hundreds of people pack a school board meeting to learn if schools in their community will stay open or be closed. good evening everyone i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. tonight is the night the council is expected to decide which schools it will close to bridge a budget gap.

healther holmes joins us now from the meeting in concord. >> reporter: this meeting was moved to this high school gym, as you can see some people have left but at the height of this meeting more than 450 people were gathered here. now right now they are mauling over the four different options. just minutes ago we learned that option number three has been removed. right now they're discussing closing homebrook elementary and homebrook middle school. most folks know schools will be closed here, the question which ones. there's several different options but no one likes any of them. from rallies to bake sales to t- shirt campaigns it has been a long night to keep schools over in the mount diablo school district, and tonight the final push. >> we understand your position, needing to con consolidate

schools to save money. but ours is not the one to close. it's the one to use as a model. >> reporter: to students making their final plea. >> by closing down harbor you are taking away kids chances to get a good education. >> reporter: silverwood elementary, secoia elementary are also considering foreclosure. the combination of deining enrollment and no funding, has forced them to close. back out here live frank and julie. just mentioned ago we learned

that secoi elementary school, middle school and homebrook are safe. that is the latest. we will be here monitoring the situation. when there is a final decision we will bring it to you. more details now in addition to closing campuses the mount diablo school district is trying to negotiate $9 million savings throw employee furloughs and benefit cuttings. with more than 36,000 students, the district is one of the largest in california. it has a budget of almost $300 million this year. at this hour police in oakland are searching for four men in connection with a homicide. the shooting took place about 7:35 tonight. a man in his 30s was shot and killed outside of a grocery store. we have learned the four suspects were wearing dark hoodies. investigators remain at the

scene and at this point, police are investigating what happened. ktvu's amber lee is live on jackson street where an attack happened. >> reporter: frank, police tell us the suspect followed the woman as she entered this building and attacked her before she could get inside her apartment. tonight we saw police officer enter the building where a chinese woman in her 50s was sexually assaulted and beaten around this time last night. officers say the attack was brutal and the victim was sent to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. the victim's neighbors described to me what they heard from their apartments. mrs. yao and her husband said they heard two chilling screams

coming from the floor above hill. mr.yable yao ao says the scream scared him. the traumatized victim was only to provide a vague description of her attacker. they hope to interview her again to put together a sketch. this attack does not appear to be linked with crimes in lake merit. >> i think it's very important that people support her in any way they could. >> reporter: sarah young is with health services. she says victims usually take longer to heal because of cultural issues. >> a lot of sigma around any kind of sexual activities in the asian culture. and it's even worse because it was an assault. >> reporter: reporting live in

oakland china town, amber lee, ktvu news. an arbitrator has ordered -- rejected the woman's alleges of being raped by gresett. gresset gets his job back but is still facing rape charges. the widow of a contra costa firefighters is set to receive $15 million. scott desmond was one of four people killed in 2007 during a house fire in san pablo.

desmond widow sued a company because they called police and failed to include that there was a fire. detectives say jul iani's grandmother tried to block rodriguez from forcing his way through a garage into the family's home. rodriguez pushed her down, held her down with his knee and grabbed juliani while he yelled, no daddy, no daddy. rodriguez helped raise juliani since he was a child. ktvu cameras went inside the new death chamber last

september. back >> he asked questions, he didn't portray any opinions or any emotional one way or the other. he did say at the end of the hearing that he wanted to wrap this up as soon as possible. nonetheless he's had this case for six years. >> judge vogel says he plans to hold three more hearings before he rules on california executions. in addition to the death chambers, the judge is weighing the protocall for lethal injection. and palo alto has made it official, facebook will be moving to menlo park.

the campus fits it open no cubical environment. >> it's great to bring interaction. >> reporter: the new facility is much bigger an more secure than the old palo alto facility a mile away. menlo's major calls it a much needed move. facebook had 2,000 employees and had grown at 50% each year. the move could hurt palo alto and this popular employee hang out. >> they do a lot of parties here and what not. so i don't think it's going to hurt us but it will impact the business a little bit.

