concerns. a richmond neighborhood is safer tonight after police arrest a convicted felon. officials made the discovery at about 8:00 last night on san joaquin street. officers say they confiscated 18 firearms, two ak47 rifles and an m16 rifle. police say they found a half pound of meth and a half pound of cocaine. police have not released the name of the suspect. governor brown's two new -- sat on their first meeting today. they're promising more oversight over pg & e in the wake of that san bruno explosion. tom vacar is at the explosion site in san bruno with their reaction, tom. >> reporter: well the commissioners say that in the wake of death and destruction here, safety is their number one priority. of the five seats on the commission, one is vacant and

two have just been filled. >> we bring a slightly different perspective. >> reporter: mike florio was a member of the staff for utility consumers. he also served on the board of the power grid during the state's energy crisis a decade ago. >> we're going to be especially sensitive to the needs of the individual customer. >> reporter: florio says he's not automatically anti utility company. >> are we going to expect them to be better and better for yes, yes we will but we're not going to be unreasonable. >> reporter: sandoval is a former state undersecretary of the business transportation and housing agency. >> the utilities have a statutory duty by law to provide safe reliable service at reasonable rates, so i think first and formost the duty of

the commission is to ensure that the utilities are fulfilling their duties. >> reporter: former president of utility giant edison says their perspectives will change. >> everybody gets disappointed with you over time. i think that is likely to happen for anybody that comes on this commission. >> reporter: now coming up at 6:00, the new commissions first ethical concerns involving great big contributions from who else the utilities, consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu2 news. the search for a missing marin county teacher moved to san francisco for a time today. debra smith haven't been since since last wednesday. smitz volunteers at a homeless shelter and she mentioned some day she would like to stay at golden gate park to experience what it would be like to be

homeless. that's where police are searching today. she exchanged her e-mail with a cousin. >> i asked, how are you doing. she said things aren't looking good. i think a divorce is coming, i'll call you. detectives spent today pouring into solar radar to find where to search for a 4- year-old missing boy. they pulled 11 vehicles out of the water but not the silver toyota they are looking for. the divers are due back in the water tomorrow. oakland police told us just hours ago they are still looking to find homes for those abused pill bulls they found last month. they found 33 pit bulls in a home living in horrible

conditions. several of them had to be put down. now rescuers are trying to find new homes if the dogs including pacement in south dakota and oregon. the dog's owner faces charges of felony animal cruelty. there could be more restaurants that have a ban on new eateries for years now. david stevenson is in one neighborhood that is hungry for new restaurants. >> reporter: a 24-year-old ban blocks new restaurants from moving into store fronts like this. taco bar is one of the only mexican restaurants in the fillmore area. >> it's good to have competition to keep us looking for new stuff. >> reporter: new competition

maybe coming. the ban was meant to stop too much traffic for eateries. >> they can continue to ask for more than usual restaurant rates, because there's nowhere else to go. >> an outdated piece of legislation it's been on the books for more than 20 years, this ban. in tough economic times you have retail or other stores shutting down and nothing willing to come in to replace them. >> reporter: diner said more foot or auto traffic here may not be a bad thing, if it brings more cousine and cash. the full board of supervisors

may vote to lift the ban. even if it is lifted, restaurants like chili's or tgi friday will still be banned from the fillmore area. and our steve sat down with john sasaki to talk about the job he is not talking and the job he's keeping. this is an interview you will see only on 2. >> reporter: gasia, that's right. less than half an hour ago i saturday down and talked exclusively with chief anthony bats. he says he is not going to san jose and that san jose decided to go in a different direction. anthony bats has been very popular as chief. bats is one of two finalists for the chief's position with san jose police. late this afternoon, i learned from chief bats himself that

