we're live at the b.a.r.t. station with the alert that applies to thousands of people. deborah. >> it's all because of an unvaccinated cal student who road this b.a.r.t.

line while sick several days last week what. he thought was a cold was much more -- what he thought was a cold is much more serious. >> the student in his or her carried measles into the el eerito station through berkeley, tuesday through friday, morning and night. >> i already had measles, doesn't that protect me? >> i think so. >> you may not remember shots you got as a child. >> the number of people that potentially are at risk is hopefully relatively small. >> health officials are casting a wide net. >> it is kind of shocking, but i mean, i think there's so many illnesses going around, too. >> the student may have had close contact with 100 people.

the bart commuters, in the thousands. the virus can't survive on suffers but persists in the air. >> after 1 to 2 hours, other people could be closed from the aerospace. >> the red rash that starts on the face and spreads, but symptoms are similar to a cold, fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes. officials want to remind people what measles looks like. >> and be on the look out for any new individuals who may have symptoms. >> trying to avoid the outbreak or death that measles can cause. >> it's only prudent to notify everybody and let everybody know who was on b.a.r.t. last week that this occurred. >> reporter: since it takes a week or more to develop symptoms, now is the time meetils might show up. student behind all this is recovering but not back to school. the only other case was from asia. uc students are urged but not

required to get their childhood immunizations before attending. reporting live in el cerito, channel 2 news. more details on measles vaccinations. ten years ago, 19% had all the required imizations started kindergarten. the numbers are compiled by the california department of public health. and a new state law went into effect on the first of this month making it more difficult for students to skip vaccinations. >> they can only claim a no vaccination because of belief if they have a signed note from their doctor. and a 6th person has died so far this flu season in san mateo county, and of those six people, five had underlying medical conditions. also, five of the six fatal

cases were confirmed as h1n1 u also known as swine flew. thousands of people are hospitalized with the flu. and school tons were recovered from the bottom of -- and earlier this month, skeletal bones were found. the coroner's office now says the remains may belong to a person who's car was found parked on the bridge with its engine running 21 years ago at lake sonoma. a casterville man was killed when a piece of heavy equipment fell on him. the vehicle was a mechanic at voel voe -- volvo construction equipment when it slipped off its safety stand. we're told he died instantly. it took fire crews sometime to stabilize the seven-ton piece of

equipment to reach him. safety cal osha inspectors are investigating into what happened. and crews are fixing a busted sewage line, and it's flowing into the russian river. the district says drinking water has not been effected, but people are being asked to minimize use. repair should be complete late tonight or tomorrow. >> a major court ruling today overturned a key provision of the state's gun laws. a three judge panel, the federal appeals court in san francisco truck down california concealed weapons rule. and as ktvu stevenson says this violated the right to bear arms. >> reporter: a 9th circuit court of appeals today ruled california must allow law

abiding citizens to carry firearms in public. the challenge the nra brought against california and not to defend one's self, to on obtain a concealed weapons permit through their county. >> we determined it was setting a barrier that was unconstitutionally high. you can't require a special need under the amendment. if you want a permit just to defend yourself. >> it's disappointing and i think here in california, that we'll seek to appeal from that decision. i think here if san francisco, where we have a very objective process that takes the applicant into complete consideration, i don't think it's going to change our process here. >> lawyers for the nra says the, it hasn't deturred criminals

from doing ram d random crimes. >> when people have weapons, they intend to use them against other people, intentionally or not, a life is taken as a result. >> today's ruling as a result of a lawsuit filed by a man denied of a concealed gun permit. david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. more details. today's rule suggest on hold pending an -- ruling is on hold pending an appeal. retirements can differ from county to county, but the standard requirements issued by the california department of justice include the completion of mandatory firearms and mandatory testing. and this video was taken by a passenger in late january. it's got more than 16,000 hits since it was posted on you tube.

