authorities say a search of this house in reno led to the arrest of a northern california serial killing suspect. good evening everyone i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. he's accused of killing four northern california women. two were from the bay area. and in a strange twist the first name and last name of each victim began with the same

letter. ktvu's eric rasmussen on the arrest of a serial killing suspect. >> reporter: bay area investigators say they've solved the cold case killings of four women with the arrest of this man 77-year-old joseph naso. >> we are going forward on four murder counts. >> reporter: marin county district attorney bavarian says the oldest case goes back to 1977 when the body of roxanne roggasch was found. he is also accused of killing car men colon. >> we are not going to be taking any questions. >> reporter: the da would not say whether dna linked him to the victims. only that items found at his

home had them come back to the investigation. >> led marin investigators to connect naso with the death of rogash. >> now naso could finally be held responsible, prosecutors will say they will try him for all four murders at once making him eligible for the death penalty. eric rasmussen. the arrest is also drawing attention from rochester new york. three girls were killed there in the early 70s. the girls were known as the double initial killing. all three victims had the same initial for the first and last name just like the victims in california. naso lived in rochester in the 60s and reportedly traveled

there in the early 70s. we learned he was born in new york state in 1934. he served in the u.s. service. he married and divorced in the early 60s. naso was working as a commercial photographer in reno. we talked to the bay area man who says he remembers joseph naso from a photography class they took together more than 40 years ago. >> he just gave me a funny feeling but i looked beyond that because i was looking at his photographs and stuff. >> reporter: naso went door to door looking for business. he hired naso to take pictures of his daughter for her first birthday. >> we had him in our home, and i think a lot of other people did. >> reporter: the man says he

hasn't thought about naso in years. but heard the news and was stunned to hear about the accusations. >> we're all hear now. things could have been different. >> reporter: the man we talked to wanted to remain anonymous. he also tells us he thought it was odd that naso was in a beginning photography class when he was already a professional photographer. looking back, he thinks that he could have been using that class to meet potential victims. i want to show you a map of where the four bodies were found. the first victim was found in marin. one in fair faction and two more in yuba county. patti lee is live. >> reporter: this is where the first victim was found. but in a small town like this,

a discovery of a body is not easily forgotten. an event mariann robinson remembers. >> it was so long ago i had forgotten about it. until my husband made a response. that could have been that girl in 1978 but we didn't know for sure. it was a big thing then. >> reporter: the death of carmen colon stayed a big mystery, a cold case. as today we spoke to her son. >> i didn't think that they would have found him after so many years. >> reporter: conversations with the mother of roxanne and carmen, they didn't think a suspect would have been found so many years later. >> we thought they had swept it under the rug and forgotten. because we hasn't heard anything for years. >> reporter: she moved to

oakland when she was about 16 years old and murdered when she was 18. roxanne mother told us tonight that she has most of the photos but for now is only sharing them with the detectives on this case. reports live in port costa. patti lee. we will continue digging for more information on this case and postthe latest developments on ktvu.com. an autopsy is scheduled to be determined tomorrow on a napa state hospital inmate who died after being subdued by staff. earlier this year workers at napa state hospital were demanding more security, including guards patrolling inside the hospital because of

attacks on employees. including one attack where a nurse was killed. new information tonight in a case of a 16-year-old san francisco high school student killed over the weekend. the body of andy zeng was found. the 15-year-old accused of killing zeng is scheduled to appear in juvenile court tomorrow morning. today students and staff remembered zeng a sophomore at a popular student. >> he's a nice kid. he's a very nice kid. always with a smile. jokes around a lot, he has a lot of friends here. >> the di identifies 18-year- old jimmy le as an accessory to murder after the fact. two other teens were also arrested. they are accused of dousing the

crime scene with a accelerate. the teens were playing with a gun and they claim the shooting was an accident. violence at clubs last year prompted the police department to propose nine security measures. they range from making clubs have more security staff to adding surveillance cameras at every exit to scanning and storing the i.d.s of everyone in the club. that last proposal has people concerned about their privacy. >> they should not be available upon request to the police. >> reporter: police also suggest adding more security to the clubs. no word on when the commission will take up the issue again. coming up a little later,a famous tavern facing closure: we're going to show you the move on the way now to try and