>> reporter: this facility can hold double the employees what they have in palo alto. in menlo park, maureen naylor. a milpedas man is accused of -- a restraining applies to zuckerburg's girlfriend and sister. the incentive san francisco is considering now to try to keep twitter in town and jump start a blithed neighborhood. that story is coming up at 10:45 tonight. whipping winds on the bay tonight but will wind affect your day tomorrow? the forecast in less than 10 minutes. the petitions are signed

and delivered.

an update now on a recall in the city of hercules. the recall is targeting the acting major and the city council member. ktvu's ken wayne is live in

hercules tonight where tonight's council meeting wrapped up about an hour ago. >> reporter: this would call the first recall in the city of hercules. residents turned over 6,000 signatures demanding two city leaders leave office. >> the citizens of hercules understand the problems that are occurring in our city and have overwhelmingly signed these petitions. tonight i'm the executive kpháe committee and all the volunteers that worked the last few days want to thank the city. >> reporter: the former major stepped down a few weeks ago but council members don keene and diane ward are fighting the recall. >> i would very much love to keep my seat till my term is

up. so it's you know, i should have until the end of 2012. >> i feel that they have made any false accusations and misrepresented my record. >> reporter: the recall leaders say they are being misrepresented and threaten to sue the councilman unless he retracts and apologized about what he said about retracts. >> have you had no sense of decency. at long last, have you no sense of decency. >> reporter: the city council didn't respond. once the petition signatures are verified, hercules voters can decide the fate of their council members in their june election. new numbers show jean quan became oakland's mayor despite spending less money during the final two weeks of the

campaign. don pereata spent twice as much as quan. p era ta spent over $970,000. >> the obama administration is trying to set up a new dial type of project that includes california. it's a high speed rail enterprise designed to create jobs and make the country more globally competitive. >> we cannot compromise in education, invasion or infrastructure. the rest of the world is not compromising on education, infrastructure or invasion. >> if congress approves the plan the first $8 billion would go to developing or improving trains that travel up to 250- miles-an-hour and to connecting existing rail lines to this project. during the state of the union

address, the president said he wants to give 200,000 people access to high speed trains this year. the newspaper report says scalen is the highest paid transit boss in california with a salary of more than $400,000. but the transit district says scalon's basal base salary is a little more than 240,000. nurses at stanford hospital and lucilee hospital is calling it a declaration of war. the hospital has announced they will implement a contract that the nurses rejected almost a year ago. negotiations and the effort of a federal mediator failed to reach an agreement. the nurse say they are upset about a plan including

demotions in some cases. there are was an outpouring today for an elementary school principal that was shot last week. young students with their parents as well as former students all showed up to remember lacarr. they said that sam lacarr was more than just their principal, they said he was like a member of their family. pretty windy today, no wind advisories but on the bridges, the wind was blowing. this is the east side of the richmond san rafael bridge. winds are down to 11-miles-an- hour. the winds have died down this evening, that means it's going to get cold. as the wind dies down overnight lows tonight can easily get to near freezing in the north bay and east bay valley. a cool start to your weekend. this is out past the weekend just at the tail end of the weekend. looks like we can get to a very wet weather period. we start off tomorrow morning with some very cold overnight

lows, 35s in the north bay. even down to 32, 42 in oakland. or 43 in oak land. no oakland. no fog, less wind. mid-60s, not much warmer than that. temperatures are coming up and we have rain in your bay area forecast, i'll have all the details on that and i'll be back here in just a few minutes. the national football league is trying to help players who didn't have seats for the super bowl. now those fans have the option of attending any future super bowl including round trip air fares and hotels but they would get no cash. supports of a runway toyotas and millions of the cars recalled. >> let's be clear, the jury is back, the verdict is in.

later that day, we found this video posted on a blog. >> the video was taken by a concerned citizen who did immediately call the police. >> san francisco police tell us it was not a random attack.

