register for attorney generally is almost over today. the people organizing the drive says off year elections like this one generally don't draw a lot of new voters. california has more than 16 million registered voters at all. some voters were already casting their ballots today. voters are going to have to do ranked choice voting. they are asked to rank their first, second and third choice candidates. >> this allows voters to express their top three choices. there isn't a need for a second election. alameda county has spent 1

1-1/2 million in the process. north carolina based bank of america says it plans to ease more than 100,000 homes awaiting foreclosure. the nation's largest bank starts foreclosure on october 2 after accusations bank employees signed off on foreclosures without proper review -- october 22 after accusations. california is one of those states. cupertino based apple says their wagings rose. it is sold about 14 million iphones and more than 4 million i pad. apple's reports earnings of $4.3 billion lieu past wall street expectations, still apple price stock fell in after hours training. apple dropped 6% to $298 a

share in the after hours session. the broader market climbed higher today. the dow was up 80 pounds. the nasdaq added 11 points. the banking sector was a catalyst with raising halt that consumer ballot sheets may be improving. san francisco is gearing up against tomorrow's big game against philadelphia philly. the city of francisco is selling all kind of giant game day. >> we were ready to go. the only problem is we don't have any tickets. a quick check online, tomorrow's game three is sold out. however some people might be willing to sell their ticket for up to $2,500 a piece. fans going to at&t park

will have better access to taxi cabs after the game. they decided to open a new tax kirk stand. i stand. the stand is only in place for game three. how quickly the seasons change. we had rain yesterday. your forecast highs tomorrow they're coming up 5 degrees. it's going to be a warmer day tomorrow. less coastal fog. as the kids head off to school,

you head to work it's jacket time. concord 51, now by february standards it's not cold but that's very chill for this time of year. tomorrow mostly sunny and warmer. bp today said it is waving the cap for what it will sell for that the broken oil cap. lawers for some gulf residents and businesses say they are relieved. he is accused of raping a neighbor, what a suspect arrested at an east bay apartment complex insisted ñxq0

the man arrested for rape at the park regency apartment in walnut creek today insisted he had done nothing wrong and that she was not guilty. prosecutors say the charges were based on dna evidence. authorities are still looking for the person who raped a woman on october 2nd at that same complex. almost 10 years after her death, jury selection began in the murder trial of the man accused of killing chaundra leavy. prosecutors say juan dike grabbed the government intern as she jogged in a washington, d.c. park in 2001. leavy was from modesto and linked to gary condit. the scandal ended his political career. they will likely call the former congressman to testify. there is word tonight mexican police have arrested a

man in connection with the death of a former mar i n county man. according to a family friend, 46-year-old lane gilbert was found dead friday in a home he owned south of city of uajaka. the emeryville city council may get an ear full tomorrow night from residents who are not happy about plans of a big warehouse to serve ikea. ikea says it plans to truck material into the building between 7:00 in the morning and 10:00 at night. people who live in the area are concerned over the traffic and noise. for the first time in almost 25 years police say oakland was free of those

famous side show gathering this summer. sergeant bats made the announcement tonightful city leaders met to discuss alternatives to side shows. some teens asked for more services to keep them stay off the streets. >> we need more organized actives. we need organized activities so that when we leave here on friday night we don't want to go home, we want to go to an organized activity. >> reporter: police say they used extra patrol. over the years there have been a number of people kill. former nfl star line banger junior seau went down about 100 feet in his cadillac suv.

police say he told them he fell asleep. saeu had just been arrest

a malfunction that has become causing delays on nummi metro all day is still not fixed tonight. it happened during the height of this morning's commute. but now it threatens tomorrow commute as well. heather holmes talked to nummi officials and is leave with an update. >> reporter: here at west portal, nummi has been providing bus shuttles to

supplement service as this day long signal situation stretches far into the night. >> over here. >> reporter: there was confusion and added frustration during tonight's commute. >> i decline, we have slowly -- >> reporter: as nummi tried to fix a signal snafoo that had trains crawling. >> this is the traffic signal that's not reporting to central control. so we are forced to run in manual mode. the problem at the earthquake mbarcadero -- embarcadero program surfaced this morning. >> on a normal day i could get there in 30 minutes.