save this famous south of market establishment. >> an update on a story we first brought you at 5:00. three kayakers are safe tonight after cold and fright moments in san francisco bay. chopper2 was over head as the coast guard are rescued the three. the three found themselves in trouble when the kayaks overturned. the coast guard swept them out of the water and brought them into shore, took them to the hospital to be checked out. and trouble has come to the city of hercules. the city council is meeting tonight. ktvu's ken wayne is live now in hercules where that meeting is still going on right now. ken. >> reporter: julie, there are

160 seats inside the hercules city council chambers. you can see over my shoulders and see there are people standing at the door because there's so many people there's some standing. speaker after speaker lined up to protest cuts and pet programs from seniors. >> i employ you on behalf of the seniors to keep that lifeline open. >> reporter: to teachers. >> elementary school music funds is something that goes a long ways in the life of our students. >> reporter: to get out of it as much as 1/3 of the city employees could face pink slips. >> we haven't faced anything to do lay offs in the next decade. so it's definitely a shock and

hard to digest for some of our dedicated employees. >> reporter: one council member resigned, two more face recall. observers say hercules must now face its new fiscal reality. >> all the bad administration now is coming to play against the innocent employees of hercules. >> reporter: also tonight the embattle city attorney alfred cabral announced his resignation. system say he saw the writing on the wall and knew he would not have support for his reelection which comes up this june. it's a case of a stolen car in hayward. but wait till you see who owns the missing car. putting

a bay area soldier on leave from iraq is pleading for the person who stole his car to please return it. lloyd lacuesta is in hayward, he tells us while the car is important, what was inside the car is more important. >> reporter: this one taken

from this street laurel avenue from hayward on monday from this very driveway has special significance. it belonged to a soldier home on leave from iraq. >> i looked that way, i went that way, nothing. there was no indications of my car. >> reporter: california national guards men robert dornab says everything he owned was in his car. he returned from iraq next week. he goes back next week. >> i have all my clothes in there. and the equipment, the paper work, and the laptop. i mean the laptop has all the pictures of my son. >> reporter: dornath and his wife are separated. after visiting friends, he was planning to go to the central valley to see his autistic son. >> i have no wheels to go any where. i can't go see my son. i can't, that's the biggest thing. is to see my son. >> reporter: a stolen car is a

1998 two door honda accord, black with tinted windows. california license plate 4xbg613. on the window is a sticker reading operation iraqi. >> give it back to me. give me my life back because that was my life. i'm over in iraq serving in iraq to help you out. to give you the freedoms to walk the streets. you know, don't take that from me. >> reporter: i spoke to dormath's captain and he says he's one of us. while he will help with paper work, he still has to ship out to iraq next week. >> if you would like to help out you can get in contact with robert by e-mail. go to ktvu.com and control down to the stories section.

michelle obama and jill biden is using their clout to reach out to all americans. today they sat down with carol han to talk about their new initiative called joining forces. the program calls to bring government, americans together to build a safety net. >> when 1% of the country is fighting for the freedoms of the rest of us. the other 99% of us should be able to rally around. the father of young oregon man who was swept out to sea when the tsunami hit last month remembered his son today as a beautiful handsome man. the body of dustin douglas weber was found in oregon.

