the square where protesters squared off against the egyptian president in a deadly clash and a woman tells us her story. and we are uncovering more about the company playing a role in keeping communication open between egypt and the rest of the world. we learned the crisis in cairo has turned deadly, three people have died and hundreds injured in uncontrolled fighting. we have another live look now of what is happening in terrar square. there are anti-government protesters trying to topple egypt's leader of 30 years are. >> reporter: wounds protesters are being treated in the street. they are getting injured by bottle bombs and there are make shift clinics to treat the wounded. much of the fighting is in

terer square. the violence comes after president mubarak rejected calls to step down immediately. instead he is insisting on serving out the rest of his term. opposition wants him out of office by friday. >> any kind of seasoned politician will tell you that this man has no political sense. he is politically stupid. >> reporter: reporters are targeted as well. >> the soldiers are doing nothing. >> reporter: anderson cooper says he and and a producer and photographer were attacked. the committee to protect journalists are accused of orchestrating these attacks on them. cooper described the ordeal after the incident. >> it was pandemonium, a man came up and he would punch you

in the face. the the instinct is to push back but you can't do that. >> reporter: the protesters of the voices are being held globe bally and we have how a company is helping. >> reporter: in the heart here off of university avenue you will find this company playing a role, it is aiding communication halfway around the world. >> this is my main source of life. but it is from egypt. >> reporter: lena returned egypt on monday, the program manager studies political reform in the arab world and attended in cairo last week, the demonstratings started. >> you could hear firing all of the time and you saw the police cars and more roads were

blocked and the phones went dead. twitter and facebook and the internet. >> she is writing to say that she is physically fine but saying our country is bleeding. >> reporter: with the internet backup she can get e names from friends in egypt. >> i was up at five in the morning and one of my friends in egypt said that this was the first e-mail he is sending. >> reporter: after the internet was shut down, google launched a new method through voice mail and provided three phone numbers including one in the peninsula area code and users can record voice messages transmitted into texts or twits. >> there is discussions about providing the local government with an internet cutoff switch. this is starting to showcase an effort to try to already think around and beyond that. >> reporter: coming up at six, we will have more from that first hand be account from egypt from that bay area woman

and we will have potential dangers from users during these tumultuous times. more than two dozen students and researchers of ucl acaught in the chaos have been evacuated. 19 students and an 11-member archaeology team should be back by the end of the week. they were supposed to study in cairo and thearchaeologists were on a dig there. you can go anytime to ktvu.com and we will have constant updates and click on the world news tab. the coroner says it could be a couple weeks before dna tests confirm that a body found yesterday is 4-year-old julie cardinsi. hundreds gathered in patterson to offer prayers and support for her family. the county officials say the

body found matches the description of jewelana that was kidnapped. >> there's a massive storm hammers the midwest and it is impacting people in the bay area with thousands of flight cancellations and airport shut downs in some places. jim will tell us about the frustration. >> reporter: conditions here at san francisco international are better than across the country. all flights in chicago were canceled and some to dallas and boston and others east coast studies. there was a huge storm that has covered the country and flight after flight more than 13,000, so far over two days were canceled by the airlines before some airports closed. mark howard tried to go home last night.

>> i just called them up and said that my flight got turned over to 7:00 this morning and so i go to dallas instead of chicago. i go to dallas and then milwaukee. >> some are taking it in stride. >> it is frustrating but nothing you can do about it. >> reporter: a spokesperson says to expect travel problems for several days even after the storm. >> it will be ongoing because of the backlog of flights. they have had two full days of not getting traffic in and out of chicago and you have the crews out of position and the passengers and it will take time to get it unwound. it is advised that people should call the airlines before leaving for the airport and that most are e-mailed about

travel ahead. jim vargus, ktvu.com. that storm is affecting 30 states and one in every 3 americans and bringing more snow and cold that is moving from the midwest to the east coast. we have more. >> reporter: the ground hog calls for an early spring and mother nature says maybe not. a massive winter storm has left its mark on dozens of states from the midwest to the northeast and even in places where the storm has stopped and the digout is under way, concerns about frigid temperatures and how to clear roadways. >> we have a lot of snow out there that still has to be cleared and moved out of the way and it will be sometime before it is all gone. >> reporter: chicago was socked overnight and well into wednesday with strong winds and frigid temperatures and heavy snow crippling the cities iconic thorough fairs including michigan avenue and lake shore drive. >> the results of this rapid series of events was that we had hundreds of vehicles that

