david stevenson is live in san francis kuo, david. >> reporter: i just came from a meeting that with a guessing game that might affect the balance of power in san francisco. supervisors this afternoon said the pledge of allegiance as they got ready to nominate a new mayor for san francisco. >> i'm not hopeful that today's meeting is going to affect the quorum and views. >> we open the doors to city hall to residents of sro hotels and homeless people and immigrants, and they were really shut out. >> reporter: this afternoon he huddled with an aid to board president chu after sources

indicate that chu may be the city's district attorney. >> i recon i will couldn't in some what of a role of you know pushing issues and pushing the envelope from down on market street instead of here in this building. now at this moment, the full board is issuing accommodations for outgoing supervisors. those supervisors may use these touch screens to buzz nominations of mayor. mayor newsom has already delayed his inauguration to let incoming more moderate supervisors make the decision on who may be his successor. david stevenson, ktvu. jerry brown is wrapping up his first full day of work in sacramento. >> congratulations.

>> thank you. >> the governor walked the corridor of city hall. governor brown also met with county leaders, they say it's the first time that they can remember that a governor came to them to get their issues. the ninth circuit court of appeals issued a request today. this is a crucial point since the governor and the attorney general have refused to appeal a san francisco trial judge's decision striking down the ban as a violation of the civil rights of gay californians. no word on how the board will rule. and a man on a wheelchair

was shot by police. he was shot after a call came in of a man slashing tires. rob roth has the story. >> reporter: we're in howard street near tenth south of market street: now across the street is where the city holds it's mental health and drug treatment programs and police are checking those surveillance cameras to see if they yield clues to the shooting by officers of a man who uses a wheelchair. in this exclusive ktvu video, plain clothed police are responding to a man who had just been shot by officers. the shooting happened at 10:15 this morning. a woman who works at the mental health center says she saw the man this morning. >> i saw him fumbling with something on his lap. i thought he was rolling up a cigarette, i don't know. >> reporter: how did he look?

>> not very happy. >> reporter: when officers arrived witnesses say there was an altercation with the man on the wheelchair. >> during the altercation, there was a stabbing of a police officer. >> reporter: officers say they tried to subdue the man by firing a weapon that pops bean bags. >> all of a sudden i hear pop, pop, sounded like two shots. >> reporter: police say it's still unclear whether the man who uses the wheelchair was actually standing at the time of the shooting. this is the second officer shooting in san francisco. both appear to have involved people with mental health problems. police chief george gascon has been campaigning to gear police officers with tasers. rob roth, ktvu news. police announced they have

charged a volunteer youth minister with child molestation. klatt has access to many teenage aged boys in his work. police are asking for any information on klatt or any child molestation cases to contact police. and there were closures, the problem was a hole in the roadway and the location of that hole made it even more dangerous. ktvu's sal castaneda along 880 with more. >> reporter: frank, traffic is finally moving again. i want to show you, right there that bridge right behind me is where a hole developed in one of the lanes forcing the authorities to make a quick decision. this morning a sudden hole in a freeway bridge forced caltrans officials to order an emergency closure and repair. two north lanes closed just after 8:00 and quickly made a mess of the morning commute.

at one point, stopping traffic into san leandro. caltrans's official blame wear and tear for the problem somewheres >> it's -- >> it's one of the early highway systems. weather has eroded some of the freeway. >> reporter: this morning's pothole was especially dangerous, it was in a bridge with no support below. the closure frustrated drivers and everyone hampered emergency vehicles in the area. >> i had to pull off to the side of the road in order to get some gas, only because i was worried about getting back and be log jammed. >> reporter: things should be getting better, $420 million worth of improvements and fixes are well under way.