he was taking pictures of waves from the tsunami when a surge pulled him in. the oregon state medical examiner's office said today someone walking on the beach discovered the body about a week and a half ago. in japan, the government said today that radiation leaks from that crippled nuclear power plant in fukushima are now declining. this came after it raised the level of the disaster to a seven. the highest on an international scale and equal to that of the trenoble disaster back in the 80s. a radiation detector showed levels were zero on a package of tomatoes. fukushima and trenoble are thought to be in the same level, the two are vastly different. at least in the radiation leaks. >> reporter: this pile of

rubble is about the amount of nuclear material trenoble released in its first hour. and this amount is the amount that fukushima released in its worse hour. the two cannot be compared. nuclear engineer anubish says unlike trenoble, the area around fukushima was quickly evacuated. >> they are giving the wrong message. >> so that was the latest additional. >> reporter: in the uc berkeley nuclear engineer lab, new radiation results. >> it's still there in the milk. >> reporter: he says continuing

radiation testing of local milk, fruit, grass and soil all show a similar reading. >> it's definitely declining. never was really something to be concerned about. and now even less so. >> reporter: his team will continue sampling and plans an international conference this summer to analyze results. john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. and the san onofre held a drill today in case of an plastic surgery. e mergency. they are required to do an exercise like this every two years. this emergency drill is taken on new significant after what happened in japan. the clouds are increasing outside right now. pretty nice day today. tomorrow increasing clouds. sprinkles in the forecast in the morning. and then temperatures well

begin to warm up a little bit. the skies begin to clear in the afternoon. 35 in santa rosa. as promised the computer model depicting tomorrow morning's compute. here we are tonight, the clouds increase. early tomorrow morning 5:00 a.m. you've got showers showing up in the north bay. not a big deal. here we are in the 6:00 a.m. hour. scattered showers out toward livermore. not a big wet commute. but it's a little bit out there. then the cloud cover, 7:00 a.m., scattered showers. san mateo up on the north coast. this isn't going to shut you down on the morning commute. 8:00a.m. or getting into that hour. more rain in the north bay. and as we look at 9:00 a.m. you can see heavier showers up for san francisco, that should be the heaviest time. i'll roll this through the rest of the day. and then we will go on through the rest of the forecast. your morning commute looks pretty dry despite some late showers. the jury deciding barry bonds phase looked at -- the jury didn't ask to see any evidence or have any testimony

read back to them today a first since deliberations began. legal analysts tell ktvu news that the longest the jury deliberates the more likely it could be split on one or more of the verdicts. bonds is accused of three charges of lying to a federal grand jury about using steroids and one count of obstruction of justice. in oakland a follower of your black muslim bakery took the witness stand. bey reportedly implicated yusuf bey iv in the killing. today he said that was only an opinion. bey also referred to himself as a black muslim bakery warrior. yusuf bey iv has pled not guilty. the bold plan launched today by governor brown and

in the silican valley today, governor brown -- >> with his signature, governor jerry brown committed the state to the most ambitious energy plan in the country. 1/3 of the state's energy must come from solar, wind or other renewable sources by 2020. >> today we have something that is a real success story. it's california leading the country. it's america potentially leading the world. >> reporter: today's bill signing took place inside the flextronic manufacturing plant.

a plant that created 300 jobs in the silican valley in just the last three months. >> it's not only the pay thing, it's a good opportunity for everyone. this is green energy and green energy for everyone. >> reporter: u.s. energy secretary steven chu on hand for today's signing pledged a conditional $1.1 billion in loans to support the california green plan. a move the feds says will create 250 construction jobs and about a thousand permanent jobs. >> this is just the part of the our strategy to lead the clean energy race and under president obama's leadership we're jumping in the clean energy race and we're playing to win. >> reporter: the plant will help the state meet its goal in the end of the decade. first he said he was running for president.

then tim pawlenty backed off. this is what the republican said on cnn tonight. >> i'm not putting my head in the ring rhetorically, i'm focused on running for president. >> tim pawlenty had been asked if he would run as vice president alongside -- the president is expected to call on ending the bush era tax cuts. house speaker john boehner said today any plan that raises taxes is a nonstarter. the director of the livermore lab announces he plans to step down. he was instrumental in the

recent completion of the world's largest laser that's been used to explore research. in sacramento, democratic assembly speaker perez said today any effort to close the state's $15 billion deficit with cuts would be an exercise in futility. instead perez says he will push lawmakers to approve taxes. those taxes wouldn't be put into effect until taxpayers ratify it. which means two republicans in each house would have to say yes to a deal. the bar that's been here for decade,