the job prospect in san jose is no longer on the table. the upshot of all of this is that bats may not be staying in the long run here in oakland. the chief seems very upset with the way the city is running the police department. >> when i walked in the door, i said about the systems are shattered. not broken but shattered. you have hand helds that don't work properly, have cars that do not run well. they have high miles, the basics that a police officer needs to do his or her job are failing. when i walked in the door i was told that public safety was job one, was number one for the city. >> reporter: city council president larry reed told me a big source of frustration for him and chief bats is the dropping number of officers here. more than 800 when bats came here, now about 655 and still falling. live in oakland, i'm john sasaki, ktvu news. the ktvu spoke with the san

jose managers office, we're told the manager has made her decision for the new chief. that is acting police chief chris moore. looks like mac world can survive without apple. that's according to the huge crowds at masconi center, as long as there are killer apps and new gadgets to feed their apple habit. >> there's a lot of devoted people that love all of the products that these people put out. >> apple fans were in full force today carrying their totes and looking for those new accessories. when the apple company pulled out, critics predicted mac world would die. but today vendors and experts have proved that mac world can survive. >> this is a celebration of all

things apple, apple is on a roll. >> you have vendors that are serving up great applications, it's a very user friendly environment to work with. >> reporter: today at mac world apps took center stage as winners of the best app ever competition were announced. the game angry birds won the over all best app. as well as best family game and best arcade game. the best app, where to, and best use of ios hard wear went to the bar code scanner. organizers say they expect to see 25,000 visitors before mac world ends saturday night. silican valley business leaders predicted a rosier outlook. others said the job market is making a slower recovery. >> it's the consumer that we're seeing start to buy once again.

that's the driving force of the u.s. economy. it's about 2/3 of the whole growth engine. >> we're struggling. we're finding work, we're staying busy. but it's definitely a challenge out there. >> in another sign of recovery, forecasters said silican valley business are expanding particularly those in technology and clean energy. are people who cheat and drive in the car pool lane getting a free pass? just how often are they getting caught? and more fog forming tonight at inland bay valley, the dense fog advisory again tonight. i'll show you the foggiest locations.

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but more and more of those cheaters are taking the trip. >> reporter: the cars are going a little too fast in the car pool lane to see if they are cheating or not. we just wondered how many are actually getting caught? you've seen the sign, nearly 400 bucks if you're caught using the car pool lane as a single driver. but even though. >> i think i've only done it once because i had to get to the appointment. but i just hopped on there really quick and got out. >> reporter: from 2009 to 2010 the number of violators jumped from 3,094 to 3,840. officer ross lee says limited resources can make catching everyone difficult. >> there's four of us working the entire county today. just the sheer drivers and motorists that are coming through the county there's no way that we can get everybody. >> reporter: officer lee spotted this car still in the car pool lane with one driver in it. the driver's excuse, his clock was slow but he admitted this

wasn't the first time he's been a violator. >> if it's a few minutes or something and i'm running late for class, i'll definitely jump on the diamond lane. >> now? >> now i'm definitely going to be more careful. >> reporter: injury, collision and speeding are the pry where -- are the priority of catching people on the diamond lane. >> many times you can have people who end up in a collision. >> reporter: in the past, chp used to put extra officers to catch single drivers, but there's not enough money in the budget to do that. and caltrans confirmed plans to close an onramp tonight on 80. the eastbound i80 off ramp to the coming sky way will close

tonight. a detour will be put in place. caltrans expects the off ramp to open at 7:00 tomorrow morning and close again tomorrow night. caltrans is working to extend that detour. and commuter buses are getting stuck in snow banks. passengers got out and tried to put a city bus. 19inches of fresh snow fell on new york city last night. making this the snowiest month in history. >> you get stuck, your car will be towed at your expense. you also prevent us from plowing so it would be helpful if people did not use their cars. >> reporter: the business of the federal government slowed to a crawl as commuters had trouble getting into washington, d.c. and crews

worked to keep up with power outages. for some virginia kids it was time to have a little fun sledding on the hills. travelers between the bay area and the east coast experienced delays today. flight monitors at sfo showed a number of delays or cancellations this morning. delays were running up to three hours at san francisco airport, that's better than jfk and new york where delays ran as long as five hours. let's go to chief meteorologist bill martin for more on the weather. >> fog this morning, more fog tomorrow morning. dense fog advisory for the area tomorrow morning. you see the fog lingering this afternoon in the central valley. it was big time this morning, it had filled in all the way into the delta. we had fog in many inland bay locations. that's coastal fog, it's moving in along the coast in advance of that next weather system.