including this road widening near the embarcadero in oakland. officials say most potholes occur because of water seeps into the ground below and then losening up pieces of concrete and asphalt. live in oakland, sal castaneda, ktvu channel 2 news. and there was another major problem on 880 today. this time in san jose. traffic was tied up for hours aftera big rig jack knifed on the freeway. it happened around 11:30 this morning. the crash blocked all three southbound lanes until just after 2:00 while caltrans crews cleared debris and cleaned up oil spilled from the truck. the highway patrol diverted traffic around the area. ktvu's robert is telling us that crews have righted the

overturned boat and are working with the owner to keep the diesel fuel from leaking. the boat was carrying a couple of thousand pounds of crab we know it became stranded -- drab when it became stranded. we're going to take you to half- moon bay on the live report on the effort to curve this potential environment threat. a sharp reversal from the previous month in the jobless rate. unemployment road in 258 of the cities up from only 108 cities in october. analysts say the economy is strengthening but employers have been reluctant to create jobs. auto sales are sputtering

back to life. gm says it sold 2.9 million. chrysler sales increased by 17%, toyota was the only mayor car company to report lower sales. the japanese auto maker sales slipped by 2%. prices at the pump are going up. here in california, we're now paying an average of $3.30. the national average is $3.07 a gallon. it was $3.04 one week ago and $2.92 last month. on wall street, the markets ended mixed today with the dough closing slightly higher, the nasdaq slightly lower. the dow moved higher after the release of minutes from the federal reserves last meeting. they show the central mark reporting there was moderate improvement in the economy. the dow closed up 20 points at

1,691. the nasdaq was down 10 points at 2,681. she says she's needed the operation for a while. the mayor surgery senator dianne feinstein will undergo tomorrow. and there will be fog again tomorrow morning. it was pretty much everywhere this morning. we'll tell you which neighbors will see it and how long it's going to stick around. wrap

president oe president obama is back in washington tonight a day before republicans take over. the president told reporters today he will focus on creating a competitive economy and create jobs for americans. he also said he hopes that the gop leaders will leave the campaigning for next year and focus now on the economic recovery. on capitol hill tomorrow, there will be a changing of the

guard as republicans take control of the u.s. house of representatives. today san francisco congresswoman nancy pelosi held her final news conference as house speaker. democrats are gearing up for a political battle. >> reporter: its was exactly four years ago today that nancy pelosi made history becoming the first female speaker of the house. tomorrow a role reversal where pelosi as minority leader hands over the gavel to republican house speaker john boehner. pelosi showed no emotion. so different from his replacement, who she vowed to work. >> when the suggestions put forth are problem solvers to the american people, and the republican who is will find in the democrats willing partners. >> reporter: not when it comes to the republicans first priority, repealing the health care reform bill as early as

next week, the house will work to undue one of the democrats single achievements. >> one way or another we have to pull some of this bag and replace it with common sense politics. >> a move that's spanning a flame of a new political wall. >> this repeal of health care is theater, társ a kabuki dancs take power at noon tomorrow. in washington, carol han, ktvu, channel 2 news. we've shown you a will the of no frills celebrations like jerry brown. incoming house speaker john boehner's name was on the invisitation, he's said to be skip -- on the invitation, he's

said to be skipping the event. and senator feinstein says she has needed a knee operation for a while now. she will be recovering before returning -- last year 32 people committed suicide compared to 31 in 2009. another 75 people were put on medical observation at hospitals in 2010 after showing signs of being suicidal while on the bridge. over the years, more than 1,400 people have committed suicide by jumping off the golden state bridge, more than any other single location in the world. a new government report shows that more adults in the u.s. aren't wearing seat belts but it's still not enough. the center of disease control and prevention say about 85% of

adults surveyed report wearing their seat belt on every trip. that's up from 11% in 1982 before the first state law requiring seat belt use. the cdc says that seat belt use is the single most effective way to save lives and reducinjuries reduce injuries. it says it's the only way to win the battle. a driver lost control of her car on the black ice and it came crashing down the enbankment and right into a bedroom wall. >> very grateful that my house just got a few dinging in. i'm happy that myself and my baby are okay. my husband wasn't home, everything is okay. >> reporter: the icy conditions caused an suv to slip down the road and roll into a creek bed.