were stuck and or abandoned on lake shore drive for many hours during the night including several buses. >> the storm has gridlock air traffic impacting operations and canceling thousands of flights across some of the nation's busiest airports including new york kennedy and la guarda and boston logan and chicago o'hare. >> i am supposed to go to minneapolis but i got stuck here. i arrived yesterday. >> reporter: a big concern in new england, snow that is piling up after storm after storm has pounded the region over the last month. >> this massive storm is moving across the midwest and into the northeast. it has done so over the past 24 hours and to give you some idea of how big the storm is, take a look at this satellite image from nasa. the storm is covering 30 states from new mexico to maine with eight states under blizzard warnings and the storm is

affecting a third of the american population and has left hundreds of thousands of people without power. and that storm is on the move. let's go to our chief meteorologist phil martin that will show us where it is heading. >> the storm is moving out but what is happening is that the cold air left behind that front, that very strong storm is staying in the central rockies and let's go to storm tracker two and i want to zoom in. right now in denver it is two degrees and there are wind chill warnings, two degrees in denver it is going well below freezing tonight probably in the minus five, minus ten range. omaha, nebraska, 3 degrees and the main weather is now moving off towards the east up towards the northeast and it is a winter storm warning throughout the northern new england states and then here in the appalachians we got a wind advisory. what does it mean? trouble for your travel because you will have icing on the runways and issues with that in chicago and issues with backups in new york. the big storm moving out but it's leaving a lot of cold air

and a lot of ice, a lot of frozen runways and a lot of issues for travelers. call ahead if you are traveling in the next 24 to 48 hours. when i come back i will tell you about our weather. keep in mind that you can check up to the minute weather by going to ktvu.com. when you are there look for the travel tab on the home page. the jobless numbers showing improvements. the labor department says the unemployment rate in december fell in 207 of the 372 metro areas, the largest number to report a decline since september. the unemployment rate rose in 122 areas. it was the same in 43. nationwide, the unemployment rate dropped in december to 9.4%. on wall street the dow jones barely held onto the 12,000 mark for a second day. >> after yesterday's strong run the tough market was flat as

investors watched the events unfold in egypt. the dow jones rose 188 points to close at 12,041 and the nasdaq fell to 749. a school principal that was fund down on campus has died. police say that 50-year-old sam la carera the principal was shot by a school janitor. the school was locked down and police arrested the janitor at his home about one hour later. no children were hurt and have been released to their parents. the sheriff says the motive is unclear. the bush administration never did set a drinking motor standard. hundreds of people that live in the bay area are drinking bottled water and the move in washington that may

solve that problem.

after a state order inspection , there are gas line leaks. there are records to verify the safety of the natural gas lines. pg and e discovered 59 leaks. they were grade one leaks which are dangerous. however, pg and e says they are rarely the cause after rupture like the one that happened in san bruno. ten years there was a chemical found in the water. officials are taking action to restrict the chemical. barb buckster says it is long time for action. >> the bush administration never set a drinking standard leaving millions of americans at risk. >> the chemical is used in fire works and other problems. it is linked with infant brain

development. hundreds of homes that relied on well water were affected. california has set a standard for drinking water and the federal government will do the same. >> it is about protecting americans and their water and second this decision is about following science. this has led to this decision by studies. >> pro chloride has contaminated drink waters in 26 states and it will take two years to develop the new drinking water standard. some families must drink bottled water until the cleanup is finished. there were big rig trucks knocked over on several freeways, five truck toppled in san bernardino. the accidents happened on

highway 10 and 15 at rancho kookomundo. some lanes were shut down for hours while crews cleaned up the wreckage. the chp says the 58 miles per hour winds were the strongest to hit that region in months. to restore power to some homes in the oakland hills has taken longer than expected after a huge pine tree fell. it hit power lines on sky way line cutting off electricity to people this morning. we got a phone call from the family that usually picks our kids up and say we can't get down to your road there's a tree blocking it and we had to finish things out. crews have been working since dawn to repair those downed power lines. they expected the work to be done by 4:00 and just got off with the phone of a representative of pg and e and they are still at work. the tree had to be removed