it shows a confrontation at the san bruno station in which a b.a.r.t. police officer tells him to get off the b.a.r.t. train. the chief says its policy allows the use of a stun gun if someone poses an immediate threat. >> an officer doesn't have to be punched before he uses his taser or his tools on his equipment belt. >> he allegedly talked to a woman on the train. the woman blogged about the experience saying, quote, i was never concerned about my safety. if i really felt worried, i would have moved. he pleaded no charges of being drunk and disorderly and served 15 days. a hired security guard shot and wounded a suspected burglar today. police say the guard spotted what he believed to be two

burglars making off with tvs and a telescope from a home on water house road in the upper diamond district. at one point, the burglar came at him with a screwdriver. the guard shot him in the leg. he was arrested. the other man, the victim was, he was arrested. the other man got away. the neighborhood stipulated when it hired the security company that the guards would be allowed to carry guns. still today's shooting raises questions about the use of deadly force and whether everyone is comfortable with armed guards patrolling their neighborhood. paul has more. >> reporter: frank, georgia state, there are more reactions. i even talked to them asking if they should be allowed to carry guns. some say yes, some say no somewhere pleased that security guard stood up. others say it went a little too far. >> annie is talking about the

incident involving a guard from security code three, the operations manager of the private security and patrol which has armed and unharmed guards. they were first hired by oakland hills. >> the security guard want to act like the police and they are not police. >> he feels for the guard from security code three, but he instructs his guards not to confront a would be criminal. the description of the suspect, call the police department. >> security business is basically observe and report. unfortunately, sometimes things escalate that be beyond our control and self-defense comes into play. >> we spoke with resident who is pay for patrols by security patrol 3. the guard's actions were necessary. >> i'm really glad that we're getting our money's worth. we're getting what we anticipated getting. and i think that's really great.

>> one year resident says it is necessary. he's installed his own security system. a few weeks ago, it wasn't enough. his home was burglarized. they are a detourant, it could cause more problems. >> people get comfortable with private security force and when it comes time to up tack it for more police they're not going to want to do that. >> companies about liability, they carry their own insurance to cover such situations. live from oakland, paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. at least 22 deaths are being blamed on that massive storm. travel problems and hundreds of school closures. one city that did not cancel school was new york city. the mayor decided to keep the nearly 1,500 schools open and he defended his decision saying kids are better off at school. in new jerseys some students attended school online because all their snow days had been

used up. also today more than 6,000 flights were canceled at airports from virginia to maine. the storm dumped so much snow in the washington d.c. area, the airports of completely shut down. >> three days to celebrate with your sweet heard from flowers and -- sweetheart from flowers, to the all important reservation. we'll show you how the bay area is celebrating a weekend of love. >> a double dose of fog. i'll point out the trouble spots. >> and california has a

nurses staged a noisy protest at the hospital's berkley campus this afternoon. they're violating state mandated patient to nurse ratio. this is the latest demonstration that they say they have fewer patients than in the hapt and is trying to make -- hospital and is trying to make the hospital financially healthy. the roll out of a new state computer database creating thousands of problems for

nursing school graduates. >> many are scared of their jobs. department of consumer affairs told samuel merit nursing school in oakland it could take more than a month to resolve the problems and the glitch could impact other boards, as well. he just got his nursing degree and was thrilled when he landed a cardiac icu job. >> they need my nursing license by friday, march 14th. >> the only problem is he hasn't taken the licensing exam to become a registered nurse because the state nursing board has not processed his application and giving him authorization to take the test putting his job in jeopardy. >> i take them at their word the offer will be rescinded. >> the department of consumer affairs which handles the board of nursing and learned how big their backlog is. >> we're talking about 4,000 applications pending. it's going to take us at least

probably about 90 days to handle those applications. >> spokesman russ heimerich rolled out the breeze extension. after discovering last minute glitches, the department decided to launch it without that page. >> a report staff are having to enter that information themselves and it's just -- it's slowing things down. >> the dean of samuel merit nursing school says that doesn't help her graduates. >> to choose the largest department within the department of consumer affairs, the largest board probably wasn't the wisest way to approach it. >> that's a shame if we get interviews and we're still waiting on our results. >> by the end of 2015, 1 state lawmaker requested an independent audit. >> my audit seeks to find

