fraudulent ads and happy meal toys to target young children. >> so that really concerns me that mcdonald's has that kind of influence on my children and on the things that they would request from me on a regular basis. >> tobacco companies have the courtesy not to go after 3-year- olds. coca-cola and pepsi cola don't go after 3-year-olds, mcdonald's does and shame on them. >> reporter: the suit was filed in state superior court in san francisco where county supervisors last month banned toys from kids meals that don't meat certain nutritional standards. >> i'm very sympathetic to the parents in sacramento that are challenging marketing towards kids that's unfair and that leads to healthy -- unhealthy food choices. >> reporter: in an e-mailed statement a mcdonald's spokeswoman said we are proud of our happy meals and intend to vigorously defend our -- intend to defend our brand and our food. we are confident that parents understand and appreciate that happy meals are a quality treat

that can fit into a balanced diet. >> i think this is for kids. i doubt they are going to have something that harm them. >> reporter: other mothers tell us they feel pressured by their kids to buy the meals. >> i bought it for him and exactly i learn about happy meal. he liked it. >> reporter: the suit doesn't seek monetary damages. instead, it seeks to block mcdonald's from advertising the happy meals on billboards, on television and even in its own restaurants. in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. san francisco schools are poised to slash bus service for elementary and middle school students. the school board has decided to move forward with a policy to reduce the bus fleet of 44 down to just 25. the move would save $3 million annually by the year 2014. the district no longer provides bus service for high schools. public hearings on the policy will be held next month. the district will begin phasing out bus service next fall. federal and local law

enforcement officers carried out raids on alleged gun traffickers in salinas today. a15u89 weapons, one fully automatic machine gun, ammunition and three handguns in those raids. 30-year-old israel espinoza of salinas and manuel were arrested following a seven month investigation. today's gun bust was the third major operation against violent against in salinas this year. the teenager charged with brutally attacking a 13-year- old girl and her young brother going to be tried as an adult. 14-year-old alexander certify vaughn tes -- servantes is accused of stabbing the girl and the toddler when he woke up during the struggle. he has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and rape charges. a teenager charged with detonating two pipe bombs at hillsdale high school in san mateo is now pleading not

guilty by reason of insanity. 18-year-old alex ushog changed his plea during a court appearance yesterday. he is accused of using pipe bombs and chain saw and a sword to try and blow up the school and kill hillsdale students and staff on august 24th of 2009. his trial is scheduled to begin on january 31st. the oakland police department is asking the fbi to help investigate the deadly shooting of an unarmed man by officers. 37-year-old derek jones was gunned down during a domestic violence call last month. police say he appeared to reach for a weapon in his waistband but they later determined he was not armed. police chief anthony batts is now calling for the independent investigation because of public outrage over the death. the oakland police department is also conducting an internal investigation. the man a federal judge assigned to fix health care in california prisons says the changes shouldn't stop there. clark kelso wants to break the

state department of corrections and rehabilitation into pieces and shift some control to counties. kelso says sentencing changes also need to be studied to cut down on the sheer number of inmates. >> you have to take a hard look at what should be coming to prison at all and for how long and really that means in california you have to take a look at some form of sentencing reform. >> kelso also wants to make the probation department independent. a series of storms are lined up in the pacific heading toward the bay area and bay area homeless agencies are bracing for their shelters to be filled to the brim. and today there was a ceremony to remind the public of the fatal consequences when the homeless can't find protection. ktvu's robert handa is live in gilroy tonight with more on this. robert. >> reporter: we are outside the gilroy national guard armory which is converted into a homeless shelter every night around 6:00 and because of those upcoming storms, an agency is going to try to expand this facility this week

because workers know all too well what can happen if they don't. ehc life builders says it plans to set up a program to help the homeless get oust of the rain -- out of the rain and cold into its three shelters in san jose, sunnydale and gilroy and workers will increase the number of beds. >> we have been full in a couple of our sites last night and i expect by the end of the weekend all three sites will be full. >> it's hurtful to see them walking away with bags and what little bit they own but still carrying the heavy weight and not really having anywhere to go. >> reporter: today ehc held its annual program to acknowledge those who died on the streets the past 12 months. this year 51 names were read. >> people don't really know people because a lot of times you lose hope and if somebody doesn't remind you there's hope out there, you forget. >> reporter: one hopeful development on site clinics and respite centers built after