until the repairs could be started. well onto the weather, another beautiful day in the bay area and we were talking about the situation in the midwest and back east, what a contrast compared to our weather. >> i mentioned last night when they are cold we are usually hot and when we are wet they are usually dry. the jet stream is like a roller coaster and we are in a ridge of high pressure. temperatures above the average, we had 70s today and lots of 60s, no fog and some wind. we go outside and the only weather feature i can find visible are the clouds, a little bit of clouds by port rinna and you see that's nothing, just a few high clouds and moving off. we got a nice day ahead or a nice week ahead and there's no rain in the forecast. let's go to san jose. temperature right now in san jose 59 degrees, 61 in mountain view. it is just kind of above average temperatures. more current temperatures for

you out there. 61 in oak land. where is the fog? the northeast winds that we have now and they have gusts, you saw the tree down, the winds have cleaned out the lower atmosphere so there's not much moisture for fog. not a lot of fog formation, maybe little bits and pieces but not for tomorrow, your thursday. sunny, i called it warm, relative, if this was summertime i would say this is mild to cool but for february i say 65 degrees, 70 is warm. the extended forecast we are dry, long term models bring no rain until somewhere around february 14th or 15th. that will change or that could change but just know that the main pattern is this high pressure staying right over the top of us. we are going to see the winds begin to evade and maybe more fog but that's it we are staying in this pattern. i got specific forecasts highs for your neighborhood and the

thing will you notice tomorrow morning are temperatures cooler than they have been, mid and low 30s. we will talk about that and look at the long-range forecast. the world most famous ground hog had good news for those people deep in snow in the northeast and midwest. >> spring it will be! >> we'll see about that. punxsutawney phil emerge the and did not see his shadow. according to legend, that means an early spring. thousands break frigid temperatures in punxsutawney pennsylvania for thissal ground hog day's events. >> the san francisco giants world series trophy is in another city as part of a 30- city tour that began on january 4th. on public display at this hour at the stone ridge shopping center in pleasantton. if you want to see it, it will only be in the grand court at the mall until 6:00 tonight. city council has also declared this to be san francisco giants

day. a pair of oakland pitbulls that attacked another dog are expected to come home. what neighbors in that area are doing to get ready. we'll have that for you at 5:30. we'll take a live look at that gorgeous skyline. and there's a new plan under foot to make all of these buildings more energy efficient. and school bus cuts. which bay area city could lose school bus service to a dozen schools and how you can weigh in.

we're monitoring the central square in cairo and supporters of president mubarak are charging against anti- government protesters. the violence has escalated. as of right now we know that three people are dead and some 600 others are injured. it looks quiet but earlier we were bringing you pictures of people charging on camel and horseback and throwing molatov cocktails. this is after president mubarak refusing to step down. we will bring you more on ktvt at six. a young graduate student from the bay area is hoping to fly out of egypt tomorrow. sarah layton talked to us by phone from cairo about the mood on the streets. >> it was confrontational and the the supporters were bringing a different energy to

the whole thing. they were there to get into people's faces and yell at them. >> layton is 22 years old and is from el saba, a graduate student studying in cairo on a fellowship. but in recent days she has been an eyewitness taking photos of what is going on and calling the bay area radio stations of the uprising in egypt. >> the attacks and this outbreak of violence is not enough to make me feel not safe in my apartment or neighborhood but worried about what is coming next. >> sarah hopes to return to cairo next month to resume her studies but the situation now is so unstable that her plans are in limbo. a new program got under way to help businesses in central oakland to be more energy efficent.

the mayorattended the kickoff and it is hoping to help businesses by installing energy- efficient lighting and another economic benefit. >> at the same time we hope to create jobs and have a job training program. >> a two year, five million dollars stimulus grant from the california energy commission will help businesses pay for the changes. in a reversal epa officials exempted a power plant from strict new greenhouse gas and air pollution rules. the proposed project is a power plant built on 25-acres of land in king county, about 55 miles from fresno. there was a lawsuit about the delay. and this week the officials relented saying that the plant and 20 other projects nationwide would be grandfathered in and exempted

from the greenhouse gas law. lawyers for the man convicted of murdering chan ra levy are asking for a new trial based on claims of juror  misconduct and improper closing arguments by prosecutors. the jury found the defendant guilty of murder of 1st degree murder nearly after a decade after levy disappeared. she graduated from san francisco state, sentencing for the defendant is set for next friday. there will be a moot court competition that will start in a half hour at u.s. berkeley. judge william fletcher and supreme court sonyasutomeyer. why does animal control say it is right that two pitbulls

are coming home. on this dry dock, one of the moth shift will be recycled. why it is a draw for mall seekers and sight seekers.