there's a weather system heading our way. we're looking -- like a pretty good shot of getting some rain in here on sunday. that's a good chance. we haven't had rain in the bay area, significant rain in the last 20 days. plus looks like we're going to see it sunday. a dense fog advisory goes into effect through tomorrow morning. the north bay, the east bay valleys, you know the spots. and in some places, visibility is easily down to .16 of a mile. if you had poor visibility this morning, prepare for it tomorrow. i think it'll be worse tomorrow. because we're going to see a little bit less wind so it's going to allow the fog to stick in there. and we're going to see coastal fog, when the coastal fog meets the valley fog, that's going to get dicey. and the dense fog near zero visibility in many inland valleys. the toughest travel is going to be down 99 to the central

valley. that's where the fog is going to be the worse. antioch, brentwood, out toward sra vacaville and fairfield, traveling tomorrow which is friday which you know is a big get away. so fridays get away is going to be hampered at least in the morning with a lot of fog. when we come back we're going to talk more about the fog but we're also going to take a look at this rain comeing in for sunday. i'll see you back here. >> reporter: fans have a chance to see the san francisco giants trophy. the trophy is on tour and it's going to head to the north bay tomorrow where it'll be on display in sonoma. the white house has a new press secretary. find out who he is. also ahead, a bombing in iraq kills dozens of people.

we'll tell you what was going on moments before that blast. hear why experts say that most students are serving from poor emotional health. new at 6:00, a high speed chase, a suspect dead. we're learning more about problems officers ran into before confronting the suspects. these are genetically modified plants, could some like these one day be airport security detectors. the remarkable possibility, still ahead. some bay area residents could soon have less help for fighting fires. we're looking at why they could lose two fire houses they fought so hard to get. tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00.

president obama has named former time magazine reporter jake carney as the new white house press secretary. he will replace robert gibbs who announced two weeks ago he's leaving to become an

outside advisor for president obama's 2012 reelection campaign. and 22 people injured after a car bombing in iraq. angry iraqis led a protest against u.s. forces saying they are not protecting them. a new armor report says a large amount of soldiers are addicted to powerful painkillers. the investigation looked at soldiers in special units. 25 to 30% of those soldiers had developed various degrees or dependencies on painkillers. doctors say they need better training on how to manage pain

without prescribing drugs. the labor department reported lower than expected jobless claims. the number of people who continue to collect unemployment benefit social security also up 94,000 to just under 4 million people. pending home sales in the west aren't keeping up with the rest of the nation according to the national association of realtors. here in the west the index fell 13.2% between november and december. and is more than 10 points below it's level one year ago. the count of pending home sales reflects the number of people who have signed contracts to buy properties. the slight up tick in home sales pushed stocks up. and a new forecast predicts new

car sales will jump more than 17% this month. the good news meant better numbers on wall street. the dow jones rose four points to close at 11,189. the nasdaq also is uprising 15 points to close at 27.55. an annual study out of ucsf finds that a large number of students report low -- a record high say they believe their college education will help them make more money. investigators have told us the name of the man who was killed in the recent officer involved shooting in the south bay. who he is and more on these kinds of cases next. health care comes to an

east bay community in desperate need of one. how this may help prevent violence.

