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panhandle. pg&e says gas is leaking from the location as well but no danger to the public. pg&e is looking into the source of that gas leak. we will bring you the latest on this situation as we get it into our newsroom. the war on terror could fund drones here in the bay area. the contra costa times reports law enforcement agencies and high risk -- in high risk areas can apply for a share of a $26 million grant from the department of homeland security. the alameda county sheriff's department, san mateo county, san francisco and san jose have all made requests for funds to purchase drones. the bay area is considered a high risk area for terrorism due to landmarks like the golden gate bridge and targets like the shell oil refinery, lawrence livermore lab and bart. new this morning, the u.s. is delaying a planned missile test as tensions rise with north korea. the ballistic missile test was scheduled to take place tuesday at vandenberg air force base in southern california but chuck hagel delayed the tests amid concerns it could heighten the
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conflict withny -- with north korea. meantime south korea's top military officer also postponing a planned visit to the u.s. the chairman of south korea's joint chiefs of staff had planned to meet with his u.s. counterpart general martin dempsey in washington later this month. but officials say south korea's military officials can't be away at a time when north korea is threatening to attack. as tensions continue to escalate, we are getting new details about the people empowering north korea. kim jong-un took over in december of 2011 but who is advising him in reporter chris lawrence took a closer look at kim jong-un's inner circle. >> north korean video shows how kim jong-un wants the world to see him. but they barely give us a peek into kim's inner circle. what are we not seeing in this video? >> the people whispering in his ear telling him -- who is he
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withholding to -- bee holding to as his key officers. >> reporter: he focused on correia. >> here we see a row of male officials and one woman. who is she? >> this is the aunt. this is the sister of kim jung- ill. >> reporter: kim young wee holds powerful positions in north korea's cabinet. they made her's four star general in 2010 and she helped transfer power from her brother to her nephew. >> she is someone who is an operator behind the scenes. >> reporter: in the most powerful -- and the most powerful woman in north korea. >> it's her husband who is the rainmaker of the kim regime. >> reporter: he led north korea's attempt to revive its economy and has extensive ties to china. he's now kim's key policy adviser. >> he's come very far in a very short period of time from 1919 to number 2. >> reporter: and he may be the closest north korea has to a reformer. >> reformer to them is anyone who deviates even slightly from
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the path, the lie. >> reporter: outside the first family, the inner circle is small. are these kim's military elite? >> no. they are gone. most of these people are gone now. >> reporter: kim purged the military veterans his father relied on and installed his own man, choe young hey is a part man -- party man, the first bureaucratic to run the military and its valuable armed services business. >> he is someone considered to be the kim jong-un's inner circle man when it comes to the military. >> that was chris lawrence reporting from washington, d.c. this morning officials in israel say a planned cyber attack did not cause major disruption. this follows warnings by the group anonymous that said it would take down the country's network. the hacking began early this morning. officials say the bureau of statistics site was down but did not say if it had been hacked. most other attacks on banks and defense sites were repelled. with the april 15th tax
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filing date fast approaching, there's some concern that the irs is going to be snooping for personal information about taxpayers online. the irs has been known to check car records, employment documents and other public records. now social media pages are on that list too. this year the agency will be using sites like facebook and twitter to catch people trying to beat the system. and that has some folks concerned. others say privacy is a personal responsibility. >> if you haven't taken the measures to actually make your facebook or twitter account private the way i have and the way i think most people have, then i think you're sort of open and sort of asking for it to some degree because that stuff is public information. >> the government says it would only check a facebook page or twitter account if there is already a red flag on a tax form. the sequester has taken a toll on families struggling to afford their rent. thousands of people in the bay area rely on rental subsidies from the government section 8 voucher program but housing authorities are now facing
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millions of dollars in budget cuts and that means less assistance is available. santa clara county's housing authority lost $21 million in funding. oakland's housing authority saw an $11 million cut, the san francisco housing authority facing a $9.4 million funding cut. the sequester also forced the cancellation of a planned jet flyover at the giants home opener, all ceremonial military flyovers were halted as of april 1st due to $41 billion in budget cuts. a fireboat in mccovey cove shot water several hundred feet into the air but many spectators at at&t park were unable to see it. the west coast's longest surviving heart transplant patient has a wish and that is to see a giants baseball game in person. 23-year-old brandon dedole received a heart transplant when he was 3 years old and right now he's at kaiser permanente in santa clara but his wish coming true. today dyboahl will be taken to
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the giants park where he will watch the giants play and after the game go back to the hospital for continuing care. 8:38. it's cool outside. i like it. it's nice. but if you look at what rosemary is forecasting for the week, it gets downright hot? >> tuesday, wednesday. >> going to be toasty out there for some of the warmest areas. we will take a look at that. >> spring, summer. >> oh, yeah. >> spring. >> when we get into wednesday, well above average in many areas. we will take a look at those numbers in just a few moments. let's take a look at what is happening now because we remain locked in this sort of dreary pattern, giving you a look there, the oakland estuary. fog reported in santa rosa along parts of the coastline from the satellite and radar not picking up on a whole lot of rain. it moved through last night into the early hours, a few sprinkles reported over the north edge of the north bay but that's been about it. this is what we are seeing right now.
