area news coverage -- complete bay area news coverage starts right now. california's unemployment rate climbed higher. another sign what the economic recovery may be stalling. the unemployment is now the second highest rate in the country after the state added just 4500 jobs in july.

a major employer plans to cut thousands of jobs. >> well, and frank, that report came just as the bank of america announced it could cut up to 10,000 jobs another sign of uncertainty as more californians are looking for work. >> raymond is the manager of a restaurant in the san francisco financial district where hot bowels of noodles are in demand and now he is in demand because he has a sign out saying now hiring. >> people ask for what kind of position we are looking for. it's really bad right now. a lot of people to not have work. >> today unemployment numbers came out for july showing san francisco's rate at 9% for unemployment. overall, 2.1 million

californians were out of work. >> i was stressed out because i could not find anything at all. i had a hard time finding a job even temping and stuff like that. >> bank of america still announced that it may cut 10,000 jobs nationwide. the banks are streamlining and while the private sector generated jobs many companies are staying careful. >> if i can stay where i am, it maintains my margins. a lot of people are in the same boat. it's hard to hire. >> we had it in previous recessions, we lost jobs that never came back but we gained more than enough new jobs. in this recovery, we have not seen that yet. >> july's biggest job losses came in financial activities and services and government jobs that offset some of the slight gains in the private

sector. more details now to new unemployment figures. the labor department said that unemployment went up in 28 states last month. the rates fell in 9 states and stayed the same in 13. overall, hiring was up slightly last month and the nationwide unemployment rate dropped a 10th of a point to 9.1%. now do those unemployment numbers and the volatility on wall street mean a double dip recession? we will talk about that in a moment. the dow industrial started the day in positive territory and when the final bell range, it had dropped 172 points. the nasdaq lost 38. this was the 4th straight losing week for the market. a day after hewlett packard announced the changes the stock took a beating.

in a single day they had a loss of $12 billion in share value. the company announced yesterday that they plan to sell the pc division and hp is in the process of spending $10 billion to buy a british software company. you'll find more details on the shift in strategy for hp and how it may be a sign of apple's success. look for the wall street tab. new information tonight about a woman that was run over and killed by a san francisco muni bus, that bus hit her at 18th and hartford in the castro district this afternoon. we have been talking to police and witnesses and this is what they say the woman was holding when she was killed. >> frank, we are at the intersection where the accident took place, this is a busy area with lots of pedestrians and vehicle track, now just a short while ago, across the street, neighbors stopped by with cancels and flowers and created a small memorial for the

victim. >> police say the woman struck and killed by the driver was young. 25 to 30 years old. she was walking in the crosswalk and had almost made it to the sidewalk before she got hit. she had a lime colored cell phone and that caught my eye. he saw her holding her cell phone as she was crossing the street. >> what was she doing? >> she was talking on it, she seemed distracted. >> business owners heard screams. >> i could not believe my eyes. the body was under the bus. >> the driver of the muni shuttle bus was traveling down 18th street and was making a left turn when the driver's side of the bus struck the pedestrian trapping her underneath. investigators say the driver was not speeding and that there's no evidence that he was impaired, and standard procedure he will be tested. the muni driver was not on a

regular bus route. he was on his way to market street to help pick up passen injures for the other line. will he be charged? >> i don't know. >> it's sad. >> the medicalthe medical exam iners office has not released any findings yet. san francisco's gang task force is vetting a shooting that sent three people to the hospital. it happened on the sidewalk of eddie street at about 5:00 this evening. police say multiple people shot at three young men or teen- agers, the victims initially ran off and police soon found them, the victims were taken to

the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. no arrests have been made. a 4 and a half hour police standoff ended peacefully this afternoon. it started at 1:00 this afternoon on allendale avenue on high street. the man told the police that he had guns in his home and terminally ill. the man was convinced to give up. it not clear what happen led to the standoff. a former police officer pleaded not guilty today. he and another man stole marijuana and methamphetamine collected as evidence so that they could sell it to street. the men are accused of robbing prostitutes during fake sting operations and operating a massage that -- massage parlor.