years of community and local government donations. >> we have seen a decrease 24% in homeless deaths in the street from last year to this year and this clinic alone has housed over 100 people. >> reporter: but assemblyman paul fong says state health may not arrive soon. >> it doesn't look good because we have to deal with the 25 to $28 billion budget deficit and so everything is on the table. >> reporter: at this point ehc and other agencies are trying to deal with the immediate problem, how to help the homeless this week with too many people and not enough beds. live in gilroy, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. the house of representatives today voted to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." the controversial military policy which bars the openly gay from serving in the military. today's vote shifts the debate now to the senate. president obama wants lawmakers to repeal the ban before the end of the year. senate democrats say it will be harder to vote on the issue next year once more republicans

come into power, they tend to oppose repealing "don't ask, don't tell." the drinking water is once again safe in a farm worker community seven months after san mateo county red-lined that area. high nitrate levels in an old well threatened the health of the farm workers and their families. the county says a new well drilled by the landowner on bean hallow road is safe. it won't be the subject to future government testing. water officials say 2 million californians drink well water that is not monitored by the state. some little rascals are creating quite a stir in alameda. vice president-elector control -- vector control officials say the number of raccoon attacks is on the rise and they think they know why. allie rasmus is in an alameda neighborhood tonight where a pack of raccoons got into a home and caused a lot of problems. >> reporter: alameda county vector control says the raccoons are getting around the city through the city's storm sewer system. they wait until dark and crawl

out of these storms drain -- storm drains to start looking for food. >> raccoons were at least this long and, you know, they look big and fluffy like this. >> reporter: the cruz family dogs now how tough those raccoons can be. four came in through the kitchen -- into the kitchen through the family's doggy doer last thursday and got -- door last thursday and got into a scuffle with the pets. >> all this commotion broke loose. >> reporter: cruz says one of the raccoons had the smaller dog by the scruff of the neck. >> it looked as though he was trying to drag it out the back door, yes. >> reporter: she still has the battle scars to prove it. >> pretty big problem, especially this year. >> reporter: daniel wilson with alameda county vector control services says there have been 10 reported raccoon incidents in the city of alameda since june. >> this is the most recent one over on liberty. >> reporter: in half of those cases, the raccoons bit people like this alameda woman who was bit while taking her dog for a walk. >> there's no predators, there's nothing to put the

population in check. >> reporter: and because alameda is an island, wilson says there's no place for the growing population to go. several pet owners say they are taking precautions. >> kept in a closet where critters can't get it and we zip it closed. >> reporter: and other pet owners are keeping their doggy doors locked at night. >> and then the lock comes across. >> reporter: and vector control says right now they have no plans to start trapping and euthanizing the raccoons because they said that can be expensive and controversial so instead, they are asking homeowners to make sure they have no food or standing water in their backyards to keep the raccoons away. live in alameda, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. walnut creek police launching a holiday crackdown on drunk drivers. police are warning that beginning this friday the department will hold at least one dui checkpoint in the city. if weather and conditions permit, they will check each car coming through the undisclosed checkpoint for vehicle registration and other

potential violations. police say if you are going out to a holiday party, you should plan your evening before you leave home. designate a sober driver before you or your friends begin drinking and if you have been drinking, call a taxi, use public transit or call a friend to drive you home because if you get a ticket for dui, it could end up costing you thousands of dollars. he turned the word friend into a verb. the silicon valley entrepreneur now named the person of the year. also ahead, the major action the federal government took today to protect infants from a potential danger inside their cribs. and it's a race against mother nature. the work caltrans cruise must -- crews must do. ktvu channel 2 news the major business of the day. channel 2 morning news,