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i want to pull back just a little bit and show you that the system that continues to send us these waves each day right about here is going to slide into the great basin by tomorrow. we will be done with this weather pattern by tomorrow. behind it, i'm going to back it up a little bit more, ridge of high pressure already beginning to sort of build in here. this is going to come closer to california and as it does, it's going to warm us up. temperatures are really going to soar as we get into tuesday, wednesday, thursday looks good as well. so to sum it up for you here, mostly cloudy, perhaps a sprinkle this morning. we will leave in that possibility, especially for the evening hours, i'm going to show you that futurecast model in just a moment, the better chance for those sprinkles coming tonight with a notable warmup in the extended forecast. here we are at this hour. i think we are going to be mostly cloudy for most of the day. temperatures maybe slightly cooler for the afternoon. i'll bring you those numbers in just a moment. but here we are at 3:00, still dealing with a mix of sun and clouds. by tonight, take a look at this, scattered showers in the forecast at 11:00, it's 1:00, still falling, we get into
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tomorrow morning for the morning drive. i think we are already drying out but we could see measurable rain out of that, anywhere from a few 1/100 to maybe 1/10 inch. 56 in oakland right now, 55 san rafael, 54 san francisco so not a bad start. cool with the clouds overhead. 64 for oakland this afternoon. 66 in redwood city, 63 san mateo, widespread 60s for the inner east bay as well as the north bay. your extended forecast shows you by tomorrow we are clearing out, we are drying out, we could be breezy as this ridge of high pressure begins to nudge our way. but once it settles in, temperatures are going to be on the warm side. upper 70s to low 80s in the afternoons tuesday and wednesday. i'll have a look at your giants forecast coming up. april is distracted driving month but not everyone is following the law or even needs to. according to the contra costa times, police and other emergency workers are exempt from the law and that's because they need to free up radio airtime and are already wearing radio ear pieces. school bus drivers are also
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exempt from the hands-free law but only allowed to use their phones for work-related situations. u.p.s., usps, fedex and other nonemergency workers are not exempt. like most drivers they are expected to be hands-free. a veteran fire captain from philadelphia is killed in the line of duty and we are now hearing from the city's fire commissioner. ♪ alright, let's go. ♪ ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ ♪ we, we chocolate cross over. ♪
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welcome back. live look over oakland this morning. mix of sun, clouds, light winds and temperatures around the bay area this morning holding in the 50s. firefighters in philadelphia are mourning the loss of one of their own for the third time in less than a year. the captain in the department was killed while fighting a fire at a fabric store last night. the roof of the three story building collapsed underneath him. almost one year ago two other firefighters in philadelphia were killed also fighting a fire. >> we will be remembering during a memorial for two firefighters who lost their lives on april the 9th just last year. so we are asking for prayers for all the entire department. >> a colleague who tried to save the firefighter was burned on his hands but is expected to survive. evangelical pastor rick warren is asking followers to
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pray for his family following the death of his son. yesterday 27-year-old matthew warren took his own life at his mission viejo home. his father says he suffered from depression and mental illness. rick warren is a controversial pastor known for his strong views against same-sex marriage and abortion. he delivered the the evocation of president obama. the daughter says her father would not have supported gun control measures. >> a lot of the media has taken this as a stand for more gun control and that is absolutely disrespectful to their memory because that's not what they would have wanted. he was a very good advocate for being able to protect yourself and your family. >> kristina former's mother was also killed. the death came less than three months after an assistant prosecutor in the same texas office was gunned down. the deaths have led to increased security for justice officials and nationwide. officials believe a white power gang called the aryan brotherhood of texas may be responsible for the deaths.