the first leg of jeff christopher's first leg hope was seriously delay. >> i just lost a half hour in my commute jr. in an effort to try to improve the circumstantiality, agency officials say the move had left to 50% fewer incidents. >> when you're running 7,000 rides a day, there's going to be bumps. an agent cy spokesman told me that crews have identified the problem and will work through the night to try to fix it -- the agency spokesperson told me. check in with. certain bay area transit systems are reporting an increase in ridership which may mean the economy is starting to

pick up the pace. bart says it's seen an increase of 20,000 passengers in the last two months. bart sees itself as an indication tor of the economy. right now people don't feel like there are jobs out there. but the reality is if we continue to be the ár a leading imty indicator which we still are, we should start to see ridership go way up. sam tran and nummi are stilling a large -- back on july or rather january 29th 2008, margarita mojica was crushed to death .

this is the fifth recall involving an unpleasant odor and the 13th recall for johnson and johnson this year. -- to improve or he could get shut down for good. the white county egg company recalled hundreds of millions of the dollars when two 16 cases of salmonella. the company has not been allowed to sell eggs since the outbreak. the, if,fda says it plans to inspection the country. and we're dealing with one of the touchest systems up

close. this week's weather may dictate whether it's time to keep their cost or mark their losses. at windsor oaks vineyard. wine makers and putting their cap back. they are trying to decide whether to pick what's left of the garbage, ahead of rain predicted later this week. >> with you going to be pold and predict that we're going to get a lot of rain. >> another week on the vine and they could be perfect. but is the wait worth the risk? >> no hair holes. >> you walk fast. >> julie lombare says says it's not wide to back up 30%. the last little rain, that was nothing on sunday. but if there's another storm

rolling in, it's time to go. not according to wine makers who say unless you're buying rare wines you probably won't notice much of a difference when these grapes go into bottles. students got a pat in the back by president obama for spending hours helping their community. ceremonies honored students who received the president's volunteer service award. in all, 34 students completed more than $5,400. the protest, soy lens and a fuel service. main a moan mum tupl

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meg whitman's finances once again took center stage while receiving the endorsement of islander politicians. brown said that she is out to help háes by wanting to cut capital gains process.

>> she wants to enrich herself and her contributors skr-z anyone in the right mind would not spend $145 to save 15 million khrars. >> reporter: whitman says her proposals would create jobs. a recent poll shows the race is close with brown slightly ahead. sarah palin picked off the tea party express today with reed and the speaker of the house. we don't work for you anymore mr. reed, enjoy your retirement. nancy pelosi, you are fired. >> reporter: palin also attacked republicans who have -t no come out in support of the tea party candidates and called on them to quote man up. the tea party express is a two week cross country bus tour.

researchers looked for figures for 2007 and took into accounted food and lodging. in the back of the plane suggest the marshalls would be more useful out of first class. the air marshals objected to that change. blockades of refinery are causing a fuel shortage. long lines formed at gas stations that still had gas

while others were being closed. in vietnam, flooding has cost at least 30 deaths. a supertyphoon is still under way. that typhoon had gusts of 120- miles-per-hour. one of the pieces of rock that the second miner brought up to the surface and handed out to the rescuers was given to the queen of england. and starbucks is offering more than just it's coffee, beer and wine. it will be offering it at just

one location. the coffee chain has been struggling recently due to the recession and more people are turning to duncan donuts and mcdonalds for their coffee which is cheaper. and type out how

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one quick correction right now, the new starbucks concept store is not in washington, d.c., it's actually in washington state up in seattle. that new starbucks concept store. the facebook network boasts hundreds of millions of the users. but tonight there's a concern. millions of the users

information is being shared with dozens. >> the user i.d. is like a key. it's a specific random number. it's a number that's unique to each account. with that key people can go to facebook and find out more information about the user behind it. >> reporter: he says the amount of information third parties can see when they have your user i.d. depends on your privacy settings. if your photo or sta pus update are limited to your friend, advertisers can't see your input. but there's also information on your brace that can be immediate private. it can be used for nfl purposes. aisle not saying that this is what the advertising segments had wished to. mike vernel speaks for facebook in a statement released last night he defends

the company saying, quote, knowledge of a user id does not enable anyone to increase private user information. in the meantime, facebook users should check their applications. >> turn off the ones you are no longer using, that you don't feel a need for you anymore. >> reporter: the electronic frontier foundation has a step by step instruction video on their website. ktvu.com has information on how to change your policy status. first there was the