we are getting laid word into the ktvu newsroom about a hazmat incident on the way right now. we just got off the phone with alameda fire. they said two separate alarms sounded at the plant about 8:35 indicating the presence of chlorine gas. about 25 employees evacuated on their own. fire officials say they are on the scene right now and are investigating. a popular bar in san francisco is about to change ownership. the eagle tavern is one of the city's oldest gay bars and the city is rallying to save it. supporters are looking for help

now from city hall. amber. >> reporter: we're inside the eagle tavern. even on a tuesday night it's busy. but the mood is somber as the iconic bar is scheduled to close at the end of the month. about 100 supporters gathered on the steps of city hall this afternoon to fight the bar's closure. the concern now is when it reopens under new ownership the bar won't cater to the gay community. one patron says it gave him a safe environment. >> the bar is what kept me alive. as a teenager i tried to commit suicide twice coming from a born again christian family. >> reporter: the tavern is a popular community spot and has

often hosted community events. >> we're like a family here and we help each other out. when we see somebody in trouble we try to help them. >> reporter: last night supporters trimmed their passion for the eagle into a march from the tavern to the sky lark a straight bar. they say the owner of sky lark is in negotiations to take over the eagle and turn it into a straight bar and ignore the historical significance of the eagle. patrons say the bar has changed through the years. >> i bring my boyfriend here who's a straight man and he feels welcome. we both feel welcome here. >> reporter: supporters are trying to enlist the help of supervisors to put pressure on the property owner to keep the bar the way it is. we contacted the property owner and the owner of sky lark, neither returned our calls. reporting live here in san francisco, amber lee ktvu channel 2 news. san francisco police ended the take over of a vacant building this morning. it is a story we first told you

about last night. >> i didn't do anything wrong. >> stop resisting the police. police arrested eight men from the group known as homes not jails. the group took over the building to protest what they say is a housing crisis. the three story building is owned by kaiser permanente which says is unfit for occupancy. friday night's dumping was the fourth time in five months someone used that street as a place to dump their trash. most of it was roofing material but we found everything from a stuffed animal to photographs. >> it's so bad for the city. bad for the neighbors. bad for the industry here. because people come to see our work here and when they see all that, they feel like just turning back. >> the city tells us it will

cost about $30,000 to clean up the latest mess. in february we reported on the city's campaign to put an end to illegal dumping in the bay view. now residents and business owners there tell us they want the city to do more such as install surveillance cameras. in oakland police today identified the man shot and killed last night in east oakland. jeffrey nicoles was shot several times while sitting in his car on golf lanes road when we first reported the story, nicoles was in highland hospital. he later died at the hospital. a new study of exconvicts in the united states found that almost half of them wind up back behind bars within three years of their release. a study by the pew center on the states found that 43% of prisoners who are released in 2004 were back in prison by

2007. nationally spending on corrections departments has increased from $30 billion per year a decade ago to about $52 billion a year today. it was a tough day on wall street as stocks reacted to the nuclear crisis in japan. the dow industrials dropped 117 points. its worse day in almost four weeks. the nasdaq fell 26. news from cisco systems today could spell the end of the popular flip camera. cisco announced it's dropping the flip camera. only two years ago, cisco bought the flip from the company that created the camera. analysts say it's not clear why cisco isn't selling the flip technology right now but they say that could eventually

happen. and figley is claiming that he -- yesterday a federal judge ruled against the winkelbros pwrers. and cameras are being installed in secret low locations throughout the area. the reason is not to spy on people but to spy on mountain lions. including the one that might have killed several sheep recently at a winery in napa. members of the conservation fund surveyed the area where it's believed one or more mountain lions attacked and killed bred sheep last month. today while walking the trail, they stumbled upon some evidence. >> mountain lion feces and bone inside that cap. >> reporter: the battery operated cameras equipped with an sd card that will be able to take colored pictures of the

cats during the day. and the ability to take video like this of the cat at night. >> having this is going to allow us to see a lot more. >> reporter: we want to demystify the species for communities so that there is generally an acceptance of the fact that this cat roams honest us. >> reporter: today the group added two cameras here to tildon park but we can't show you exactly where they're located for fear that they might be vandalized, however the group says they are needed. the group says there have been sightings, that's why they're working with the community. >> we can understand better as humans how to move forward into our future and have the cats in the landscape. >> reporter: the group's plan is to have several cameras throughout the area. next week they plan to add several more to tilman park. police are warning residents to be on the look out tonight. a resident appeared seeing what he thought was a mountain lion.