the man and woman met earlier that day. a government investigation of run away toyotas has concluded and the bottom line, it found in evidence of software or electronic flaws. lloyd lacuesta tells us what did cause those vehicles to accelerate. >> reporter: this time last year toyota was very busy, not in the factory. a worldwide recall resulted over claims of sticky gas pedals. today the government released the findings of a 10 month

investigation. >> let's be clear, the jury is back, the verdict is in, there is no electronic based cause for unintended high speed acceleration in toyotas period. >> reporter: nasa and the national safety administration conducted the study. >> we are incredible confidence that the only causes of acceleration are the two mechanical causes. floor mat entrapment and sticky pedal. >> it would make more sense that it would be mechanical or something with the mats. >> you could say it takes them off the hook a little bit. but i'm sure there's people that are still a little uneasy about it. especially the people that experienced the problem with their cars. >> reporter: the investigators

report the majority of the problems were human error. toyota has since installed a break system. lloyd lacuesta. toyota welcomed the government's findings saying quote we will continue to cooperate fully with the nhtsa and respect it outside experts in order to help ensure to make sure that our customers have the confident in the safety and reliability of our vehicles. gonan led the protesters in a chant. egypt above all. he was released yesterday after spending 12 days in custody.

as rita williams shows us, today's demonstrations was one of the largest in days. >> they stood shoulder to shoulder in cairo today, the crowd bigger, voices louder but egypt's vice president said the president will stay and hinted that quote police tools will be used unless the protest ends soon. a bay area man saw some of those tools up close in egypt. although he wants to remain anonymous for safety reasons, he came to ktvu to share photos. and videos shot with his iphone. >> they want a democracy, they want a better life and they want to be just like us. >> reporter: after spending the first three days of the uprising, he took the metro and accidentally end up here near the square. an upscale egyptian protester

offered him refuge in his apartment. that's when he later saw police launch canisters at the protesters, canistered that were labeled made in the u.s. he had to get through the police line alone to leave. so he flashed his american passport. >> at that point they let me go. and from that, the moment i crossed the policemen, i did not look back. >> reporter: but he says he hopes to go back to help the people who helped him. rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. on the highway with the man they call dr. road kill. >> beautiful bird. >> reporter: and what he's doing to save lives, animal and human. a special report still ahead. and decisions have been

an update now on tonight's top story. the mount diablo school district has made it's decision voting to close two schools -- its decision voting to close two schools. >> reporter: people have been on the edge of their seats waiting to find out the school's fate. just minutes ago the school board hear made it's decision. the two schools that will be closing are holbrook elementary school and glenbrook middle school. it's all in an effort to save $1.5 million. joining me now is one of those ho lbrook teachers, i know this

is very disappointed to you. >> we're very disappointed. we thought the program counted and we didn't know what the decision was going to be tonight. we're going to face a lot of unhappy students tomorrow. >> do you know what happens to you and the to the students. >> we're going to go in different directions. the district will tell us where we're going to go. hopefully the teachers will follow the students to probably two different elementary schools. >> obviously very difficult decisions being made here. right now the board is discussing what to do with the students. but the latest here julie and frank two schools closing here in the mount diablo school district. i'm heather holmes, ktvu channel 2 news. there is new information tonight about a story we first brought you last night on an 18- year-old girl from san jose who was in critical condition tonight after she was hit and dragged by a car this past weekend. investigators now say erica lina was dragged 2,000 feet not

the original 700 feet that was first estimated. luna was struck early sunday morning on fontane road in san jose. her family has raised $5,000 for information that leads to a conviction of that hit d run drcrhed hip, and broken pelvis. but her brother says she did have a breakthrough moment. >> she tried to mumble with her lips, you know i love you. which is, it breaks my heart to see her like that. but you know i can tell that she's fighting. >> at this point police are looking for a silver or gray mini van. possibly a mini van. it is not a pleasant site. all kind of animals killed on california's highways. but now there is an effort to make things safer. in tonight's special report, health and science editor john fowler tells us some enthusiastic volunteers are at the heart of this effort.

>> reporter: sometimes drivers can't tell for sure. >> they feel like speed bumps. >> other times they can. >> quite an impact on the whole family and the vehicle. >> reporter: road kill is the leading cause of death for many common animals. in the bay area alone, an estimated thousands every day. experts say it's push some animals toward extinction. >> every quarter mile, half mile you see a dead animal. we can tell that it's a big deal. from a -- scientific point of view we need to measure that. >> reporter: and measuring it, , this man. he and his daughter sarah are the most productive volunteers.

we went along. as he dodged trucks for science. on busy highway 102 in yellow county. >> this is an animal we see quite often. >> there's been some close calls. i am worried if he's going to make it home. so that's when i decided to go with him. >> it can be done safely. but i think the information is so important. nobody has done this. >> reporter: they make an 80- mile loop through rural farmland about twice a month and log up to 150 new road kills each trip. >> i've always seen a lot of roberts and squirrels. the other thing that amazes me is the number of birds. looks like the bird, they suffer, the pain before they die, it's sad. >> that's a mud hen. >> let's put our heads together and figure out what we can do.