>> a child that was struck and killed at 6 6:00 clock last night. a crowd gathered today at the scene of yesterday's hit and run. a mother and her three children were crossing this busy street at 6:00 in the evening when marcus lopez garcia failed to stop and hit the boy. that boy died today. the driver took off and stopped at a nearby park but a witness that was listening to a police scanner spotted him trying to alter the appearance of his car and called the police. >> there was a large sticker in the back window, a giants sticker and at the time the witness observed the suspect he was trying to remove the

sticker from the vehicle. the witness said he got a ride out of the area. the witness took down the woman's license plate number and passed it on to the police that arrested garcia last night. he has two prior arrests for driving without a license. one as recently as a week ago. tonight evelyn gonzalez held her children's hands tightly. she said neighbors agree a simple is fix could make this crosswalk safer. >> lights. stop sign, something brighter. something else that can attract driver's attention. you can see by all the children in the neighborhood, this is a busy crosswalk, garcia was arrested last night on felony hit and run charges now that this 4-year-old has died they will seek to add, a homicide charge in the case. also in sonoma county, investigators have released a

new photo showing a truck in another fatal hit and run case. this is a white ford f-150 pickup truck with a gold stripe at the bottom. the chp said that someone driving a truck such as this hit and killed a 63-year-old man, donald casper on sunday. he was jogging. and a san francisco lawyer and the son of former fire chief andrew casper. another search is planned for the nursing student that has been missing for months. she was last seen in late may in kaiser hospital. the police are treating it as a homicide even though her body has not been found. the search is set to take place in heyward. a stanford university music student is missing in malasia, how his family thousands of

miles away is searching through social media. back here in 10 minutes. i have to tell you about saturday. temperatures will be cooler than they were today in some cities. i'll

new at 10:00, there's concern tonight about a stanford

student traveling in southeast asia that has not heard from. >> there's heightened concern about the stanford university department of music. jacob who pursued his music studiys studies here for the last -- his music studies for the last 3 years has not been in touch. he stayed behind when the tour concerts were over the do traveling on his own. he has been posting videos and photos and texts of his travels on his google+ page. his last post was august 10th. he was a seasoned savy traveler. he is not just experienced, he is sensitive to context and

environment and what is respectful. >> his parents that life in north carolina set up a facebook page seeking more information. he last posted he was in southern malasia, missing person reports have been filed with the u.s. and german especially embassies as -- german embassies as he is a dual citizen. >> they found paperwork that he may have entered a remote part but will have been month sightings. he is booked on a flight back to the bay area next tuesday. ktvu channel 2 news. hazmat teams were called to a home. a family returned home from vacation and began feeling sick when they went inside, and they

called 911. the old fridge in the garage was leaking freon, the symptoms cleared up once they came outside. three men convicted in the murders of three young boys have free tonight after almost 20 years after they were sent to prison. >> hundreds of supporters cheered as the so-called west memphis 3 walked out of jail. they have been in jail for 18 years. the 3 were allowed to plead guilty to murder in exchange for time served. they can maintain their innocence while at the same time acknowledging that the state had enough evidence to convict them. >> we can continue the investigation and clear our names. the difference is now we can do it from the outside instead of having to sit in prison and do it. the families of the victims

were notified about the deal but were not asked to approve it. a member of the hacker group annonymous has broken off and outed himself. he said that he did not agree with the taking personal information. billionaire investor is trying to take over icon, it's color clorox's biggest --

clorox's biggest shareholder. wall street has been shaky and it has been fear of a double dip recession but there are some that do not feel it's at hand. >> a new business owner thinks that these are recession is proof. >> they will spend 3.50. but not $50. >> he opened empinadas and said business is cooking but getting started was tough. he got a loan from the city after banks said no. >> smaller businesses and households are usually to front lines when credit begins to be pulled back. >> gary, senior economist, he said that fears of a global credit crunch does not mean a

double dip recession is coming. >> all in all the economy to me at least is moving sideways. >> while people are worried about the economy, manuel saw worse in argentina. he said here, he is not as concerned. if we reenter a recession, small businesses are usually what brings us out. and he hopes to be part of that trend. >> in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 news. the federal government plans to provide emergency funding to dozens of states including california. the goal is to keep unemployment checks from bouncing since many states' trust funds are running dry. california has borrowed a $8 billion from the federal government and it expects to get another 900 million to cover this month's checks. >> no one should anticipate