answers as to what the areas of failure are and how can we avoid these mistakes in the future. whatever the problems are, we want to make sure they're fixed before the next roll out. >> reporter: anyone with questions should call the department of consumer affairs and they plan to add ten additional staff member to the current 18 to try and speed up the processing of applications. live in oakland, janet katsyama, channel 2 news. we want to hear from you if you have an e-mail 2 investigates @ ktvu.com. a burgundy vehicle pulled up in vacaville. detectives got out and one had a semiautomatic handgun. they ordered the victims to hand overall of their money and ended up getting away with a $1,800 in cash -- away with $1,800 in cash that victim his hoped to spend

at the car auction. today, nearly two years after sierra lamar disappeared without a trace, the suspect in the case finally answered to charges of murder and kidnapping. the case is finally moving forward after a grand jury indictment this week. in ktvu's robert honda was in -- handa was in court for today's proceedings. wearing the red shoes, volunteers spent two years searching for the teenager gathered at the san jose hall of justice today. they came to watch garcia torres get charged with the murder and kidnapping after the jury indictment tuesday. >> he always gives us a sideways glance. we're happy that he looks over and sees we're always there in solidarity for the family. >> mr. garcia torres pleads not guilty. >> there was a trial date set for march 10th. the judge will decide on the transcripts and a new trail date

on april 16th. legal analysts points out transcripts reveal what the prosecution showed the grand jury, something the defense has not seen. >> many need to know that before they can decide what their strategy or approach might be. >> investigators have said undisclosed dna evidence was found in torres's car and it must be solid evidence to proceed in a murder case woud a body. the district attorney -- without a body. the district attorney expressed confidence in this case. >> that's simply a question we need to answer for the jury and we'll do that. sierra's father told me he's had enough of torres and his silence. >> maybe that speaks louder than him talking, the fact that he's not talking. >> torres asked if he was welling to give up his right to a speedy trial being held without bail. robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. and we want to let you know roberts twitter followers got a moment by moment description as

he live tweeted the proceedings. you can follow the reporters @ ktvu news on twitter. three former california governor's are backing a ballot measure to speed up the death penalty in this case. the effort was announced today. the appeals process for more than 700 prisoners currently on death row take too much time. >> old age should not be the leading cause of death on death row. but it literally has been. >> the proposition would limit death row appeals, and also cut costs by housing two condemned prisoners and require death row inmates to work at prison jobs in order to pay restitution to victims. california has not had an execution since 2006 because of problems with the lethal injection protocol. yi sides said more than a year that he planned to run once

he's termed out of office this year. he represents san francisco and san mateo. one of his goals is to expand to the blot box and make government more transparent. a lot of clouds out there. i've got the radar spinning. we're going to see plenty of fog around the bay. this is your friday morning commute. i've got sprinkles and drizzles down around pacifica. and as we get into noon time, you get a little bit of clearing and you get into the afternoon commute, partly cloudy, mostly sunny in the san jose area. this is tomorrow. as we head into saturday, real weather system loads up and it's heading our way saturday night into sunday morning. i'll have all the details and the timing on that. we'll see you back here.

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six new police officers were sworn in today in antioch. the new recruits are experienced officers who have been working in other cities. so why are they coming to antioch? rob roth with the answer. >> reporter: these new officers under went fire arms training this afternoon. the six officers may be new to antioch but not new to law enforcement. the past 13 years was spent as a patrol officer for the stockton

police department but he sees more opportunity here. >> hopefully some day i'll be promoted to sergeant. >> van is one of two new officers coming from stockton, the others came from b.a.r.t., martinez and the contra cost sheriff's office costa sheriff's office. he says he could have chosen any other large departments actively looks for experienced officers to fill their shortages. >> sometimes bigger is not better. >> antioch is making a concerted effort to recruit experienced officers looking to make a change, often highly sought after because they're already well trained. >> they come on the street, tear in a field training for a very short amount of time and then released on their own able to make a difference in reduced crime in our community. >> the help lower experienced, antioch improved its benefits and contingent salaries, topping out at about $8,300 a month.