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former president bill clinton and his daughter chelsea urging students to make a difference with their lives. >> it's clear that your generation has been sobered up by this global financial crisis and there was an astonishing amount of how to do more with less. >> clinton made the comments at the clinton global initiative university which brought together 1000 students to brainstorm solutions to problems at home as well as abroad. jack dorseys the founder of twitter and square also spoke at the forum. stephen colbert interviewed the president before the crowd for his show. thousands of patients in ontario canada finding out their chemotherapy doses were diluted. over the past week hospitals have been contacting the patients and telling them their chemo was watered down with saline. one couple in canada is now dealing with the news that they both received diluted treatments. >> it just kind of throws you right back into where you were because we don't know what the
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next steps are, we don't know what's in store for us. >> they say they received a letter last thursday about the mishap. the couple has not been able to speak with their oncologists but say they want answers. ontario's premiere has promised to launch an investigation into the diluted drugs. new details emerging about the oklahoma dentist's office at the center of a public health scare. state investigators are now revealing that among the many violations the doctor would wrap his instruments in cloth diapers and then transport them between his offices. they say that's particularly dangerous because that is how equipment can get contaminated. officials say as many as 7000 patients could have been exposed to hiv or hepatitis during a visit to the dentist's office. the state board of dentistry says it is seeking criminal charges against the doctor but warned their investigation could take a long time. as many as 450 people in new york have been exposed to the hepatitis a virus from eating at a restaurant called alta. friday the new york city health department warned of the
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possible exposure at that restaurant. people who visited the eatery between march 23rd and april 2nd are at risk. patrons may have been exposed from eating a dessert made by an infected worker. management is cooperating with the investigation and they say about 3000 people visited that restaurant during the dates in question. students at a massachusetts middle school will receive free lunches next week after being told they couldn't eat. last week 25 of the middle school students were not served lunch. food service employees say it's because their prepaid accounts ran low. parents were outraged, say their kids came home crying because they weren't given lunch. four of the employees have been fired. all students will receive three days of free lunches and the school is hosting a barbecue for students and families. this weekend washington state governor jay inslee is surveying the damage from a massive landslide on whidbey island. people living in 34 homes were forced to evacuate after a 1000- foot chunk of the hillside gave way. most say their insurance policies do not cover damage
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from landslides. >> enormous movement of earth and whatever you have seen on television, it's a lot bigger in person. but it's inspiring to see what the whidbey community has done to come together. >> no one was hurt during this slide. at least eight homes are seriously damaged or considered unstable. more than 200 emergency responders from all over the bay area are taking part in training exercises this weekend and in south san francisco those exercises are testing the region's readiness for a major earthquake that would cause buildings to collapse and leave dozens injured. the exercises are also helping agencies respond to chemical and biological threats. >> basically be doing extra indications -- extrications, search, rescues of live victims and then also simulate those victims have been exposed to chemical, biological or radioactives. >> several search and rescue dogs are also taking part in those exercises. some east bay residents now more prepared in case of an emergency thanks to the american red cross.
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yesterday participants got free lessons in basic first aid, hands only cpr and disaster preparedness. the event was called save a life saturday. organizers also gave out emergency preparedness kits, a collection of items that can help people survive the aftermath of an earthquake or other natural disaster. tsa agents found 2 1/2 pounds of meth on a passenger at the modesto airport. they say he was hiding it in his pants along with 3 ounces of cocaine. it is the second time someone has been caught trying to smuggle drugs out of the modesto airport. police say drug smugglers may be targeting smaller airports because fewer tsa agents are on duty. >> they were sharp enough to discover what was going on, they took the time to do a proper search and they located these narcotics before he got on the plane. >> the passenger who is from fresno is now facing drug smuggling charges. scandinavian airlines is launching a new route at sfo. starting tomorrow people will be able to fly nonstop between san francisco and copenhagen.
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it will be the only airline to fly nonstop between the two cities. the airline is expecting 125,000 passengers per year on that route. the google translate feature has reached a new milestone. the mountain view based company says google translate is now doing a record 1 billion translations a day. it can translate in 65 languages and can be used on websites with speech recognition and as a cell phone app. one of a kind auction starts next week in new york and it will feature never seen before items from some of the history's biggest names. and another round of mostly cloudy skies, spotty showers are in the forecast for today but we do have a warmup on the horizon. i'll have a look at what you can expect for your sunday and the extended forecast.