that if they exhausted their 99 weeks of benefits that anything new is coming. >> in all 30 states will receive the money to cover benefits. a special east bay jobs program took place today. >> dozens of students from richmond completed their 14 week training program today, they learned skill skills in energy efficiency and 80% of them are able to find work. fog outside right now, a major cool down today, as much as 10 degrees, winds are blowing out of the west southwest. that cool air continues to flow in, these are the highs from today as i mentioned. they were off a solid 10 degrees inland from where they were today. temperatures tomorrow, antioch is coming down and concord is

coming down. mostly temperatures tomorrow in 70s. temperatures tomorrow, similar to today. lots of 70s. sunday will be warmer, i'll be back to look at the sunday forecast and the five-day forcast, see you back here. oakland police officers worked over time tonight but it was for a special cause. >> officers were acting as waiters at kincaid's restaurant to raise money for the northern california special olympics. they let the professional staff take care of the food. they have been joining forces with the police for the last 7 years to raise money for the special olympics, we tried to find out how much money they raised tonight but the manager at kincaids said an hour ago that they will not know until sometime tomorrow. and a serving disturbing

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has been a place for animal sacrifice. >> had he find goat heads and -- they find goat heads and birds, the dogs dig them up because they bury them and wrap them in cloths or whatever. >> the parks officials were alarmed when we told them this morning about the situation. dog walkers say the unusual activities above the city. strange when they do a big event and there's blood on the ground, it's hard to know whether it's safe for the dogs. >> a crew is coming to clean away the symbols. an officer was sent to the park to investigate allegations of animal sacrifice. in san francisco, david stevenson. the coroner conif i wered

what the body -- confirmed that the body that was found was butler who was in a boat that overturned. the friend made it safely to shore. a woman that was pulled out of a burning home has died. flames were shooting out of the home. they rescued an 88-year-old woman and she died this morning from her injuries. the fire caused heavy damage to the house and investigators are the still trying to determine what started it. three other people that lived in the home are staying with neighbors. >> friends and family gathered today to say goodbye to a piedmont high graduate. glenn graduated from san diego state this past spring. he graduated from piedmont high school in 2005. glenn died on august 13th

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wine grapes are hanging on the vines longer because of the cool spring and summer. we have been talking with napa valley wineries about the harvest season and how it shaping up. >> these grapes will be among the last ones picked, pushing close to halloween. the trick is letting them ripen

without getting rained on. >> sellers was pouring tonight. a harvest celebration of food and wine even though the giant press has not crushed a grape yet. >> it's a quick pace all the way through. the crush will not start for another 7-10 days and then 8-10 weeks of picking and processing and fermening. this would have been in by now in a warmer year and because june storms blew blossoms off the vines there are fewer grapes. we think it has the potential to be a good year. >> the vine puts the energy into ripening the fruit that is left and a lot of times the fruit is more intense and concentrated. >> tonight this lab was full of guests tasting but the wine maker is testing in here daily.

figuring out how to coax the best from each variety. >> farm intelligently and to adapt, it's a silly farmer that ignores it and goes forward like it's an average year. it's a billion dollar business that has not been seeing any problems. >> seems like they turn out wine even with all the work. >> so call 2011 a late year and a challenging one but not a bad year, it is too soon to judge with the sun being soaked up by the grapes. two of the leading republican candidates for president were in south carolina today, talking about what they will do on their first day if they are elected. texas governor rick perry envisioned walking into the oval office. >> there will be an executive

order on that desk that eliminates most of obama care that i can have done with executive orders. >> i will guarantee you one thing. president bachmann will hold bake sales if we need to make sure our men and women in uniform get your paychecks. >> congress woman michelle bachmann said that guantanamo bay will remain open. >> and the president shopped and played golf on his first full day of vacation. his daughters and he went to a book store and bought several books. the white house pointed out for critics that he was briefed on national and international issues and officials noted that the president is never really on vacation even when he is not in the white house. sarah palin said she still has not decided whether she will run for the white house.