>> the pay is competitive and the benefits are great. i have to look out for my family, so i came over here. >> new officers bring the total number in antioch to 89. that leaves 13 more open slots to fill and antioch hopes to fill them in a year. rob roth, channel 2 news. a jury in santa clara is deciding whether a convicted sex offender is considered a violent predator. he could be locked up in definitely at a state hospital of the otherwise, he'd be eligible for parole. he's served 30 years for a series of sex crimes against young men. actor ralph wade who played the popular series, the waltons, has died. it featured a steady stream of roles on days of our lives and ncis. he'll be best remembered as the

strong father figure of john walton senior. the manager said he died at his home near palm springs. he was 86 years old. and organic farms, how they may effect your next carton of milk. and water districts, letting water go to waste, the efforts to plug

p at the google play store or itunes. california could become the first state to require warning labels on sodas and other sugary

drinks. there was a bill today any product would display a warning that it contributes to diabetes and obesity and tooth decay. the legislation already has the support of medical groups. and facebook is using more options to identify gender. when users fill out the basic information page they're now being given options beyond male and female. in fact, about 50 different terms are listed, such as androgenous, and too spirit, and the user can choose not to identify a gender. it works with the lgbt community to come up with the new gender categories. positive news on corporate earnings sent stocks higher. the dow industrials was up 63 points pushing it above the 16,000 mark. with california in a doubt messenger, water districts say

customers still need to cut back. tonight, 2 investigates wasted water, pipes owned by water districts themselves are leaking countless gallons of perfectly good drinking water. tom vacar looks into the enormous costs of repairs and the efforts to plug those leaks. >> east bay municipal utility district leaked tony mills a close by underground leak like this. the leak crew immediately calls in a repair crew, one of many such crews to do the hard, expensive work. here, under two-inches offace fault, the crew has to jack -- of asphalt, the crew has to cut out a road bed 8 to 10-inches thick. the shared back breaking digging goes on hour after hour. finally leading to the leak coming from a home service value

completely engulfed by a root which must be carefully hand carved. repair crews hand smell 3,000 leaks a year, some quickly fixed but many others, like this or worse. >> pore than half of more than 50 years -- more than half of the pipes are 50 and some of 100 years old. >> california utilities lose an average of 10% to pipe leaks. all bay area water utilities we contacted reported leakages of less than 10%. state wise, we lose 700,000 acre feet of water every year. that's a football sized fish tank 132 miles tall. consumer advocates food and water watch say it's way too much. >> so 7,000 acre feet is about what los angeles and san francisco use combined every year. >> in alameda, east bay mud is

replace it would go miles of pipelines almost 100 years old. it's just two of ten it replaces yearly. of the 4,200 pipelines, about 100 miles have been identified as needing replacement. that costs two and a half million dollars a mile, in other words, 100 miles is a quarter of $1 million that rate payers would have to foot. >> food and water watch blames misguided federal priorities. >> in 1978, the feds were providing 78% of all the money going to pay for water infrastructure and now it's 3% and the need has dramatically increased. there's no choice in the matter. we have to fix the pipes underneath our feet. >> are californians willing to fix what it takes our systems or will we allow this to erode our

economic future? tom vacar, channel 2 news. and the drought is prompting new rules for organic farmers, and could save their livelihood. >> reporter: this is a 2,400-acre farm in petaluma, in four generations never a drought so bad. >> we've lost probably two and a half, three months of what we call free feed. >> cows produce 5,500 gallons of milk a day. he and other farmers asked for a change in federal organic rules that require 100 days of grazing within walking distance of the barn. he says there's simply not enough grass. >> if it quits raining now and the drought continues, it will be real important that they change. how will we produce organic milk? >> this afternoon a usda official told me the organic pasture rules will changed it allowing farmers to bring in