>> reporter: caltrans tells us it needs this information. >> how they're affected by the road and what can make it safer. >> reporter: on every single road, loggers find road kill, lots of it. he pointed to the 13, it runs through parks and wildlife. >> if they don't cross the road then those populations are separated and then the species will die. >> reporter: we examined a caltrans handbook with designs of roadway underpasseses and barrier breaks that can allow wildlife. >> if we followed arizona's guidelines, we would have one every quarter mile. >> reporter: that adds about 10% to highway construction costs. protecting birds may be as simple as clearing crash that

attracts rodents. but it needs more volunteers and at least another year of data. >> beautiful bird. oh, with a broken wing. yeah hit by a car. >> reporter: as heartbreaking as this might be to see, it's what motivating these volunteers to scan the highways, look for road kill and maybe a way to prevent it. health and science editor, john fowler, ktvu news. ktvu.com has more details about california's wildlife and how you can get involved in helping to pregnant animals from become -- to prevent animals from becoming road kill. the dow industrial average closed higher for a seventh consecutive session. the dow gained 71 points the nasdaq closed 13 points higher. upward momentum could be tested tomorrow. asian markets are mostly lower at this hour. business is picking up at the

port of oakland. the port has regained some of it lost shopping business. last year the port increased 14% from 2009. the first increase in four years. 2010 turned out to be one of san francisco's busiest airports. more than 39 million travelers used the airport. that's an increase of more than 5% from the previous year. the airport says it benefited from an increase in flights to asian and the middle east. levy strauss is getting another chance to send abercrombie and fitch for their back design. that original case was decided

in favor of abercrombie and fitch. and levi's could bring the case again. coming up a spectacular eruption of flames and tonight one worker is missing. the wind has died

in texas a liquid pipeline exploded at a petroleum plant. one workers remains unaccounted for tonight but may have been away from the site.

workers reported there were problems before the explosion and the plant began shut down procedures. supervisors this evening ruled in favor of a quarry and against residents who are fighting its expansion. the quarry will be allowed to go on with their expansion. santa clara residents argued that the quarry should have to get a permit for the expansion. police said he recented the competition, wu's family defender says wu is being held in a segregated unit because authorities fear he may be a

danger to himself. esm era n selasi said he had no choice, he and his brother are accused of killing three inlaws. if convicted the defendants set life in prison without the possibility of parol but not the death penalty. all involved are from aratria on the horn of africa. in news of the world tonight, wikileak's founder julian asange and his attorney came out fighting today. sweden wants to extradite assamge as part of a sexual assault investigation. he has denied the charges. military officials held face to face talks today. this was the first time the two koreas met since september. that the time the north shell sohern island and there was talk of an all out war.

the colonels are expected to meet again. a new video surfaced today, russia's most wanted man claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at a moscow airport last month. war lord, umura said there would be more and bigger attacksful also said there are millions of others willing to die for their cause. a true band of problems is currently training at camp pendelton before they're set off to war. it's an infantry unit mostly made up by reservists of texas. the hernandez brothers will and raul seem to talk to everybody. >> i don't think there's anybody better to keep my safe than him. >> this will be one of our

biggest struggles that we will go

san francisco's hoping that twitter is the answer for an area that has been depressed now for a long time. ktvu's david stevenson tells us where the city is trying to get the company to relocate and what's being offered as an enticement. >> reporter: the capland family has run this business and has

seen many efforts fail to redevelop this area. >> it's time to bring in an anchor that will really change the area. >> reporter: the city officials introduced a plan to make twitter the anchor. city officials want twitter to take over the block long and empty san francisco mark building. the hope is that other companies will follow and fill empty store fronts. the bait a six year payroll tax exemption. >> twitter's expectation by the end of year is 600 employees. >> reporter: ongoing talks have focused on rail way. >> there doesn't appear to be