most of the types we don't have to use deadly force. but this time san jose police did. and it's raising questions about that department's first officer involved shooting of the year. a short while ago ktvu learned more about the person killed in the officer involved shooting in the hills. robert handa is live in san jose to tell us the name of the man and what may happen next and some perspective on why there seems to be so many officer involved shooting cases lately, robert. >> reporter: well ken now that

investigators have released the name. the sheriff's department can focus on looking up his past. and they can get involved in an investigation. 51-year-old quazi doe. the poa president points out mr. doe threatened officers, somehow fended off taser shots and brandish guns. >> usually we don't have to use guns. we resort to the taser or some other nonlethal force. >> reporter: bennie is a homeless man who this week won a claim against the city saying police used excessive force when they tased him in 2007. benny says a taser escalates a confrontation. >> i didn't respond the way the officer wanted me to respond. the next thing they're going to

do is take desperate measures. what more desperate than a taser than a pistol. >> reporter: this is san jose's first officer involved shooting. ladoris cordell says so called the doa cases can't be examined with a light brush. and she says that anyone can ask for an investigation through her officer. >> you can be a complaint without being involved in the incident. >> reporter: live in san jose, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. a man hunt is under way in san francisco for a man suspected in the deadly shooting earlier this week.

jonathan walker also known as john john. he has an arrest history in solano county. anyone with information on walker's where abouts is asked to call san francisco police or the anonymous tip line. 82-year-old lowell noble died january 7th, the medical examiner found the pneumonia that caused his death was brought by a swallowing problem from a beating he suffered. and members of the united food commercial handed out

flyers that said thank you for shopping at safeway. the demonstrators challenged wal-mart to provide fresh nutritious food once it begins selling groceries in some of the bay area stores. some of the familys in oakland have a hard time making ends meet. and getting welfare sometimes falls by the waist side. rob roth is telling us about a plan that looks to help. >> reporter: this school has a health clinic right on campus. you can see the reception area and the exam rooms to the back. for the first time, students and families in this school have a place to go, right here. oakland major gene quan helped cut the ribbon in this new clinic. parents say they've been using hospitals. >> i just found out my daughter is in need of glasses and we've just been accepted into the health clinic to where she'll

be able to receive a free pair of glasses. >> i think i should use it right now. >> reporter: school officials say about 90% of the 326 students at madison have no private insurance. but their school clinic will be nurses, a dentist and mental health professionals on campus and a doctor on call all from the alameda health department and it isn't just for the students. >> sometimes your mom and dad are very busy. we're hoping that having the clinic here, they'll come and use it, that other people in the neighborhood will. >> reporter: the cost will be paid mostly by med-cal. healthier families will build healthier communities. >> what does this is it allows us to treat the need and then send them back so they can learn. >> getting young people access to care, access to behavioral

and mental health can give them an advantage. >> reporter: the clinic is supposed to start seeing patients next week. reporting live in oakland, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. dozens of new graduates march across the street to pick up their diplomas. but the place where these alumnis graduated today may surprise you. if you look closely you will see that under the black gowns, the graduates are wearing orange jump suit, they are inmates in the san francisco county jail who completed the keys program. former inmates and new graduates got scott marshal says he had a long history of arrests until he enrolled in the five keys program.

>> it's been a joyful experience. a difficult experience, it's the kind of a situation where i learned what i'm capable of. >> reporter: students in the jail high school program range from age from 16 to 70 and take classes in everything from basic literacy to algebra. the five keys gave diplomas to 40 inmates who did their time in jail and graduated to the outdoor world. a court of appealed rules that a trial judge was wrong to rule that the statute of limitations had run out and dismissed the case. a survey by the public policy institute of california sent 54% of likely voters favor increasing the tax increases to

provide revenue for school, public safety and other services. 5% said they didn't know. general motors says no thanks to billions of dollars in government loans. the big one is coming to sfo. hear which airline will be using the 780 jumbo jet. and why the city is using millions of the dollars to pay for car dealer advertisement.