organic hay instead. >> i don't know if it changes the quality too much. it should be just for a short time depending on the drought. >> at the nearby market, organic milk is a huge seller. relaxed on rules disappointed customers. >> for her son, there really is no option. >> i still have to buy orging antic milk, right? what else are you going to buy? your own cows? >> he's already spent an extra $200,000 feeding organic hay. it may also slightly change the taste of today's milk. also, two beef cattle and sheep in california's drought areas. john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. today was the first official

day of operation for a large scale solar power plant in the mohave desert. it consists of almost 350,000 giant mirrors that stretch across fire square miles. it was conceived in the early days of the obama administration and since then interest has evaporated. the plant is owned by nrg energy, google, and bright source energy it can produce power for 140,000 homes. >> doing her part to fight the drought, what lady gaga is doing that's getting herself applause from governor brown. tracking rain toward the bay area. when the system will arrive and how light

dozens of protestors greeted california university's president janet that politan no, student groups that support the right -- governor nopalatano's tenure as the department of homeland security. he was finishing up what he called a listening tool. administers and officials say a building was closed found mercury, led, and asbestus. anyone using the building

probably didn't inhale any toxic materials. the university is planning inspect other buildings on campus. the nsa says edward snowden tricked a coworker to get access to at least some classified files. the nsa told congress snowden copied the man's password using desepz. that unnamed coworker resigned after his security access was denied. two others have had their access denied after being implicated in snowden's case and the other, an active duty of the military. and despite strong objections from the united states, the freed prisoners walked out this morning. the u.s. military said they still pose a threat and may return to fight the afghan government. some of the government of linked to attacks that killed dozens of americans and coalition members and civilians. karzi says the decision is up to afghans alone and rejected

american concerns. >> a jury if san francisco convicted an oakland man for a brute willal assault that was captured on surveillance video last june. the video shows the 28-year-old woman on the ground -- and you see what happened right there. just after someone grabbed her purse, she was kicked in the head and knocked out. today, 23-year-old christopher porter bailey was found guilty of felony robbery, assault and baltery of the he now faces up to eight years in prison are. >> the family in the east bay wants to find the person who shot their dog in the eye with a pellet gun. sid came back from a walk with a swollen eye nine days ago. when the vet took a look, there was a pellet in the dog's eye. now the family and friends are worried this shooter might shoot again. >> i would like to see this person whoever it is, come forward, and admit from their heart that they hurt someone -- you know they hurt a family, they hurt a community member, they heart a dog.

>> sid is on the steroids and antibiotics, and is doing better. police are investigating as a case of animal as a result. low income families san francisco could still be eligible for bicycles recovered by police but never claimed by their owners. right now, hundreds of bikes are sitting in a warehouse. they could be back on the streets helping folks get around. the city would hold on to stolen bikes for at least four months before givingly them away. it now moves to the full board and could be approved next month. a convenience of california's drought, the surprise some home owners are finding when they go to renew their insurance. >> and our chief meteorologist finishing off the complete bay area forecast. see when the fog's going to lift

some people are getting a head start on val en

. do you have plans for valentine's day tomorrow? suzy a cakes said tomorrow will will be their best day of the year. what's better than having a sweet treat? you can eat cake and cup cakes and cookies. >> we found one guy who shopped today for his wife and says he still has more to do tomorrow. >> i'll find some nice diamond ring somewhere or something to

make her smile and take her out to dinner. >> pretty extravagant. >> the last seating tonight at house of prime rib is at 11:00. the couples celebrating tonight is easier getting a reservation and finding parking. live in san francisco, amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. in honor of president's day, visitors are getting a free ride at national park this is weekend. the usual fee is being waived. closer to home there will be no fee charges for visiting woods. state parks are not participating. >> general motors is recalling 780,000 cars in north america because of an electrical problem. the recall effects 2005 through 2007 chevy cobalts and pontiac g 5s. it can cause the ignition switch to switch off. six people have died in 22

crashes associated with that problem. for more information on the gm recall, go to oub web with sight, ktvu.com. >> some in surers appear to be opting out of areas they to be at high risk for wildfires in this drought the award winning singer is star nothing a soon to be released public service