really a clear vision for what this neighborhood should become. other than become better. >> reporter: a twitter spokesperson declined to discuss a possible deal but told us quote, i think everybody is happy with the company being in san francisco. in san francisco, david stevenson ktvu channel 2 news. technology researchers reported today for the first time ever smart phones are outselling personal computers. 100million smart phones were shipped in the last three months of last year. that's compared to 92 million personal computers. analysts point to two trends. smart phones are getting cheaper, and pcs are getting the competition from personal tablets. church officials say catholics still have an

obligation to visit a priest and receive absolution. isn't it true just doing a check of temperatures in the north bay and wind. the winds are down, squeeze 20 miles 20 miles per hour an hour in the north bay. winds north-northwest at three. something like this. less wind tonight is going to allow those temperatures to drop in the north bay into the mid- and low 30s. these were the highs from today. high temperatures still above the average. but not near as warm as yesterday or the day before. these numbers a good 20 degrees cooler than they were on saturday and sunday. and temperatured dropped off a little more today. tomorrow's temperatures dropped off a little more today. it's going to be dry for a little bit longer then, all indications are for a very, very very wet period as we come into time. it's kind of way off, i'm rooting it off certainly. this is a few days of rain,

looks like the models want to go past it to five or six days of rain. we could handle it because it's like early fall conditions out there with ground water down. high pressure is the story the next few days before this rain happens. that cell is next week. what we're dealing with now is increasing temperature, they came up a little today. they're coming up more on thursday and friday. we might see a couple of low 70s. winds are dying down. san jose tomorrow morning mid- 40s to wake up to. 48degrees at 7:00 a.m. 60degrees at lunch, 63 degrees for a daytime high as you tap out at about 45. 64 berkeley tomorrow. a beautiful day for your wednesday. and then as we get into thursday and friday. as i mentioned still warmer then it starts to

around. 63 in morgan hill, 63 in san jose. you probably mentioned the visibility, i was up on the east bay hill system. you can literally see the sierra nevada range from grizzly speak. peak. a five day forecast that's going to bring rain. if this transpires we're going to be doing a lot of news of how much it would range if the long range models are correct. but they are converging on five or six days. bay area transportation officials are taking steps to combat soaring fraud. we've been telling you about this fraud since last year. some passengers are using a $2 card to take trips that cost more without adding more money.

that's costing $170,000 in lost revenue. now there will be a mandatory fare of $5 for clipper cards. today the board of supervisors approved an ordnance that allows the city to inspect restaurants to make sure they are not dumping grease. this is what the pipes look like. the owner of one restaurant that already uses the traps told our health and science editor john fowler that the traps allow her to the spend less on maintenance. taco bell is now offering free tacos to people who like

it on facebook. the offer is limited to

well if you don't get enough of glee on fox you can catch the stars on the show as they make a tour across the country later this year. glee live in concert is scheduled to hit the hp pavilion in may. tickets on show go on sale to the general public later this month. football is over let's talk a little hockey. >> you got me there. we will do it. we can always use a new superstar to talk about here in the bay area. the sharks you know what i don't think it's overstating to say we may have one. logan coture shows up in the highlights every night tonight he shows up in the records. in washington third quarter, score. couture his 24th for the year. dan broil he's been in a slump.

hasn't scored a goal since november 23rd, he ends that drought. back to back shut outs for him. four straight wins for the sharks. the giants, they're world champs. the 49ers have victories to their credit. but how does that translate to the golf course? in a five hole charity event, the 49ers led by jerry rice win the tournament. bret jones there. congratulate rice after the punt. the giants did take hold of this event. king was asked a little later,

which was more nerve wracking. here on on the field. >> i would say here. we would have been sad not to bring something home for the fans. >> come on man. pitchers don't work very hard. they spend a lot of time playing golf. they are just like kickers, kickers are the best golfers. downright balmy in wisconsin. about 3 degrees, if you know anything about those fans you know that didn't pull the enthusiasm at all as they greet the super bowl fans in lambeau. chico zone, al zone. >> we brought in guys who were angry, we wanted to play and con reu contribute, a lot of guys stepped up and contributed. a lot of character, and high

energy in that locker room and we did it together, we brought that title pack home pay by, we love you. >> there you go, i call him the would be 49ers. >> you and