german airline lufthansa will start daily flights between san francisco the second week of may. tickets are now on sale, round trip sales start at $1,100. the lufthansa will be able to bring in 30% more passengers than it does right now. the treasury department plans to decrease the amount of money the treasury department is borrowing, freeing up an extra $195 billion. although it appears to be robbing peter to pay paul. the new law helps the government from breaking into a

new debt ceiling. without the new strategy, the u.s. could drive up the cost of borrowing for the government, u.s. firms and consumers. seems like the tea party is having problems getting lawmakers to join. today they met in washington for the first time with more than 100 supporters. despite their small membership, the group is not deterred. >> this is just the beginning. i think america is finally awakening, but we can't hit the snooze button and roll over and go back to sleep. the european commission this week approved intel's plan to buy macafee for $6.6 million. it requires intel to allow

rival companies to run their software on computers with intel chips. macafee will add better security and allow the company to enter the cell phone market. details about the world's first i pad only newspaper will be revealed next wednesday. it'll be called the daily, you have to pay to get it and the subscription price is said to be 99-cents a week. the announcement was originally supposed to be made in san francisco last week but was delayed. and general motors says it no longer needs a loan. the car maker has enough cash on hand to make the changes to factories to build green vehicles. gm applied at the depths of the

downturn of the auto market. as car commercials go by on your tv set next month, you may see some ads paid for by concord taxpayers. the city council voted tuesday to spend up to $40,000 for an ad campaign called buy your next car in concord. fishes say the money does not come from the city's general fund. a dozen dealerships also kicked in money for the campaign which includes e-mail and printed mail. concord gets more than $3 million a year in sales tax revenue from auto sales. not getting enough shut eye, the change to make tomorrow morning that could help you get a good night sleep starting tomorrow night. and right now i'm tracking developing fog, a dense fog advisory again tonight on top of that we've got rain for the weekend. i'll let you know when that's coming. a high speed chase, a suspect dead, we're learning more about problems officers

ran into before confronting the suspect. plus -- >> reporter: these are genetically modified plants, could these one day be airport security detectors? and oakland could soon have less help fighting fires. we're looking at why they might lose two fire houses they fought so much to get tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00.

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san francisco police are looking for the driver responsible for causing this mess early today in san francisco's mission district. a car obviously hit a fire hydrant then sped away around 4:00 a.m. the result was a towering gusher of water until the water department crews could cap it up and clean it up. that was around 6:00 a.m. >> state senator yee says 1,000 theme with signed a petition calling for an apology from rush limbaugh in just 48 hours. limbaugh recently made those

comments on his radio program. comments yee says mocked asian culture. he's got numerous death threats since calling for the apology from rush limbaugh. stewart was named as a board member for a memorial at ground zero. if you want to sleep better and who doesn't, make the bed every day. that's just one of the things suggested by a new survey from the national sleep foundation. people who say they make their bed every day are 19% more likely to get a good night's sleep. other factors reported among those claiming a good night sleep include a more comfortable and clean bedroom and clean and good smelling sheets. airport security is going green. next at 6:00, how plants could

be used to sniff out explosives. our julie haener is in the newsroom now to look at some of the other stories we're working on. >> also at 6:00, more on our exclusive interview with oakland police chief anthony bat who is says he is not headed out to san jose. new questions tonight about the relationship between pg & e and state utility regulators. following the san bruno pipeline explosion. the unusual dinner party both are attending tonight. and the city that may shut down its fire department. these stories and much more coming up at 6:00, we'll see you then. >> thank you, julie. a bizarre mystery we told you about tuesday has been solved. how did a grand piano get on a sand bar in miami's biscane bay. now a 16-year-old art student says he put it there to help

boost his chances to get into art school. he and his friends took the piano by boat to a sand bar and it was largely unnoted until a picture of it appeared on the national geographic website. i think a lot of people have an extra spring on their step these days. >> it sure does, temperatures today gilroy set a record. if you're in concord or fairfield or some of those areas the cool air, upper 40s, low 50s today. concord 49 degrees right now. we saw some 60s and low 70s. much cooler out here in the delta as that cool air has been filtering in. the fog in the valley, a dense fog advisories again. these were the highs for today,