the drivers in both accidents walked away and will be okay. a sand truck was sent in to make the roads in the area safer for other drivers. >> right now all across the bay, we're sure feeling the cold temperatures that our chief meteorologist bill martin talked to us about yesterday. >> 45 this morning, still burn off in the east bay. but boy the sun came out. didn't get real warm, low 50s, mid-50s. but just seeing the sun i think was a good thing for most folks. the fog reforms tonight. in the inland bay valleys we have a dense fog advisory. that's not for the bay area but from about sacramento south all the way down into bakersfield, you're going to have dense fog in the mortgage. that's going to get you the dense fog advisory. the jet stream stays to the north and that's the mechanism, the high pressure any way. the mechanism for continued fog formation. we're going to see a lot of fog again tomorrow. that will have an impact on your morning commute, as it did

this morning. north and east bay, the usual spots, a little bit more of it tonight. now what's happening is the central valley fog is really progressing. it's getting bigger. when it does it's like a soup bowl. ill spills over into the bay area. we start to see more fog coming in from the east and that will give us a little more fog in the morning. this pattern, pretty much always givers you dry weather. when you have fog formation, when you have valley fog and dense fog advisory, just immediately say there's no rain in the forecast because fog cannot exist if the atmosphere is not stable. 42 in santa rosa, that's at the airport, that's the cold spot. what's going to happen in santa rosa, dewpoints stays at 36 degrees, temperatures are going to drop to 35 degrees. 35degrees dewpoint temperature, that's when you get fog. that's as cool as it can get. because once air vaporizes into

the cloud, that's actually warming. so when condensation occurring it warms the atmosphere. that's about where you're going to be, you're not going down to 28 degrees or something. there's the satellite loop. you see it right there. i'm going to tell you what to expect when it comes to rainfall in the upcoming weekend. swans are swimming again in the lagoon in san francisco's palace of fine arts. the lagoon has been empty since november when someone killed a swan. after check up at the san francisco zoo, animal experts took blanch up to point rays where she found two new companions. blanch and her companions were

taken back to the museum of fine arts. investigators have digitally highlighted people in the video, including a young woman who threw a garbage can at the royal convoy. the bay area's lab is looking for a new -- and the latest on the navy scandal. what's happening with the ship's commander today. and why californians are crying foul over a new law because of who it will put in the classrooms. new at 6:00. >> no one wants to get a parking ticket, but now one bay area city wants to give out more to increase their own

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a u.s. citizen convicted of high jacking a plane from new new york to cuba four decades ago was sentenced in a new york courtroom today to 16 years in prison. louis pena soltre and two other men brought knives and pistols on a flight and forced the pilots to divert the plane to havana. the two other men were sentenced in the 70s but it wasn't until 2009, pena soltren returned to the u.s. to face charges. today the navy permenantly removed the captain of the u.s.s. enterprise because of his role in some controversial videos that she shot on board the

ship. >> because there's a really good chance you're going to be offended. the videos were shot four years ago when captain owen honors was the commander on the ship. he played the video's ship right on the ship. honors has been relieved of his duties tonight. >> he's been held accountable for the inappropriate actions repeatedly demonstrated on those videos. as naval officers we are held, indeed we must be held to higher standards of performance and conduct. >> some sailors who served on the enterprise have started a support page for honors on face book says his movies help boost moral. honors has been reassigned to

officer duty. navy officials say they will include looking into actions of other officers who knew about the videos. the president signed an amendment to the no child left behind as part of a spending bill. which claimed that uncredential teachers were being dumped on their schools. just two days before the big consumer show, analysts are predicting that apple sales will sizzle this year. i pad sales are predicted at 36.2 million in 2011. more than 1/3 of adult americans will own a tablet computer by the year 2015. with the apple i pad taking the bulk of that market.

the competition is coming. 80 new tablet computers will debut at the show. it's the first full day in office is any example, the formality of the governor's office is gone as brown holds budget meetings and does a lot of walking.