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the powerball game coming to california tomorrow and lottery lovers say they are getting fired up. the game has been a nationwide sensation and was unanimously approved by the california lottery commission and at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow people can start buying tickets. it's a $2 ride and a jackpot and starts at $40 million. >> looked like people of california going to have a greater chance of winning this lottery than the last lottery that we had so i'm encouraging people to get out and play because i think it's going to be a big thing going here in the state of california. >> i'm pretty excited over it. i'm for sure going to play. >> california powerball ad
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creator says they are not just trying to sell tickets, they are trying to inspire a movement. in addition to launching on monday, powerball is sponsoring a traveling display of the red ball project. the art exhibit started 10 years ago and has been seen all across the globe. the purpose of the ball is to invite spectators to use their imaginations. the big red ball currently in san francisco and will be moving around the city for the next three days. a baseball card was auctioned this weekend for a record setting $2.1 million making it the most valuable baseball card in history. the card is from 1909 and is of pittsburgh pirate honus wagner. wagner cards are the most coveted of all baseball collectibles because fewer than 60 exist and the cards were handed out in packs of cigarettes. they were, however, eventually pulled because wagner is said to have forced those cards to be recalled because he didn't want children to smoke. breathless, it leaves me
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feeling breathless. >> next week a new york gallery will unveil never before seen items from some of his it tree's biggest icons. that includes marilyn monroe, ernest hemingway and thomas edison. the exhibit will also show photos of mussolini and adolf hitler, a gift to hitler from mussolini's staff. there is also a letter from president eisenhower to his wife describing his challenges fighting nazi, germany. >> one line says god i hate the germans. it's so difficult, so hard to win. >> some of the items are expected to sell for about $50,000. that includes edison's first patent application for the lightbulb and a profanity laced letter from john lennon to paul and linda mccartney. one of the oldest items is a 1786 letter from president george washington. >> very cool right there. warm weather on the way but first we got to get through this next 24 hours. let's check in with rosemary to see why. rosemary. >> good morning to you.
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and today not so bad. partly sunny skies, temperatures warming back into the 60s for the afternoon, right now widespread 50s outside our door. the winds are light. little bit of drizzle, a few light sprinkles a possibility for today and that will be about it. we'd like to see more rain. we are just not going to get it. we are looking at temperatures beginning to warm up as early as tomorrow. if you're going out to see the giants play, again, mid to upper 50s in san francisco right now and then low 60s for the afternoon. the rest of the bay area, a lot like yesterday, 67 in livermore, 66 in concord, slightly cooler in areas right around santa rosa and napa, down to the south bay 67, san jose leaving in a slight possibility of maybe a few sprinkles overhead but not enough to ruin your outdoor plans for sure. bring along the light jacket because we will be cool with those clouds out there. by tomorrow, mostly clear skies, our pattern begins to change and with that change will come breezy conditions in some areas so we may see that for monday but by tuesday the winds lighten up and the
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temperatures soar, upper 70s to low 80s tuesday, wednesday, slightly cooler on thursday. back to the desk. two people shot after officers opened fire in san francisco. we are going to go live to the scene where police say a replica handgun could have led to that shooting. and new reaction from secretary of state john kerry on the death of a 25-year-old u.s. diplomate killed in afghanistan this weekend.