we're very concerned as neighbors and citizens. >> what they are concerned about are two pitbulls that are being returned to their owner at any moment now. last week those pitbulls killed an elderly woman's dog in front of her as she was taking it for a walk. rob roth is live in the oakland hills where neighbors are going door to door with a warning. rob. >> reporter: frank, we're on broadway where the pitbulls are scheduled to be returned home

and neighbors are going door to door passing out flyers making it clear they don't want the dogs in their neighborhood. >> just informing other neighbors. >> reporter: they went door to door to alert neighbors about the pitbull attacks and that dogs are returning. >> we are very concerned as neighbors and citizens that we have dangerous dogs living amongst us. >> reporter: we reported last week that camilla hill was walking her dog on thursday when the dog was malled to death by two pit bulls that lived near by. a flower memorial marks where it occurred. the pitbulls are designated as potentially dangerous until today when officers are scheduled to release the dogs. >> they are apologetic and sorry and unfortunate incident but they are making steps to make sure that it won't happen again. >> this woman witnessed the attack and says returning the

dogs has undermined the sense of the security of the neighborhood. >> so that these dog owners, as far as i'm concerned for their vanity and ego of wanting to own pitbulls and have this killing machine on the end of a leash. it just is not right. >> we will avoid this part of the street and i hope they don't get out again. >> reporter: the dog's ownernot return our call. there will be a vigil on friday. since the dogs did not attack a human being the owners do have the right to keep the dogs. oakland animal care and control says the dog owners have agreed to follow a list of safety precautions. the owners must not post a sign on their house warning that the dogs are designated as potentially dangerous.

also keep the dogs muzzled and on short leashes when they are out dogs and dogs are to be kept in crates when they are not home. a man was charged with touching girls inappropriately. 25-year-old keith woodhouse is charged with 14 counts of lewd acts on a child younger than 14. five children complained that he touched them inappropriately. san francisco school officials plan to cut school bus service to nearly a dozen schools, first they want to hear from the community. at a meeting last night the board of education reviewed the initial list of schools that could see cuts based on need. garfield and grafton and francis key and marsha and marera low ma'am and jean park are and georgepy body and

sunset and qwit elementary schools. people can submit comments and fill out a survey on local schools. it is dirty but welcome work for more than 100 people who will be hired to strip and dismantle a cargo ship. this is a huge project. >> reporter: you can see the dry dock, full of water but no ship. we were here this morning waiting for the ship to arrive from the moth ball fleet but its arrival was delayed. it is a small bump but a good one to bring jobs here. >> when idle the dry dock looks like a stagnant tub of water, fascinating to people like paul carter. >> my being in the navy for 26 years i have a lot for ships. >> he was waiting for the

arrival of the ship. it is destined for this dry dock where it will be stripped of paint and scraped. >> i didn't think it would happen. >> the dry docks were closed for 20 years and it took more than 6 years and red tape to reopen them so that the ships can be recycled on the west coast for the first time. >> it made sense to bring them here 600 miles away. it will employ more than 120 people. dave calvin is one of the 3000 applicants. >> it will be nice to have a job where i live instead of driving to south city. >> this is a lot of men and a lot of women carrying torches and moving forklifts and operating cranes. >> the project will bring millions to the local economy but today a temporary disappointment for spectators as the ship did not come in.