at least in the beginning of good will. on his first full day on the job, governor jerry brown pounds the pavement and walks the halls of congress. brown vows to do things differently. he is saddled by that budget

hole that has been plaguing our state for years. >> reporter: if you were walking the streets of sacramento this morning you may have bumped into our new governor. brown walked to walk this morning, if it's a trivial example, it is one sign of the change. this imagine alone speaks of a new tone at the capital. governor jerry brown strolling the hall way without a large enterage. >> we're going to make sure there's enough funds for

programs. >> this is different than i have ever experienced. we had to go walk to the governor's office and get patted on our head and say something bad is going to happen to you. we actually had a chance to have a conversation. >> i think the total will be one, at least in the beginning of good will. i hope that will last at least during my first term. >> reporter: well we expected to hear word today about possible appointments from the brown administration in particular as chief of staff or executive secretary, but that word did not come down today. as for his budget plan, that will be released on monday. in sacramento, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. former governor arnold arnold schwarzenegger had some free time in his hands and he may spend some of it on a ski trip with the russian president. they formed an unlikely friendship last year during a visit by the russian leader to

the bay area. on the governor's last day in office, the two exchanged twitts agreeing to do good on a skiing trip. there is still one more inauguration ahead in sacramento. gavin newsom will be sworn in on monday. newsom joked that his own inaugural party will be a big affair. >> cheese whiz, i'm trying to get a deal on grape use. and not the alcoholic type. so, i'm basically picking up the extras from the other inaugurals. >> newsom is looking to appoint a new district attorney. president obama today signed the biggest over food safety over haul in years.

after several e.coli and salmonella outbreaks in the past few years. it would also raise standards on imported foods. a bay area company is looking to finds a second home if you will and it's asking for help from developers in the bay area. lawrence berkeley national laboratory is seeking proposals for a 2 million square foot second campus. the new site would house 20% of the lab's work force who right now work out of several leased spaces. the lab want it is new campus to be within a 20 minute drive of its current campus in the berkeley hills. it hopes to pick a new site by june and move in sometime in 2015. stanford university is bouncing back from it's devastating investment losses and fewer donations in 2009. university officials say 2010 saw a 10% jump in the endownment to almost $14 billion. the university also says it's net assets were up 7.5% to more than $21 billion.

there are still celebrating down on the form today after the cardinals squeeze virginia tech 20-10 in the orange bowl. speculation is growing now for what's next for the team's coach and quarterback. our joe fonzi is live now with more. >> reporter: what's happening right now is the stanford bus has just pulled up about one minute ago. they were supposed to be here at 4:00. they just got back here now, fresh off that orange bowl win. you have to go back to the days of pop warner and clark shana become a b -- shanabi that were as dominant as this team. despite their 40-12 win over virginia tech, has a lot of question marks as they come back home here tonight. it was truly a dominant effort last night. but the big story is andrew luck, what's his future. he can turn proif he wants to. he's projected to be a number

one draft choice in the nfl if he does decide to come out. and of course coach jim harbaugh is being targeted by a number of places, particularly his alma mater in michigan. and as you might expect last night, he didn't want to say too much about his future. >> i think this was the final game that you coach add stanford? >> please, please. give me a break. you know have some respect for the game and it's about the performance tonight of these players and i love them. let's talk about them. >> we set out, we had a goal this season like coach harbaugh said to be champions. it would have been an empty season if we would have came home empty-handed. i'm so proud to be part of this team, to be part of stanford university and it means the world. >> i don't recall a dominant team that's had as many

question marks as they're coming home victoriously. we're going to find the answers to those questions, until then reporting live, joe fonzi, ktvu challenge two -- ktvu channel 2 news. and why american airlines may soon reappear on your favorite travel site. and gene quan returned and is getting down to business.