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we are live in san francisco's mission district where police are still investigating an overnight officer-involved shooting right after the bars closed. we will tell you what one neighbor thinks about the night life in this area. and an overnight fight in a parking lot escalates in concord. now one man is facing murder charges. and a san francisco rock 'n roll half marathon underway in the city and the first runners should be crossing the finish line right about now. complete bay area news coverage continues. this is ktvu mornings on 2. good morning and welcome to mornings on 2. it is sunday, april 7th. i'm claudine wong. >> good morning, everyone. i'm mike mibach. get a quick check with rosemary on the sunday forecast. good morning, rosemary. >> good morning to you. we will be tied into this pattern for one more day. we are waking up with a little bit of fog over santa rosa along the coastline this morning, mostly cloudy skies, perhaps patches of drizzle falling out there. the radar not showing a whole
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lot. we will have a chance for a few light sprinkles throughout the day. although we will be mainly dry. i do see our best chance coming tonight. i'm going to show you that future forecast model and i have a warmup in the extended forecast. back to you. another officer-involved shooting in the bay area. this time in san francisco's mission district. ktvu's lorraine blanco joining us live now from the scene with more on what police say led up to this shooting. lorraine. >> reporter: mike, i just talked with a man who was here when the fight started. he was too afraid to be on camera but he did tell us that it started at a bar that is just about a block from here on valencia. it's called the elbow room and he said it was hip hot night and the two groups of men were yelling and screaming as they got out of the bar and when they got to this corner over here, one man pulled out a firearm. now, police describe a similar scene, they say after 2:00 a.m. two groups of people got into an argument. one man pulled out what looked like a gun, so a few people ran to the mission police station across the street and flagged down officers. when officers got near the scene, they saw the suspect
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pointing the firearm at someone else. one officer discharged his weapon hoping to protect the people in the area. the suspect's gun turned out to be a replica firearm. one neighbor tells us he'd like to see a bigger police presence in the mission, especially on weekend nights. >> i think it would be a great idea to be able to go out in the evening and not have to worry about whether or not you're going to be involved in a shooting that has nothing really to do with you. people, they are not familiar that this neighborhood also has like a sort of a crime problem in general. >> reporter: and this was the scene at san francisco general hospital where those two people were taken. the two people shot by the officer have life threatening injuries. police are looking into whether the incident is gang related. it's unknown why the suspect was carrying a replica gun. reporting live in san francisco, lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. >> this is the 18th officer- involved shooting in just in a little bit over a month. besides the one we told you about in san francisco, two
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others happened last week in oakland. on friday police opened fire on a burglary suspect in west oakland who they say was carrying a fake weapon that looked like a glock handgun. the man was shot in the shoulder and is expected to survive. a 16-year-old boy was also shot in the face by oakland police wednesday after being mistaken for an armed robbery suspect. the teen was treated at the hospital for injuries to his jaw and released. the teen's family says it plans to sue the officer and the city. and a few days before that, an officer-involved shooting reported in napa. it happened during an altercation between the suspect and narcotics officers. police say the officer had his gun drawn and shot the suspect in the chest when he was attacked. take a look again at the numbers. over the past 40 days there have been five officer-involved shootings in alameda county, four in san francisco, four in san jose, two in contra costa county, two in napa county and one in sonoma. caltrain service fully restored following a fuel leak
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that forced service between san bruno and south san francisco to be suspended overnight. 700 gallons of fuel spilled after a train hit a piece of medal de-- metal debris on the tracks. crews worked through the night to clear that debris. >> the locomotive struck a piece of metal debris. it was about 3 feet long and shaped like a tube. >> officials say the fuel does not pose a threat to the environment. in overnight news, at least 10 cars in an overflow parking lot near the oracle arena in oakland, last night the arena hosted pop 2013 a popular rave concert and then early this morning as rave goers were returning to their vehicles, around a dozen parking spots were covered with glass, all of those damaged cars were parked in an overflow parking lot near bart on 73rd avenue. we have learned a man who was shot and killed in oakland friday night was a former photographer for the oakland tribune. the gunman opened fire at a valero gas station at seminary avenue and macarthur boulevard
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near mills college. 54-year-old lionel ray fluker was driving home from the gym when he was hit by a stray bullet. police say the intended target was critically wounded. fluker worked as a freelance photographer for the oakland tribune for more than a decade covering some of the biggest stories. yesterday in a symbolic effort to honor him, someone tied film to a pole. >> the most important thing about him was his love for life, oakland and his family. and i hope that the rest of us can live our lives the same way. >> fluker's 20-year-old daughter attends college in atlanta. so far police have not made any arrests. one man in police custody this morning after a fatal shooting in concord. police say around 8:30 last night two men got into a fight on mccasa court off monument boulevard. that fight quickly escalated into a shooting. 25-year-old brentwood resident eesh resident -- he is being charged with first-degree