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caltrans crews racing against the weather to install the third set of pieces on the central tower of the new bay bridge span. the parts for that tower arrived from china after being delayed by storms at sea. caltrans had started lifting -- were going to start tomorrow but started this morning. the new section should be in place by christmas eve. a final fourth section of the tower installed if february or march. the obama administration is proposing the construction of two tunnels to divert water around areas with endangered fish population. the plan is the best way to manage the waters of delta. the $13 billion cost would be paid for by water users. they are convenient for parents but today the government decided they are also deadly. today the consumer product safety commission decided to

ban the sale of drop side cribs starting in june. ktvu's rita williams is live in lafayette tonight with more on this decision. rita. >> reporter: frank, with all the recalls the past few years, no one here at this child care center today seemed too surprised by the ban. most of us, even our children's children slept in these cribs but no more. they have a side rail that moves up and down, allowing easier access for parents and child care providers such as those here at the old firehouse school in lafayette. >> the sliding side cribs were a lot better for people's backs because they didn't have to bend over. >> reporter: but there have been problems too. the consumer product safety commission voted unanimously today to ban the manufacture, sale and resale of these cribs. that's because they say over the past decade more than 30 infants and toddlers, including 9-month-old liam johns from

roseville died when the cribs malfunctioned. >> when i saw him hanging there, i thought it was a doll. >> liam johns parents say the drop side rail partially detached from the crib, creating a dangerous v like gap between the mattress and side rail. >> when he rolled over and he slipped down, he got caught at his neck and ended up hanging and suffocating to death. >> reporter: liam's parents have been fighting for five years now and were in washington for today's announcement of the ban which takes effect in june. >> the united states will now have the -- one of the strongest crib standards in the entire world. >> reporter: hotels and child care centers such as this one have a year now to buy these new fix sided cribs. >> we haven't actually been using these for a while since they have been in question. we have one here in storage. >> reporter: parents are cautioned to check and recheck the hardware on any drop sided cribs they are now using, so no other child dies. reporting live in lafayette,

rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. and you'll find more information about the government's action to ban drop side cribs on our website, just look under ktvu.com. local marines went on a shopping spree today for bay area children in need. they gathered at the toys "r" us in hayward early this morning where they spent $45,000 buying toys, all of the items are going to the toys for tots program to benefit local children. the money for the shopping spree was raised by the u.s. marines and the sarah and mini morning show on radio alice 97.3. they must have cleared out those shelves, 45,000. a nice day around e bay area but changing. let's check in with bill martin. >> definitely change coming. tomorrow not a bad day but it marks the beginning of increasing clouds and then we are going to get wet. show you outside a live stormtracker 2 what we've got and the main thing here to note is the jet stream is focused on the west coast. here's the cold air coming down, here's the warm, moist are going to all meet right over

the top of us over the next -- well, starting on friday and really lasting through the weekend into the early part of next week and the middle of next week and perhaps even beyond. this is just how it is. when you get this much moisture lined up in the pacific and this far out, we are over the date line with some of this stuff so we are way past hawaii. we are watching moisture come up over the top here. that's going to get entrained. all the mechanisms are in place like this for a pretty significant rain event. now we get breaks in between each one of these events as we go into friday, saturday and sunday. big deal but not a big deal in terms of flooding. the trick is the breaks. we get a break, we are good. but if it's 72 howards straight of rainfall then we got to worry. this system has the potential to maybe not create breaks. we will watch. too early to tell. in the meantime valley fog as we had this morning, some more valley fog tonight. tomorrow is really a day of transition. the fog burns off. the high clouds start to filter

in a little bit as this next -- or the first system, the friday system, because there's a bunch of them, friday system gets here. so friday will be offshore tomorrow so tomorrow not a bad day. you'll start with dense fog, lunchtime partly sunny, partly cloudy, and by late in the day you'll notice more and more clouds so with that in mind let's look at the computer model. we get into thursday now. there's thursday, i mentioned the clouds increasing, you see the showers. now we are into friday. that's your morning commute on friday. that's wet. and then it just goes. there's friday lunchtime. there's friday afternoon commute, there's saturday, saturday late night, saturday morning, it just keeps coming. it's really -- it's fire hose is what it is. we have seen this before and it will go up and down a little bit and wherever it focuses the rain will be the heaviest so we will watch it. forecast highs tomorrow, 50s pretty much everywhere. the five-day forecast, we are going to go well above -- we are already at 100% of average most bay area locations.