stimulus checks and then it went up. they found that many of the jobs were being replaced by low tkpwraed jobs. >> the stimulate the idea than to just make sure that people get a short work for the work they do. >> business antists say to not say if growth they need to invest in changes. the crystal cathedral church has filed for bankruptcy. the reverend robert shuler started the church. church leaders blame the current economy for a sharp

fall out in donations. stanford university and new american media recently released their first san francisco distress index. it looks at 11 different indicators ranging from foreclosure to retailed administration, this time around fewer people enrolled in the cal works program. and just tracking cool temperatures right now in the north bay. when you wake up tomorrow morning we will be chilly. it's 50 degrees right now in santa rosa. 50 in napa, easily into the mid- 40s tonight. pretty cool out there. one of the cooler nights we're going to see or we have seen so far this season. forecast tomorrow, we've got nice conditions, fog should clear at the coast, mostly sunny warmer tomorrow. that's your tuesday. wednesday looking good too. it's not going to be quite as

warm. wednesday coming down a little bit, big changes thursday and friday with more clouds cooler weather the chance of sprinkles thursday night into friday. big baseball day comes up for the bay area. i mentioned this in our broadcast september. good weather for the games and the rest of the country to see how beautiful the bay area is. you're going to see beautiful visibility and mild temperatures. this is why it's warmer tomorrow. the winds go offshore, temperatures come up. fog goes away. you think, okay this is a fire danger set up. it is but there's not enough heat and there's not enough wind so we're not looking at flag warnings. if that chance of sprinkles on thursday night into friday, very light chance of sprinkles transpires. that's the main impact from

this for 80% of us. we'll watch it. basically we just know it's going to be cooler out there. the forecast highs tomorrow, you're looking at oranges where you would expect reds. last week we saw reds, 90s. temperatures cooling down. the days are definitely getting shorter. you are noticing it as we get toward the solstice. it's forecast high in san jose 68 degrees at lunchtime. mid-70s for the santa clara valley. you have good air quality tomorrow as well. 70 in richmond, forecast highs not bad about where they should be for this time of year. maybe a little bit warmer. tomorrow is the warmest day of the week and temperatures trend down as we roll into your bay area thursday and friday. 74 in minlow park. be ware that things look a little unset -ld there and we'll track it for you.

frank and julie, you've been here a long time it's beautiful in the bay area, and those cameras from the network are going to pick it up. >> a lot of people are going to be seeing how nice it is. the city of oakland is getting ready for the rainy season. sandbags are available for residents free of charge. during the last few

mark is off tonight, joe is here, after that first game between the yankees and the rangers, kind of looked like the yankees were going to take it to them but not so fast. >> the rangers have bounced back. the rangers have gone a leg up in their american league championship sere reu, yankee stadium, besides for the first time in the series as as he did in texas, josh hamilton got the rangers up to a head start. doesn't seem like an unsurmountable lead at the type. you have to consider the way cliff lee was pitching for the

rangers. just ask mark teixeria. lee struck out 13 in eight shut out innings. he didn't need it but he got some padding in the ninth. benjie molina as the rangers pile it on 8-0. game four is tomorrow night. no rest for the giants and phillies tomorrow. pitching match up for tomorrow's game three is mat cain. runs will probably be scarce. >> you get used to pitching in tight ball games like this. cole is going to go out there and throw the ball well. you get used to pitching in close ball games and understanding that when the big pressure parts of the game kind of come about. >> things respect going to be easy in life and especially in

-t game of baseball. i think that's kind of what it's done. the afc race gets tight. vince young to brit. young was knocked out of the game as was jacksonville starter gerard. when you have chris johnson the quarterbacking you can take a backseat. he went for 111 in all. they are tied for first with houston and indianapolis. 49ers and the rangers in evaluation mode today in san francisco. and michael crabtree scored the first touchdown.

one on an athletic move by lawson. not what they invisioned but it's the start. >> we can't let down. we have one win and e ten games to play so we have to carry it home. the warriors preseason winner, david lee picked up fourth double-double of the season. play off baseball in the afternoon in san francisco tomorrow. >> a great day. >> doesn't get better than that does it? >> no, it's going to be a great game. let's hope they can get one of those w's they're speaking of. >> so what do they have to do? i think they have a quarterback rating of 10. >> as poorly they played, you may have to think about kyle bolder. that might be a good move. >> thank you, joe.

>> sure. be sure to join us tomorrow, they'll have the latest on the toll bridge. thanks so much for joining us. have a good evening everyone. >> good night.