a new video looks a lot like a campaign ad. >> her political action committee produced the video and in it palin talks about a great awakening of the american public and the video said that she will be in iowa over labor day weekend when election campaigns traditionally kick off. >> a former b.a.r.t. board member is taking on a new project, high speed rail. governor's office announced the high speed rail authority board. the piedmont native worked with b.a.r.t. for 12 years. now, even though the state has a fraction of the billions needed to pay for high speed rail, construction on the first section is set to begin next year in the central valley and if all goes according to plan the project is completed in the year 2020. the nuclear regulatory commission has moved forward on sweeping safety changes for this country's nuclear

industry. the move was triggered by the crisis in japan. the commission directed at staff what action the agency should take. there are 104 nuclear reactors across the country. the commission gave itself october for a deadline for the staff to make the recommendation. a sickly man was wheeled into court today to face charges that he murdered a woman 30 years ago in san jose. how dna evidence from a, marijuana cigarette led police to the suspect. >> he made a short appearance in front of a judge. two days ago he was in a hospital and police showed up and arrested him for murder. >> the guy just had a stroke, been in the hospital for a week and a half, two weeks. dizzy, can't walk or stand up. >> the cold case unit said that when he was 29 years old he

attacked and killed a night security guard at a rv dealership. her body was found inside a trailer and had been stabbed 30 times. we have blood evidence that puts the defendant actually touching the victim. we have a, marijuana cigarette with both of their dna on it. he claims he did not recognize a picture of the woman. he lived in richmond and has worked as a roofer for 30 years. >> he is a hard worker. would do anything in the world for the family. and just one of the best wokers i ever had. >> the family does not understand why it took the police 30 years to investigate the case. the da's office said that dna testing was not available back then and they have a huge backlog of cases. >> it's important to solve that crime no matter how long it is. >> the woman's family was not

in court but the police are in touch with them. and in san francisco, there's concern about pick pockets. police tell us just yesterday, about half a dozen tourists reported having their wallets stolen. the crowdie fishermen's wharf -- the crowded fishermen's wharf and other attractions are targets for the pick pockets. carry your wallet in your front pocket and backpacks on the front. making the cut for oxford's next edition. we will have the five-day forcast that has a chance of

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well labor dispute is growing at the south bay's largest sewage treatment plan. they say what the contractor, anderson pacific is not using properly classified workers and meeting wage requirements. now san jose is seeking a temporary restraining order at the plant that serves 1.6 million people. it's a little over the top. but, you know, the city did what they felt they had to to. >> anderson pacific is a nonunion contractors and said that it tries to comply with all labor requirements set by the city. >> lake county officials say the stench coming from clear lake seems to be going away. for the past month it has been infested with algae and a

bacteria that smells like rotten eggs. it's the worst in years and they can not say for sure when it will go away completely. in afghanistan, taliban suicide bombers attacked a british compound killing eight people. the assault happened on the 92 anniversary from the independence from britain. in libya, rebels battled with forces from gadhafi. the rebels had control of most of the city by night time. nato's bombing campaign has made it more difficult for reenforcements to come from gadhafi and now reb es ls control off of the city -- rebels control all of the city.

the pope talked about the modern society's amnesia about god. he told the nuns that their dedication for the faith is a strong message for today's world. the ox dictionariy -- the oxford dictionary is adding words, sexting, woot and retweet. ipad ordered new components to build the new tablet. they will have an official launch happening sometime early next year. one of the key features will be a higher resolution screen. in fact it expected to be almost twice as high as the

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a bay area landlord is taking a tentent to court because he said that she has not paid rent for eight months and she will

not leave. according to court records she has done this a dozen times before. >> the man that owns this house said he is not allowed inside. it's a frustrating situation because the tentent has not paid rent since january. >> i cannot go in, it's her home and she is entitled to it as if she owned it. >> this woman is fighting the eviction order in court right now and told us her side of things. >> they are lying. >> what are they lying about? >> i tried to pay the rent and they would not take it. >> a search of court records shows her in the same situation in 10 other cases. >> she has not paid rent for 8- 9 months now, and refuses to

leave. >> one local attorney said that home owners have to jump through hoops to get renters to pay up or move out. he wishes he would have done research before renting to the woman. >> you can get taken for a ride in a hurry. >> during a court hearing, the judge dismissed the case because of im properly filed paperwork, he will refile. a los angeles judge wants match.com to show that it's doing enough to screen the members. match.com is a popular online dating website. the judge is asking for proof what the site is looking for sexual predators. this comes on the heels of a case where a man plead guilty

for sexualing assaulting a woman he met on the site. health officials say they expected to see west nile virus in mosquitoes this summer. the cdc is getting ready for flu season, officials say they are confident that there will be enough vaccines this year. they are encouraging anyone older than six months to get the shot and this year people 65 and older could choose to get a high doze form of the vaccine. the shots are available next month with the season running from october to may. bill clinton is now a vegan, that means month animal products at all. that means no more burgers that he loved years ago. clinton said that two close calls with heart trouble helped