a california highway patrol officer narrowly avoided a accident this morning. it all started about 9:30 a.m. when an officer spotted a ladder in the lanes near west texas street. the truck's container landed on the chp cruiser as the officer tried to drive the car away from the skidding truck. you can imagine the officer was shaken up but not seriously hurt. the driver of the big rig suffered minor injuries.

ktvu's claudine wong has our report. >> i'm doing basically a meet and greet with the police department. >> reporter: before the sun came out, oakland mayor was at the police department to talk to the rankin file one on one. >> this is our regular line up. >> they never let you guys into our line up, we talk about top secret stuff. but if i was going to let anyone in, it would be you. >> reporter: going in there were smiles and jokes, but there is serious business. >> how do you feel about relationships. >> i have a dynamite boss, it's good top her here. >> i think by comments that maybe she's trying to you know, maybe bridge a gap or try to figure out what exactly we do. >> reporter: is that a big gap that needs to be filled?

>> yeah, definitely. >> reporter: when it comes to fighting crime, the mayor is turning to the community and the school. but she also says she doesn't expect any more cuts this year. >> reporter: do you think there's a need for more officers. >> yes i do, but we have to have more resources and you have to have a balance approached to reducing crime. i can't just resinate the parks and rec so the union doesn't have to pay their pension. >> reporter: and they set a meeting next week to continue their meeting. the bigger question is will they be able to find common ground. in oakland, claudine wong, ktvu news. american airlines says it's talking to two mayor travel websites.

american pulled it's flights from orbitz. american airlines says there's no immediate plans to resume sales on orbitz. expedia did not guilty comment. and new dvd players and tvs will come with a new netflix button. the remotes will be available in early spring. a trial is under way in los angeles to determine whether michael jackson's doctor will stand trial for manslaughter. members of the jackson family attended today's hearing and listened while prosecutors presented their case. prosecutors say dr. murray administered a dangerous anesthetic to help jackson sleep. they also say murray did not administer proper cpr, did not call 911 right away and

attempted to cover up evidence of the overdoze. he could face up to four years in prison if convicted. the mystery of what's happening to the bumblebees and why you should care. that story still ahead. and and there's a lot of fog forming out there right now. there's a dense fog advisory out in the san joaquin valley. now one bay area city wants to hand out -- out even more parking tickets to increase their revenue. and another town taking on smart meters. we'll tell you what town is trying to keep pg & e from putting them in.

marin county supervisors are

delaying a vote on single use bags until next week. they decided the issue needed a closer look. spoátars say the plan will help cut down on litter that blocks storm drains and can be harmful to marine life -- supporters say the plan will help cut down on litter. ktvu's health and science editor john fowler live in berkeley -- >> reporter: this is berkeley's youth alternative urban garden. right now in the bay area bumblebees are just becoming active. in the wild they'll pollinate flowers, fruits and vegetables. greenhouse growers use bumblebees for crops like tomatoes, for those in the know this bee report is sobering news. >> we're losing a part of our buy logical wealth. >> reporter: world expert robin

thorpe predicted these declines. he showed us research done by scientists that shows 40% of bumblebees are gone. an imported fungus is killing the american bumblebee. although surviving bees may be genetically resistant that bridges about sickness. while bumblebees and honey bees are in trouble, curiously, those bees seem to be doing well in urban areas. you can see the boxes of bee hives that are here at this urban garden. now if you would like to know more about what you can do to help bees survive, go to our website www.ktvu.com and click on web links.

live in berkeley, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. new york officials are asking people who attended a new year's day mass at a catholic church may have contracted hepatitis a. it could have been spread through the communique wafer on wine cup. while thousands of american receivers heart implants, many of them may not need the devices. 22% or about 1 in five patients received heart defibrillators for questionable reasons. former vice president dick cheney is one of the most known persons with the device.