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murder. new this morning, secretary of state john kerry is mourning the death of a u.s. diplomate killed in afghanistan. >> anne was everything that is right about our foreign service, she was smart and capable, committed to our country. i had the privilege of meeting her and mr. prime minister just a few days ago. >> 25-year-old anne smedinghoff one of six americans who died in attacks yesterday in the country. during a visit with u.s. consulate workers in istanbul kerry says her death is a grim reminder of the dangers facing foreign service workers. she is the first u.s. diplomate to die on the job since the september 11th attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi libya. the u.s. ambassador to libya chris stevens and three other americans were killed in that attack. stevens was a graduate of piedmont high school, uc berkeley and u.s. hastings college of -- uc hastings college of law in san francisco. it's a gray start out
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there, giving you a live look from e-mailville towards the -- emeryville, san francisco, back drop. santa rosa reporting visibility down to a couple miles, half moon bay reporting visibility three to 6 miles. you can see here on our screen a lot of gray, not a lot of green, not seeing any radar returns this morning. maybe a little bit of drizzle falling below that radar that just swept through. 60 degrees in oakland, 57 sfo, 56 degrees san francisco, now 60 degrees in antioch so some of our temperatures gradually climbing under the mostly cloudy skies, partly sunny and as we get into the afternoon i think this is what we will continue to see, just a slim chance, maybe a light shower, mainly dry conditions. this system continuing right about here but it's going to be pushing east. by tomorrow it's going to slide into the great basin. right behind it ridge of high pressure going to build in. that's going to warm us up. i think by tuesday, wednesday our temperatures are going to be anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees above what we get
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today. a good 10 to 15 degrees above the seasonal average. so here we are this morning with the mostly cloudy skies, just a few sprinkles peppered throughout the area. by noontime really begin to dry out, into the afternoon i think we are going to be with partly to mostly cloudy skies, dry conditions, here we are 4:00 seeing a few breaks here, so partly sunny, partly cloudy over the north bay. now settle into sunday night and we are getting ready to maybe head to bed and here come another and last round maybe of showers here. into 1:00 still coming down, could pick up a few 1/100 out of that. monday morning drying out. patchy fog could be a possibility. but i do expect we may see a wind pickup tonight into tomorrow as well as our pattern transitions. that will help to clear out the fog. 65 expected for today, 63 in berkeley, 64 for oakland, 64 in hayward, temperatures slightly cooler this afternoon than yesterday in many areas.
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many of us about where we were yesterday, 67 san jose as well as los gatos. extended forecast, pattern begins to switch tonight into tomorrow with a ridge of high pressure building in quickly behind that system. that's going to kick up the winds, especially along the coast as well as the hills may have a little bit of patchy fog but again that wind will inhibit some of the fog if we do get it early on. by the afternoon, we are partly cloudy and then we really see temperatures soar into tuesday, wednesday, thursday, widespread upper 70s to low 80s. tuesday and wednesday look to be the warmest days, slightly cooler on thursday. back to the desk. at 9:09 happening now, more than 5500 runners from 45 states and 15 countries are taking part in the rock 'n roll half marathon in san francisco this morning. we got these pictures from organizers. this is a look at some of the rock 'n rollers running that race. they look like they are having a good time. and here is a look at the start line near fort mason in venice.
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runners took off at 7:00 this morning and they are making their way across the golden gate bridge. you can see some of them still crossing. we have seen a steady stream of runners all morning long. they go across the bridge then head back to the aquatic park area. there are cheerleaders and bands along the course to encourage runners with a large concert at the end of the race. here's a look at the route map so if you are driving in that area, you should know that you could run into some closures and delays. some roads are actually going to be closed until 1:00 p.m. and it is a big day for the cal women's basketball team. the number 2 seed golden bears making their first final four appearance and they will take on the five seed louisville cardinals. the game starts at 3:00 think this afternoon. pappy's on telegraph avenue in berkeley is hosting a watch party. well, a wrecking ball heading towards a pleasant hill icon. the efforts to save the dome movie theater and what will soon be taking its place. the final 24 hours of oscar grant's life is headed to the silver screen and you may be able to catch it earlier than
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panhandle, pg&e says gas is leaking from the location as well but that there is no danger to the public at this time. pg&e is looking into the source of that gas leak. four teenagers are home safe this morning after being rescued off mount umunhum by a helicopter. about 5:30 last night a chp airplane looking for the teenagers. they were spotted on the west side of the mountain. a rescue helicopter was then called in and pulled out. the four teenagers, none were injured. a family of five rescued from their submerged suv friday are from livermore. law enforcement officials say the family was driving on highway 50 when their suv hit a tree and crashed right into the american river in el dorado county. a kayaker spotted the vehicle and helped three children get to safety. nearby firefighters were able to rescue the parents. all five were taken to the hospital to be treated for their injuries. in los angeles, the cause of a commuter train crash being investigated. 13 people were hurt yesterday when a metro link train crashed into a dump truck on the