>> i will definitely be back tomorrow. a last minute inspection this morning follow by high winds was to blame for the delay. the 17 million-pound ship is scheduled to arrive at nine tomorrow. ken prichard. analysts anticipate slight gains in the retailers report sales for january. that would come after robust sales during the holiday season but analysts say january snowstorms kept a lot of  shoppers home during a slow month anyway and that could mean discounts. aaa that watch pump prices say that the gas inched up, a gallon of gas is 3.11. three cents higher than one month ago and 45 cents higher than one year ago. as usual bay area price are

higher than elsewhere. it is 3.44 in san francisco and 3.38 in oakland and 3.39 in san jose and all of those prices are up about five cents from one month ago no reason was given for the increases. coming up next, developing news involving o.j. simpson. also is there life out there? an amazing discovery, what astronomers are seeing in space. and it is out. the first edition of an online newspaper. a majestic retreat is struggling and what it is doing in hopes of fixing its financial troubles.

the clermont hotel and spa has filed for bankruptcy so it can reorganize finances. it suffered from the stoppage of high end travelers. the own owner plans to keep it open during the reconstruction. murdock unveiled the daily, the news ap is free for the first two weeks and then it

works out to less than 14 cents per day for news delivered to your i pad. the wireless company, verizon will take preorders for the apple iphone. it will sell them next thursday and we learned that best buy will be carrying them. the phone costs $199 for the 16 gigabyte and 299 with a two- year contract. android users will be enjoying it. google is launching a place for its ap. it will let users buy apes from computers and have them, installed to their smart phones. it was previously available only on androids. starting on march 1st, a prepaid card will be the only way to ride the clipper. you can buy it online or on the phone or at walgreen's. if you have a day pass or one-

way ticket, you can buy a paper ticket at the station. how a flashlight and a telescope can help explain today's spending scientific discovery about planets still ahead. and i'm tracking some warm temperatures now but it's going to get cold in your neighborhood tonight. down to the 30s in some places.

representatives gabriel gifford's husband will decide whether he will be on board the

space shuttle endeavour in april. according to mark kelly's twin brother scott who is the commander of the space station. kelly has been on leave to attend to his wife that was injured in the january 8th shootings in tucson. bay area scientists announce a spectacular discovery suggesting that planets are likely everywhere in the sky. john faller is live in oakland on what it means and how they came to that conclusion. john. >> reporter: astronomers use the ground based telescope and they scanned 150,000 stars looking for the tail-tail but subtle dimming when a plannest goes in front. today making a discovery on stars that are about to set in the west. they measured blips of a sunlight star called keppler

112,000 light years away and discovered six plantest candidates among 1200 new ones and 54 with possibly the right temperature for water. scientists said that this takes them a giant step towards answering the big if. >> maybe life is common around the stars. >> reporter: today's discovery merits one word. >> the results are from the first four months, scanning 1400th of a sky and 50 planets in this part of the milky way could mean thousands in nearby space. >> keppler has blown the lid off of this. >> reporter: they plan candidates from mars size to bigger than jupiter. in decades to come experiments will determine if life can be

supported. >> our grandchildren will have to decide what is the next step, do they want to go there? this is only one step. >> repor the exriments will take several years to create. john faller. ktvt. why the person suspected of killing two people at a store is in the hospital. and a look at some of the other stories. why the secondest largest reservoir in san francisco is dry as a bone. our cameras will show you. what you are looking at are the new images from full load scanners being tested at airports. and u.s. illegal immigrant making it their home, why the numbers are not going down is a

good thing. federal officials will reconsider a decision not to listen the smelt as endangered. it is a cousin to the dolphin smelt which is an endangered species. the fish is found in the bay area to alaska. the fish and wildlife service made the determination regarding this smelt in 2009. environmentalists sued and the feds said they would reconsider promising a decision by this coming september. alike of people are going to like the news that our chief meteorologist will tell us about. a double etched sword, but we are receiving outstanding weather, temperatures in the upper 60s and a 68-degree reading in sanna rossa and we go outside and there are clouds to the north. you see that line of clouds but other than that we are clear. overnight we will see pretty cool temperatures in the inland bay valley. cool this morning as well and no fog to speak of and breezy

in the hills today. and a little bit tonight. these are the highs, 65 in congress and 63 in baleo. high pressure keeps us that way and would have the fog everywhere but the winds, the northeast winds coming out of this high are sinking and they are going offshore. as they sink, they warm and as they warm they dry and it puts the ka bosh on the fog. so tomorrow your thursday it is a repeat and perhaps sunnier or warmer than -- can't be sunnier because it was sunny but warmer in many other places than today. the breezy conditions on wednesday will slightly linger and no fog in the forecast. and we're looking for overnight lows 32 in san rossa and 34 in napa and 34 in fairfield and clear and fog free. not just in the inland valleys but right along the coast. good air quality and typically