him to change his diet. at thanksgiving he will have a bite of turkey. a fundraising walk and run will be held in oakland tomorrow. the friends of faith charity is named in honor of our former colleague, that died of breast cancer in 2003. they -- the group provides granteds to under insured or low insured cancer patients. we have got fog rolling in over the bay area right now. today was cooler by a good 10 decrees in land and tomorrow a degree or two cooler. not a big warm up at all. forecasts right now as we go to the golden gate bridge, south tower, the winds are gusting to 13. water temperature 58 degrees and as we head into the bay area weekend, of course you'll see overnight lows like they

have been all summer. fog in most bay area neighborhoods and fog at the coast and it most likely not going to clear. it will be foggy all day. this is a system that we been tracking. when it dipped south we cool down. temperatures drop a good 10 degrees, and it stayed south tomorrow and temperatures stay on the cool side and sunday it goes north and the high builds in and temperatures come up a bit. subtle changes. tomorrow change is subtle in terms of cooling and warmer on sunday. the forecast, we start out at the coast, 3:00 down towards the beach. about 60 degrees, 62 degrees, patchy fog, the not clear much there. you get into the bay climate and it a good percentage of the viewing audience is within that area. you are looking at partly sunny by 3:00 and 60s and low 70s at best and you get out in the big

valley out towards livermore and antioch and morgan hill and south, and you'll find temperatures in the low 70s and low 80s. we have so many micro climates. there's hundreds of them in the bay area. i gave you the big ones. forecast tomorrow, fog, everywhere tomorrow. that is why it's cooling tomorrow, and then on sunday, less fog so it will be a bit warmer. forecast highs you see cool, moist, lower fire danger and not even that much meet in sacramento up in the valley. redding has heat and out toward the delta not a lot of heat. no surprises here at all. sunday, just tack on five degrees to four degrees. five-day forcast, with your weekend always in view. of course your weekend is here.

and here it comes. it's going to be just like i said, cooler saturday and little warmer on sunday. and then, there we go into next week and mild changes. i mentioned the chances for moisture. we may see some activity that we will watch for you. >> you can feel it with the wind blowing around. >> cooler. >> thanks, bill. >> while we are on the subject of weather. flash flooding hit pittsburgh pennsylvania and by the time the water reseeded three people were dead. water in one part of pittsburgh rose to 9 feet. a woman and three children are confirmed dead, a 70-year-old woman is missing and presumed dead. the whole world got to watch william and kate tie the not. those wanting to watch the

wedding of kim kardashian will have to wait. it's being filmed and security will be @

the wine country air show is at the sano -- at the sonoma airport. the event is remembering the 10th anniversary of the

september 11th attack. the event runs 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. we have posted a slide show of this on our home page. mark joins us with sports. the giants are not flying high. they are continuing to do their thing. >> remember in the early news, you look at the lineup. even before the game, you got to say, how are they going on score. opposing pitchers have to be salivating at that lineup. they could not hit a ball off of a tee. no need of a closer although wilson has fans in houston. here is your best shot at scoring. fontenot drills it to right but the astros with a beautiful throw to the plate to nail huff in the second. they are not on the score board, vogelsong took his third loss of the year.

who are these astros? a shot down the line with a out. rodriguez threw 8 shut-out innings. and that is it to add insult to injury, 6-0 your final. dbacks have run into trouble in the east. mccann with a no doubt about it for the braves leading them to a 4-2 win. the a's not exactly pounding the baseball either. they had a guy on the mound pounding the strike zone. dealing 7 different kinds of of smoke as he runs into trouble in the first inning. bases loaded and he whipped encarnacion and rasmus to get out of it. willingham with a shot to deep

left. and it held up. that is all they got, but harden, 7 shut out innings and totally in command, a career high, 13 total stikeouts foresees pitchers and they take it -- for, a's pitchers and they take it. st. marys is making sure that their coach is not changing location any time soon. he is in his 11th season as head man, they gave him a 10- year contract. they are rolling with 4 straight 25 win seasons. battle of the bay, tomorrow early evening right here on ktvu channel 2, raiders visit the ninerss over at the stick, you'll see the entire game followed by the post game show, interviews and highlights of course and the great bubba paris, former 49er and raider for that matter will join us on

the set. that was the sports for a friday night. not just your every day exhibition