the man said the cat weighed more than 100 pounds and had a long tail. the department of fish and game was notified. a dramatic rescue in s onoma county. a car going 70 miles per hour goes over a cliff and lands in the ocean. and our computer mo

we are just getting word into the ktvu newsroom of a rescue this evening in sonoma county where a car went over the cliff with a family inside. the accident happened around 7:30 tonight on highway 1 just

north of bodega bay. the car went down the cliff about 70 feet. firefighters say a mother, father, and young child were trapped in the car that went into the water. using ropes and baskets the firefighters were able to bring all three up to the road where they were then air lifted by helicopter to a hospital in santa rosa. all three people were very seriously shaken and suffered moderate to serious injuries. many baby boomers are not following the warnings they gave their children about drinking and driving. that's the result of a driving analysis. the website found that since 2,000, drunk driving fatalities have risen 22% for 51 to 60- year-olds. in news of the world tonight, in libya opponents of gadhafi rallied in the streets

of benghazi today. meanwhile a rift is growing among nato members about the campaign. france and britain said other regions are not doing enough to attack the regime and help the rebels. in egypt, protesters gathered outside a hospital where former president mumbarak was taken today. they called him a butcher. just a short time ago we learned prosecutors have announced he is going to be detained for 15 days during an investigation of corruption and violence during his 30 years in power. prosecutors also ordered the detention of his two sons in connection with that same investigation. in russia, president medyez marked the first human space flight today. it says russia must preserve its role as a leader in space exploration. he was 27 years old and became an instant hero of the soviet union. the first american in space

allen shepherd flew a month later. nasa announced today where the fleet of space shuttles will go once they are retired. shuttle endeavor's final mission is scheduled for april 29th. once they are decommissioned they'll head across the country. atlantis will stay in florida. endeavor will be sent to los angeles. discovery is headed for is smithsonian. and enterprise will two to new york city intrepid museum. and the brazilian blow out has come under d some hair stylists and customers have complained that it causes eye irritation, nosebleeding. we took you to a unique

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an incident at new york airport is causing concern. a jumbo jet hit and spun a smaller jet. this evening nine california teenagers with aspirations to become california's youth of the year are enjoying a celebration ceremony in san francisco. the nine were chosen from thousands of teenager who are involved with the 600 boys and

girl clubs throughout the state. two are from the bay area. jesse carrea of san francisco and jose ardez from san jose. tomorrow the nine will find out who won the award. ktvu was the only camera present today as warden rescued blue sturgeon. >> we got one. >> reporter: and it's a big one. it's a losing fight for the fish that will spare its life. >> we came in here to eliminate the poaching threat and these fish dying. we're going to move them back into the river. >> reporter: dozens of sturgeon

are stuck. their trouble started when the sacramento river over flooded last week. >> they are powerful. extremely powerful fish. >> reporter: there are white sturgeon and green sturgeon. the latter is a government protected species. >> this is really a rare occasion. >> reporter: and it's a rare occasion for poachers. this dead fish has a spear wound. this one was captured with a makeshift spear tip in its skull. >> it looks like a file. >> it is, it's the end of a file. >> reporter: we're just north from the fish catching exploration. and you can see the sturgeon just under the surface swimming by. that's what makes them such easy targets for poachers. fearing more poaching, this area will be under guard until all the fish are captured, tagged with tracking devices