announcement that urges californians to conserve water. the pop star also agreed to donate $250,000 to the state park. the cool is leaking and part of the money is expected to be used to repair that leak. it got warm out there today. it was 74 degrees in antioch today. it got to 72 in morgan hill. tomorrow won't be as warm. we want to point out this moisture plumb, that atmospheric activity that we've been talking about. we're seeing rain in eureka. it's dying out a little bit but they're going to see a foot of rain in northern california by dell norte county. they're coming down pretty strong, just north of eureka. all we're looking at are a few clouds and a few sprinkles just

to the north. it was just clear and you see it under the bridge. tomorrow morning, on the bay area forecast, not as dense as this morning. look for the valley fog. a lot of it in the inland bay valleys. be ready for that if you're traveling around. the computer model keeps all the rain to the north as we go into the next 24 hours. so tomorrow, dense morning fog, a few high clouds, showers mainly north. those showers will slip south as we head into your bay area saturday afternoon, saturday evening. i'll you show you that in the computer model. hell just hit had the southern edge of our boundaries, just enough to bring some showers to the north bay late in the day. the computer model does this thursday, it's all up there, friday, saturday, and right there, saturday at 3:00. it starts to show up around you

can iia. it swings -- eukaya, swinging through about 7:00 saturday evening and there's your sunday. that's how it looks. the time will change on that. it's been all over the map. model it is aren't quite sure what it does. your saturday doesn't look bad most of the day. sunday doesn't look bad. late saturday overnight into sunday morning. your forecast highs are, 78, in gill roy. and more showers as we head into tuesday, and of course saturday we've got that chinese new year to talk about. we're watching the rainfall and concerned that maybe we'll see a little bit of showers activity at the tail end of the parade but that could all change with tomorrow's model run. so we'll watch it for you. right now the weekend looks not too bad for the weekend.

clouds and sprinkles saturday night. march madness is coming up. pretty quick, st. marys looking as though they might have their best basketball ahead of them as tournament time approaches. it didn't let their big game cloud their evening with the all time leading gayle scorer. now with the cavs. carry carter hits the 3. 11 minutes left. it's tied. james walker the 3rd driving it hard. he's fouled. gayle leads for good, but just to make sure they go on a 9-0 run. jane walker the 3rd. i love saying that. he had a career high 21 and the games do win it. spotlight game, kd in la taking on the lakers without kobe. looking good, the kobe-less

lakers actually led most of the night. and one, l.a. goes up with three minutes left, but just a little too much durant tonight. no connie to try and -- kobe to try and stop him. 43 points, nails the 3, make it a five point lead. they never look back and they are victorious as well, in l.a. meantime, it's a shot

everyone knows players do take it up a notch and that brand of basketball, the best of the magic in a regular season game and the fortune one fist oakland tonight, and lebron light it in the final seconds. they saw something very special. last night you can talk about an hour-and-a-half about this game. it was great, but that is the kappa right there. lebron, the game-winning 3, the first of his career, as far as a 3 at the buzzer goes, and all is choreographed theatrics to end it. warriors talk about it after the game and it's all lebron. >> you could try to get andre

off of it. he was just rhythm dribbling and making shots. >> we were willing to live with defense on him one-on-one. >> we look forward to the challenge. tonight was demonstrated at the fullest. >> i was going for the win the whole time and i just wanted to make sure either i made it and there was no time left or i missed with no time left and that was just my only mind-set and it was a big shot. >> yes, it was. memo, as we change the subject, brian wilson, how can you update your look? he had his beard shaved. he got a $10,000 contribution from norelco, to people who have suffered spinal cord injuries and he looks like a new man,

johnny gomes reporting live. we'll see you the next time news breaks. ktvu news begins at 4 a.m. can you catch

>> today on "tmz" -- >> drake did the most reprehensible thing. he was upset about his rolling stone cover getting pulled he said he would never get another magazine interview again. > some say he died of a drug overdose and shouldn't be celebrated for that. >> that is the stupidest point of view i ever heard. >> jerry o'connell did a mock version of this sitting with a bag over his