could be 150, two hundred -- 200% more rainfall this season. >> amazing. >> thank you, bill. the fate of president obama's compromise to extend the bush tax cuts for everyone is now in the hands of the house of representatives. the senate passed the bill by a vote of 81-19 this afternoon. the house could take up the measure as early as tomorrow. president obama called on the house to pass the measure without any amendments but many house democrats want to remove provisions that lift the tax on estate that are less than 10 million for couples or 5 million for individuals. governor elect jerry brown receiving praise today from a former governor on his plans to tackle the state's budget problems as soon as possible. former california governor gray davis says brown's experience in his two previous add administrations -- administrations in sacramento are serving him well. >> he got eight budgets done, at least half of them on time

and he knows the portion of starting -- the importance of starting early. he knows the need to signal to the country that sacramento is getting its act together. >> brown says yesterday he wants to get a budget in place within 60 days. some of the predictions of the state deficit are as high as $28 billion. brown acknowledged that the situation is worse than he thought. facebook founder mark zuckerberg is the youngest person to be named "time" magazine's person of the year in more than 80 years. at just 26 years old he has turned the patality based -- palo alto based website into a social phenomenon. the magazine named him 2010's person of the year for his influence over culture. >> 26 years old. >> wow. once the enemy, now an alley. >> a texas ranger fan dons the orange and black to make good on a bet. who he had to cheer on today in san francisco. first a positive manufacturing report led to early gains on wall street.

however, stocks turned downward on renewed concerns about europe's debt crisis. the dow jones fell 19 points today, the nasdaq lost 10 1/2.

it was time today for the losing city to pay off a big bet made in the world series between san francisco and arlington, texas. >> let's go, lions, let's go. >> arlington mayor robert cluck put on the orange and black and hosted a juniors giantsgame in san francisco as part of a bet he made with mayor newsom at the start of the world series. >> this is a great place. >> you can deal with they are wearing giants colors? >> i love san francisco. >> reporter: i feel like you're biting your tongue a little bit. >> not really. >> going to be a -- trying to be a good sport there. mayor cluck praised the giants for playing good baseball. he is already on a flight back to arlington tonight. >> back home. all right. the giants have certainly got a whole lot of attention but nice to see the as making news as well. >> they have had a busy winner and yesterday what techy -- can hideki matsui joins the

outfield. rich hardin is back in an as usual form and trying to hook -- uniform and trying to hook on as a number 1 starter. he's first got to pass the physical and he's had plenty of injuries down through the years. he was 5-5 with the american league champion rangers last year and trying to make it back home to oakland. meantime, also pitched for the rangers last year but now officially a philly, cliff lee. much have been made of him shunning the yankees' offer and apparently reportedly leaving some $30 million on the table. >> there's plenty of money. when you hit a certain point enough is enough. it's just a matter of where you're comfortable, where you're happy, where your family is the most comfortable, what team gives you the best chance to win, you know. at this point it's about trying to win championships. that's really the number 1 thing for me and i think this team gives me the best chance to do that and that's really

it. >> we saw him striking out the l.a. dodger juan uribe there. meantime it is kind of a homecoming for alex smith when the niners travel down to san diego. it is where alex smith grew up and he will also have a reunion of sorts with nosh turner who was advertise offensive coordinator when he was with the $49 and probably -- 49ers and probably had his best year. turner now the head coach of the chargers and alex smith who will start at quarterback talks about the reunions. >> second year for me was a lot of fun and a lot of development for me. i learned a lot of football, you know, from him. learned a lot. unfortunate but it's part of the game. >> sharks and predators tonight but that is the sporting life for right now. back to you. >> thank you. >> thank you, mark. we want to bring you some breaking fuzz right now from newark -- breaking news right

now from newark where we understand there has been some type of shooting. you can't see a whole lot but from what we understand, witnesses are telling us that there was some type of shooting at cedar and burch in newark. we are working to gather more information and we will have complete coverage on this coming up in 30 minutes on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36 and that is our report for now. i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. good night. >> good night. the bay area's major news of the day, frank somerville, julie haener, the 10:00 news on ktvu channel 2 news, complete bay area news coverage.