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tracks. the impact caused the truck to flip over but the driver was not seriously hurt. 190 people were on the train when it crashed. >> again, just complaining of pain injuries, no broken bones that i'm aware of, no serious injuries. >> a metro link spokesperson said the gates were working at the time of the crash and the train was traveling at the posted speed limit. police are still trying to positively identify the body of a man found in a carson city river but they believe it could be nevada's missing chief insurance examiner. the body found in the river on saturday. police believe it could be william mccune who has been missing since thursday. police suspect foul play based on evidence found in mccune's apartment. but they are still trying to make a positive identification and determine a cause of death. >> i hope that we are able to put some information together soon for the public because i understand that reason why is actually part of the healing process. >> investigators say a break in the case came when some items
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belonging to mccune were pawned in reno and north las vegas. four suspects in their early 20s have been arrested. the search still on in marin county for a suspected car thief who escaped from deputies on friday. law enforcement officials say the suspect threatened to kill deputies when they tried to stop him in petaluma two days ago, he eventually drove to woodacre where he fled on foot. sometime that night 2 miles from where police were searching, a blue 2009 blue toyota highlander was stolen. police believe the suspect may have fled in that stolen vehicle and could be headed to the san jeronimo valley. 160 pounds, 5'8 tall with black hair or hair that's pulled back perhaps in a ponytail. a warning from fremont police after a woman said she was assaulted during a home break-in. it happened after 7:00 on thursday night while the woman was cleaning a home on spezia terrace. the woman told police she was upstairs when a man grabbed her from behind. she broke away, ran outside and told neighbors to call 911.
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she described the man to police as someone in his 30s with a medium complexion, 5'8 and about 165 pounds. he has black hair, cut in a bowl shape and was wearing dark clothing. the wounds from last year's oikos university shooting may still be raw but for some last night's memorial concert helped continue the healing process. ♪[ music ]♪ >> the event was held in honor of the seven people shot and killed at oikos university in oakland last april 2nd. university officials say none of the victims' families attended because their grief and sadness is still too strong. many of the concert musicians are part of the korean american community which was deeply affected by the shootings. they say it was important to take part in last night's performance. >> it is very special concert for us and everyone write down all the meaning of the song and, you know, they really -- when they sing the song,
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really meant it. >> donations were collected at last night's performance for the families of the seven people killed in the shooting. crews have started working on a memorial playground in honor of a child who was killed in a sandy hook shooting. the playground is in union beach new jersey and will be named after 6-year-old jack pinto. that playground is one of 26 being built as part of the sandy ground project where angels play. they will all be in areas devastated by superstorm sandy. each playground will be named after one of the 26 children and educators who were gunned down in december. in pleasant hill an effort underway to save an old movie theater from being demolished. about a dozen people stood out the center arts theater yesterday afternoon. the box office will close two weeks from today because the theater is being replaced with a sporting goods store. the theater opened back in 1967 with its signature dome shape and many people just don't want to see it go. >> something that's beloved by a lot of people, there's a lot of potential for this to be an important historical and cultural resource for the area.
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>> the developer already has a demolition permit and the sporting good store is expected to open in 10 months. the movie based on the shooting death of oscar grant will be released sooner than planned. >> you guys got plans for the night? >> yeah, nothing major though. i meet up with the fellas, head out to the city. >> why you take the train out there? >> fruitvale follows grant's last 24 hours before his death at the fruitvale bart station. the movie supposed to be released in october but now open in limited theaters on july 26th. fruitvale inspired early oz car buzz when it debuted at the sundance film festival in january. program designed to provide identification cards for undocumented immigrants. the cards would also serve as prepaid debit cards for oakland residents who do not have access to banking services but the cards have been controversial. consumer advocates say they come with fees that are higher
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than other prepaid debit cards on the market. thousands took to the streets in two u.s. cities this weekend to call for immigration reform. ♪[ music ]♪ >> members of congress and religious leaders joined a crowd of 2000 at a rally in new jersey. more than 700 people also marched for immigration reform in boston. organizers say the rallies are intended to put pressure on congress to pass legislation providing a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. congress may be close to doing that but that process to get citizenship could take at least 15 years. a bill right now in the house would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to get a work permit after paying fines and back taxes and undergoing a criminal background check. after 10 years, immigrants could apply for a green card, then citizenship after another five years. a senate bill also calls for a 10-year wait for a green card followed by a three-year wait for citizenship. singer beyonce and her