69 in san jose, gilroy 70 degrees. 64 in san francisco, 65 in san mateo. temperatures tomorrow a little bit cooler, things are changing and they're changing right now. everything is starting to flip around. we'll see coastal fog combining with valley fog to bring difficult visibility to your morning commute. the extended forecast kind of dries up after that. the forecast overnight lows, fog in the valley. coastal fog here, that's going to make for some difficult commuting tomorrow morning, north bay and east bay. so be prepared for that. just like this morning, the computer model does this, tonight at10:00 you see all the valley fog. your friday morning commute, there's a lot of fog around. tomorrow morning is one of those mornings, dense visibility down .16 of a mile so be prepared for that. tomorrow might, the fog tries

to clear but it hangs around all day. then it changes saturday as the winds start to shift and this weather system moves in. it's a weak one. not a big deal but it is a system. it'll mix out the fog, it'll cool things off, the second after the weekend looks a little bit damp. saturday will be partly cloudy, partly sunny, but sunday at this point down. snow advisory in the mountains as well. so the computer model looks like this, we're into saturday and you start to see the showers showing up. partly cloudy, partly sunny, here comes sunday, we'll stop it right here in the afternoon when the rain looks to be at height around 2:00. in the mountains, looks like we'll get a snow advisory, tomorrow temperatures a lot cooler than they were today instead of 75 in morganhill we're looking at 64, 64 in san jose. five day forecast, things are

changing around. sunday looks like your wet day. fog tomorrow, and by sunday the showers are up. saturday night into sunday. it's not a big deal but it's enough to get the fog out of here and cool things down. >> so it's not a plan changer as far as if you have a birthday party outside or something. >> i would change my plans. i mean i would. you know just because it's going to be cloudy and drizzly and not an inch of rain but .10 of rain. that'll shut you down. drug smugglers in mexico used a catapult to send their drugs on the other side. the smugglers on that launch

crew got away. a survey of 1,200 men and women found 85% or women and 68% of men questioned that using media tools led to sex sooner before couples. communication by couples is now more by text than by phone calls. late night talk show hosts have loved it. many people laughed at it. now a security program is on it's way out. >> i'll show you how you will get warnings of threats in the future, coming up.

flags flew at flag staff today in mountain view as part of an annual day of remembrance. 17 astronauts have died on their missions and tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the challenger launch disaster. a southern california man now faces federal charges of interfering with a flight crew on a flight from san francisco to florida earlier this week. authorities say 45-year-old kevin theodore simon was upset when he couldn't buy a head set with cash on a jet blue flight.

then flight attendants wouldn't serve him any more liquor when they concluded he was intoxicated. at one point simons said i will take this plane down. that's when the pilot diverted to san jose city and he was arrested. and we're getting a new look at what future terrorist threats will look like. >> reporter: ten years after the 9/11 attack prompted the five coded threat alert system, the government has clued into what americans already knew. >> it's very confusing. >> reporter: right now the threat is at orange, but none of the passengers we talked to here at the airport really knew

what that meant or what they were supposed to do about it. >> what does an orange mean? does it mean i stay home and hide or am i okay to travel? >> a little too cryptic for me. >> reporter: janet napolitano says the color codes will be gone this spring. they will be either elevated or imminent threat. >> we will provide whatever information you can so you know how to protect yourself, your families and your communities. >> reporter: napolitano says the idea is that every day americans are critical partners in heading off future attacks and the more information you have the better. reporting from washington, d.c., allyson burns. secretary napolitan oh, o -- napolitano says future

threats will be diverted to security offices and the fda. and how these plants could soon help security.

evening i'm ken wayne, frank somerville is off tonight. >> and i'm julie haener, oakland police chief anthony bats told ktvu he is staying on the job. it is a story ktv u.com broke just after 4:00. that's when chief bats sat down with our john sasaki to explain why he won't be the top cop in san jose. >> reporter: i sat down at about 4:30 this afternoon with police chief anthony bats because he says that police department decided