julie haener is in the newsroom now with a look at some of the other stories we're looking at. >> reporter: at 6:00, seems nothing is sacred today. the items thieves stole from a local spca and why it left people saying who would do something like that. opening arguments for a man accused of killing his parents in 2008. tonight the defense is suggesting maybe it was another family member who did it. plus the bay area county that voted today to ban so called smart meters and why it doesn't appear to be stopping pg & e. it's all coming up at 6:00. the mystery of the mass bird deaths is spreading. in louisiana today more than 100 dead birds of several species were found scattered in the highway. officials have sent samples of the birds to see if contamination or other factors caused the death. in arkansas over the weekend, five to 10,000 birds fell from the sky. those birds were killed by

heavy blunt trauma possibly caused by hail. we want to go over to our chief meteorologist bill martin, and boy what a nice day today. >> it cleared off in the east bay at the latest hour. that was about 11:00. let's go to live storm tracker 2. we will check the winds right now, the reason i'm doing this, let's go to fairfield. this automatic sensor will give us winds, north at nine. so the winds are doing this, coming in this direction. it's not very strong so what's going to happen is, without a lot of wind tonight the fog is going to have a heck of a better opportunity to set up. and that's why the dense fog advisory has gone into effect for the central valley. now it wouldn't be hard for the weather service in monterey to issue it for us. may happen tomorrow night, be prepared for very dense valley fog. the jet stream, you can see where the jet stream is by the

clouds. the to trojectory is this way. so tomorrow morning when you wake up, it's cool. mid-30s, for most of us mid-40s and there'll be fog. as you get into the afternoon hours, fog and sunshine. by the afternoon it's mostly sunny for all of us just like today. for tomorrow, almost a duhly cat duplicate of what we saw today. california 500% of average rainfall. we have 200% of average snowfall. high pressure, cold conditions. this is like clock work, you get rains like we've had, the weather stabilizes and we get fog. you're going to see fog in the valleys and per happens in your

neighborhood if you're in napa. visibilities are the worse about 3:00 or 5:00 in the morning. visibility below 440 or quarter mile, 400 yards that's below that. i think we can see visibilities down to even less than a quarter. just prepare for tomorrow as you travel around. a cool morning in san jose for your start tomorrow. 55degrees at lurch, about 59 degrees for aday a daytime high in san jose. the other thing i haven't mentioned, the bay area management district could easily at any point this week issue a spare the air night because of this inversion, they haven't yet: and that's something that would happen in subsequent evenings. dry but cloudy and pretty cool. i wouldn't call it freezing but temperatures in the mid-30s, upper 40s. >> nice to see a will the of

folks out in their short sleeves. >> really nice. >> any rain in the long term? >> maybe a spotty chance on the weekend but nothing major. no major rain in the forecast. >> we haven't had it like this in a long time. >> it'll be nice. lottery fever is sweeping the bay area. up next the millions of the reasons people are out buying lottery tickets today.

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a san francisco nightclub will not be serving drinking any time soon. alcohol beverage control officials say they took action against the tenderloin district bar because it has allowed minors inside. sweet 101 also has lost their permits because of ongoing problems. after 15 drawings without a big winner the pot has grown to $330 million. winning it however is a long shot. the odds are one in 176 million that you end up with the lucky combination. but one can dream. we caught up with one business owner who started a pool to improve her odds. >> i'm collecting with the customers, i've been doing this for a long time.

you know every time it gets big, i collect pools with the customers. so if i win, they win too so we can all retire. >> reporter: kelly young collected $500 for her pool today. the winning numbers are going to be drawn at 8:00. you still have time to get your ticket. the lottery is played in several dates including california and washington. coming up next -- >> reporter: there was a mysterious break-in at this animal shelter over the weekend. what the thieves stole and why they could have had it for free. p÷z@w w t ileororr li irore

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show down at city hall, the political battle being fought right now and how it could shift the power at san francisco. and what's being done now to make sure this boat doesn't pollute local waters. good evening everyone i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. right now there is a power struggle going on inside san francisco's city hall. city supervisors just started debating who to vote in as mayor even if mayor newsom has not left office. >> reporter: half an hour ago, supervisors seemed inclined to call another