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husband jay-z could be facing backlash from the government and it's all because of where they chose to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. weatherwise a little change in store for your sunday, mostly cloudy skies, slight chance for a few showers. i'll have your sunday time line and the extended forecast coming up. the only thing we'd ever grown together was a record collection. no. there was that fuzzy stuff on the gouda. [ both ] ugh! when it came to our plants... we were so confused. how much is too much water? too little? until we got miracle-gro moisture control. it does what basic soils don't by absorbing more water so it's
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one of hollywood's most famous power couples may be in trouble with the government after taking a trip to cuba. last week beyonce and her husband jay-z were photographed in havana. two republican lawmakers want the treasury department to look into the couple's vacation. the trip marks their fifth wedding anniversary. one south african man taking to the skies to honor former south african president nelson mandela. yesterday under the power of 200 helium balloons, matt silver-vallance floated up from robin island. this is where mandela spent 18 of his 27 years as a political
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prisoner. the flight took place a few hours before mandela was released from the hospital. vallance said he was inspired by the former leader. >> ultimately the risk that we are taking here it's all very controlled and the risks compared to what nelson mandela took were tiny. >> the balloon flight was to raise money for the nelson mandela's children's fund. the goal of the charity is to build a children's hospital in johannesburg to be named after a 94-year-old mandela. this is video of nelson mandela being released from the hospital yesterday morning. he was being treated for pneumonia. the former president has been dealing with respiratory problems since contracting tuberculosis in prison. he is now going to get care at home. this was his third trip to the hospital since december. a pennsylvania baseball team celebrating this baseball season by going bald. after yesterday's game, players with temple owls stepped up to the plate and shaved their
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heads. it was all part of a charity event called base bald. all the money raised goes to fund childhood cancer research. it was started by coach ryan wheeler who lost his father to lung cancer three years ago. >> it really puts things in perspective, you know, when we are playing a baseball game and trying to win or lose, to see children have to suffer like that, it would just be -- it's beyond words. >> before yesterday's event, players set up a web page asking for donations. so far they have raised more than $2500 and are still looking for more. this afternoon the san francisco giants will receive those world championship rings out at the ballpark. buster posey adding to his own hardware collection yesterday. the home crowd on its feet after posey was handed the most valuable player award. hunter penn showing how it's done, deep to right center. second big boy of the young season. next inning pablo sandoval digging that one out for an rbi
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hit. giants in front but in the fifth cards score three. giants go on to lose that game 6-3. oakland on the road in houston and playing pretty good baseball, top of the fourth, cocoa crisp, a little crack of the bat showing a little power with his opposite field shot. as would have three home runs in the game. all tied at three, top of the sixth we go, derek norris taking that 1-2 pitch to right center. as would take the lead and get even more. as six, astros three. back from suspension bartolo colon gets the win and there are your first place oakland as early in the season but first place. >> i will take it. that's the place to stay in throughout the rest of the season. 9:26. shaping up to be a pleasant day, right, rosemary? not a lot of sunshine but not too cold. >> not too bad out there. temperatures back into the 60s for the afternoon. right now 50s to near 60 degrees, partly sunny skies, patches of drizzle and fog reported around parts of the bay area, santa rosa will be
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mostly cloudy for the afternoon. the latter part of the day, sun setting about 7:40 this afternoon into the evening, 64 in oakland for the afternoon, 61 in san francisco. if you're going to see the giants play, 66 redwood city, upper 60s san jose or maybe you're going to the rock 'n roll half marathon finish line party out there for the afternoon, clearing out tomorrow, breezy especially for the coast and the hills as a new pattern begins to build in and that new pattern is going to bring us a warming trend. upper 70s to low 80s by midweek wednesday, not going to last too long but we are going to remain mild through thursday and perhaps all the way into the weekend. overnight lows will remain in the 40s. >> doesn't give us much to complain about. >> no. >> thank you. >> except for rain. >> except for rain, yes. thanks, rosemary. >> sure. that is our report for this morning. thanks for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. we are ending the show early today because of conk of the -- coverage of the nascar sprint car cut. >> be sure to join us for our next newscast at 5:00. we are always here for you at
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♪ >> get behind you. nascar on fox. welcome to the martinsville, virginia. the sixth race of the season taking place on nascar's oldest track. america's best drivers anxious to get back behind the wheel and continue their heated chase for the points lead and each other. 500 laps might feel like 500 rounds today. and our mobile studio on the scene to try and bring you closer to the action. jimmie johnson on the pole with a track record qualifying speed. darrell waltrip and michael
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