this dry warm pattern spare the air day but we are not getting those because the winds have stirred up the atmosphere. this is the computer model, what i want you to note as we go into thursday, look at the cloud cover moving in along the coast and maybe a little patchy fog showing off around point ray and that's the coastal variety and then watch what happens as we get into friday morning. you see a little bit of fog up around point ray and that's coastal stuff and watch saturday. watch everything, here we go, right like that, you will see everything going offshore and you didn't see that. but there was -- at one point in that model you can see everything moving offshore, even the fog which is an indication that saturday is going to be a pretty good warm day with mid-70s possible. right now saturday is the warmest day on the weekend. no rain in the forecast and forecast high in sanna rossa 70 degrees and then 70 or 66 in san jose and cooler in livermore and 66 in half moon bass. i like it to rain. we need the rain. this is the time of year we get

rain. i'm not really that happy about this weather pattern just so you know. but that's what we got so just enjoy it. enjoy the heck out of it because you know how it is when it rains it will rain and hopefully right now it looks like early february, like maybe the 14th or 15th. thanks. late this afternoon o.j. simpson loss his bid to reopen his kidnapping and armed robbery case. simpson is currently serving a sentence of nine to 33 years in a nevada prison for the 2007 robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers in las vegas. he had petitioned a three judge panel, the nevada supreme court to revive the appeal of that conviction. late today the justices turned him down with a two-word ruling, rehearing denied. his attorneys said that he expects the former star will appeal. the storms we told you about earlier are putting a

damper on the superbowl. snowstorms, ice and cold temperatures greeted players and fans arriving to dallas arlington texas. the frigid weather made it tough to get around and there were cancellations of pregame activities. for many fans though it is like rolling out the red carpet. >> let's see, i was up in wisconsin for the last month and it was minus 24 degrees three of the days i was up there so i am used to it. preparations for superbowl xlv this sunday are well under way at cowboy stadium, the texans won't let a little bit of weather get in the way of a great time they say. fans of fairra faucet will get to look at her red swimming suit. ryan o'neal donated it to the museum in washington. it was made famous in a 1976

poster that sended up selling 12 million copies. her charlie angel's scripts and dolls were among some of the items also donated. in healthcare stealing the spotlight from airline safety. what is happening on capitol hill with an aviation bill that could change your flying experience if it ever gets off

of the ground.

democrats have blocked a move to repeal the health care bill. there was an aviation bill being championed by barbara boxer. >> reporter: the u.s. senate decided to tackle a bill that was a slam-dunk before. funding the aviation commission that passed the senate 93-0 last year but ran into roadblocks, now a second chance to approve legislation that upgrades air traffic control operations from 1960s radar to a gps based system allowing planes to fly closer together and land more frequently. >> by doing this, the faa will be able to make our aviation system more safe and efficient. >> reporter: the bill also contains a provision championed by senator barbara boxer,

rights that limit times that planes could be on the runway with passengers trapped board. >> we held heard about planes with overflowing toilets and crying babies. >> reporter: lawmakers debated ... >> healthcare. >> reporter: after republicans tacked on an amendment to repeal and democrats are fighting back. >> it is disheartning that this bill is hijacked by a political debate and not ever bill has to become political. >> reporter: consumer groups say that health care is stealing the spotlight from our safety. >> nobody is coming up to the plate and taking care of the problem and it hurts consumers. >> reporter: even without health care bogging it down the aviation bill faces an uphill battle, the u.s. house is working on its own version and it is anybody's guess it will find common ground. channel 2 news at six is

next. a view few of us will see in our lifetime, find out why this san francisco reservoir has been emptied out for the first time in over 60 years.

it hasn't been done in sixty years but tonight you will see it on 2. why this bay area reservoir is empty. and the unrest in cairo turns deadly. how the bay area is giving a voice to protesters fighting for change in egypt. complete, bay area news coverage starts right now. this is kbg channel 2 news at six. good evening, i'm frank summerville. >> and i'll julie haener. for decades it has provided water to san francisco but tonight it is bone dry. david stevenson is the only reporter taken inside of the university mound reservoir where critical seismic upgrades are being completed. >> reporter: take a look behind me. construction work for the evening is done up here up top but this morning we got inclusive work being done underground and it is a few