and released into the near by sacramento river. ken pritchett ktvu channel 2 news. a little breezy out there tonight, kind of cool. then we have some sprinkles on the way. been talking about them all week. they're not here yet but they'll probably be in most bay area neighborhoods by mid- morning tomorrow. light sprinkles, maybe some rain north of here. most areas south of san francisco will just be sprinkles and drizzle. right now in oakland, it's 50 degrees. and the winds are gusting up to 30 miles per hour. so it's breezy out there. the wind are out of the west right now but they're going to start shifting out of the south and southwest at night. about 4:00 in the morning, some showers begin to show up. the weekend as you go out in the long range looks great. it's going to be a real nice spring bay area weekend. tomorrow is going to be a very inclement day. it's going to be just kind of springily and certainly cooler than it was today. we go to santa rosa where there's the best bet of showers

by tomorrow morning. showers in the morning, they start early and they last probably until 10:00, 11:00 then they are done. the system comes down this time of year, they are weak. if this was the middle of winter this thing would have some pot but it doesn't. we're looking for very light showers in the morning. light wind shift. a little light west shift tonight. we already saw the morning, 9:00 a.m. that's the heat of this thing. right around san francisco and oakland, might be raining there. the wipers might be on a little low or moderate. everybody else scattered showers. 10:00a.m., the south bay starts to notice it. then we get a little wit of a break by 11:00 a.m. concord and antioch. then down toward down by the dun barton bridge, you see how scattered it is. the models have been consistent. not expecting a bill gully washer but you could see in the north bay a .1 of an inch of

rain. in the east bay say oakland or alameda you might see .05 of an inch. not a lot. so we go through the day it starts to clear out. that's how it is. it's a nonevent basically. it'll be enough to put a slick on the pavement and that'll slow you down. sal castaneda will be here in the morning and he will help guide you. and there's the five day forecast. we used to do morning shows, they didn't start until 5:00 a.m. >> we did, a long time ago. >> now we're starting at 4:30 right through to 9:00. sal will be all over the wet roads. >> wet roadways is what you're trying to say. it seems like nonsan francisco residents will be required to pay a fee to visit the botanical garden in golden state park. continue charging out of towners up to $5 to visit the

gardens. the fees went into effect last year but were set to expire by the end of june. the supervisors are expected to

more developing news to tell you about right now. we are just learning that a person has been hit by a b.a.r.t. train within the hour. right now crews have cut power to the tracks so that firefighters can try to free the victim. we just got off the phone with b.a.r.t. we are told the individual who was hit by the train is breathing. at this point no trains are running through rock ridge. and train service is delayed. if we learn more we will pass it along to you either on this newscast or on our website ktvu.com. >> mark joins us tonight to tell us more about the giants- dodgers game. >> play time appears to be over. giants look like business tonight and that includes the bearded one out of the bullpen. they even led the series with the dodgers a game a piece. but they were down early 3-0. fought back to within three.

aaron ro rowan and this single. later buster posey who breaks out with three hits tonight with a blast sharply to center. that will score a run in the first. lead didn't hold up but tim lincecum who didn't get a decision but great athleticism by lincecum. shaking it up. keeping the giants in it. in comes wilson looking like bryan wilson. three strike outs to end it. his first save of the year and the giants beat the dodgers 5- 4. as the late great lou rals may have said the hawk was out in chicago tonight. they live by the extra inning homer last night. died by it tonight. down 4-3 in the sixth. ken kusmonov just lasers one to left. two run shot.

the a's take themselves to the lead. it didn't last long. juan pierre with a single. ties thins up 5-5. they go to extra innings like last night. it was not one of the ace to end it with a homer. it was lexi ramirez. he gets the last as do the a's 6-5. they are probably the most consistently successful franchise in the bay area sports wise. but in a weird way they really got more to prove it seems than anyone else. the sharks because they never seem to get as far as expected in the postseason. the big prize has always eluded them. thursday a shot at the prize again. they know all too well the postseason is a whole different deal. >> you know over 82 games

scheduled. it's going to be a very competitive series. >> it could have gone either way in all of them. it's just a physical game. tough game, tough team. and yeah you threw all the stops out the window once you start play offs. nobody really saying anything to get the other team raled up. and the quest for the