it's all ahead at the ktvu morning news. good morning, thank you for waking up with us. it's monofebruary 28th i'm pam cook. here is steve paulson. it feels cool. >> it does. not as bad as on saturday morning and sun morning. higher clouds have come in. we have seeing upper 30s instead of low 30s. it's still coal. to the north we have sunshine. here is sal. steve highway 4 traffic looking good coming up to the willow pass grade so far. no major problems there. also highway 101 san francisco northbound 101 traffic looks good. let's go back to pam. topping our news this morning construction will again in the newest section of the bay bridge.

allie rasmus joins us now. >> reporter: good morning, pam construction crews will be at -- will be adding another segment to this tower. once it's finished it will be the center piece of the new eastern span of the bay bridge. that work is expected to start a few hours from now. three of the five segments are already in place. the fourth segment will be added to the top of the tower making it 480 feet tall. once that secondment is up -- you are looking at an illustration from the project website. crews will work around the clock starting today to get the fourth segment into place. the third segment was hoisted into place a couple months ago in december. the work expected to take place later on tea will be similar to

that. a little later on cal tran is expected to have a press conference to give us an update and more details of the work that is supposed to start today. san francisco police are investigating a shooting near the mission district. that happened before 10:30 last night on alabama street. once arrive on the scene they have seen several items on evidence on the road including pieces of clothing and shell casings. police say a 27-year-old man was shot while sitting in a car. an ambulance rush the victim to the hospital with life- threatening injuries. this is the third shooting in two days after two people were kill on saturday. this morning police in santa clara looking for suspects in that first homicide of the year. investigators belief the 31- year-old victim was stabbed in front of a gas station and

stumble across the street where he died. still not clear what lead up to the killing. neighbors and police agree deadly violence like this is rare in santa clara. >> it's not typical. this is the bay area. calm mostly. we are certainly not immune to crime but santa clara is a safe city overall. >> this is the first inside since april of last year. concern is growing by the hour for an illerly -- for an elderly san francisco man. care givers at his assisted living home put him on a bus for a day trip to a nearby senior center but he hasn't been seen since. dozens of volunteers searched the golden gate park area. a north bay area is

renewing a common call this morning. friends and family hill a fundraiser -- held a fundraiser. he was crossing the street with her two-year-old daughter that's when police say an 18- year-old driver using the cell phone hit the mother and daughter. kali died in the accident. >> don't use your phone. that is the bottom line. it's not worth taking a life. >> community members organized yesterday's fundraiser hoping to raise $20,000. new this morning four americans are dead after a private plane crash in the united arab imanswer. the u.s. embassy says they were in route to saudi arabia.

the americans identities have not been released. today president obama meets with u.n. secretary general at the white house to discuss the political uprising in libya. hillary clinton is meeting with european foreign members in switzerland. one idea being discussed is a no fly zone over libya. and in libyanty government demonstrators have taken over a city 45 miles from the city of tripoli. that's after government switch sides and joined the protestors. gas prices jumped nearly 20 cents a gallon with premium gas selling more than $4 a gallon. that is hurting us in two ways. the first directly. some say it's making it so difficult to make ends meet they will have to make budget

cuts anywhere they can. >> $3.85 a gallon. it's way too high. we can't afford it. >> what will you do? >> the other product is cost of foods. new zealand prime minister says the earthquake that hit could cost the country $15 billion. he announced measures worth $90 million to help pay the people in christchurch that are unable to work. it killed 148 people and destroyed or damaged one-third of the buildings in the city. you can at another name to the list of people vying to be san francisco's next mayor. board of supervisors david chiu is going to announce his

candidacy. there is already several candidates in the race including leeland yee. right now it's 4:37. we want to check in with sal for an early look at the commute. good morning, sal. good morning, pam. traffic is doing pretty well. we haven't ha too many reports or any reports of black ice. it could happen i suppose. or you can see puddles this morning. i did see the windshield was a little crusty with a little bit of frost. it wasn't major. once i got going it was okay. i think you somehow be fine -- i think you should be fine. when you look at the toll plaza traffic is light coming into san francisco. in the south bay northbound 280 traffic is okay. no major problems as you drive the bay area freeways. let's go to steve. all right, sal, thank you. we have a different pattern this week. last day of february.

it looks like the first day of march. it will be a warmer system as the pattern changes. systems are driving in to the north of us. you can see some of the cloud cover toward the north bay. much, much warmer than they had the past couple of mornings. 30s for many. 33 in livermore. nothing like the upper 20s or low 30s we had. it's still coal out there. but not as cold as it was. pretty strong system. we will draw up moisture from the southwest. today is all right. tomorrow we start to cloud it up. we will bring rain and wind in here. tea a mix of sun and clouds. saturday morning more clouds to the north. temperatures in the mid 50s for some. temperatures will be rebounding from the upper 30s for many. sun and clouds today. also low clouds along the

coast. rain on wednesday. showers thursday. we clear it out friday. pam. >> thank you, steve. san francisco international airport is set to ban solicitors from the airport grounds. they will take up the ban at the next meeting tomorrow. they have received 420 complaints from last year by passengers. a report spokesman says free speech will be allowed in designated areas but groups can not ask for money or verbally abuse or touch passengers. the world's fastest yacht is coming to san francisco. the usa 17 is arriving on a cargo ship because it's too tall to sail under the golden gate bridge. the usa 17 arrival will symbolize the beginning of preparations for the america's cup. the yacht won the america's cup

for larry ellison last year. it allowed ellison to choose san francisco to host the 2013 america's cup. wild fires rushed through homes. the local crops lost to cold temperatures and why farmers say the weather is also effecting their future plan. good morning, traffic in marin county looks good as you head south on highway 101 we'll tell you more about the morning commute straight ahead.

good morning, few clouds mean slightly warmer lows. mid and upper 30s. we'll have sunshine. partly sunny and cloudies. highs today 50s to 60s. an entire town in texas has been ordered to evacuate as wild fires threaten hundreds of homes. 650 people live in madadore. firefighter says high wednesday are making -- high winds are making it difficult to contain that fire. 20 homes have been destroyed. texas prosecutors say they plan to file a charge where a

fire killed four children. jessica tata will be charged with reckless injury to a child. investigators are look into the possibility she left several preschoolers alone in the home when that fire started last week. four children died. two are still in the hospital in critical condition. >> i know the families are struggling with-- this. my heart goes out to them. if convicted the day care owner could face two to three years in prison. the national transportation safety board hearing will be the first time pg&e is grilled pubically about the disaster. the safety agency is months away from concluded why the pipeline exploded. the utility will be likely forced to answer questions about the safety of its system. >> hundreds of pro union

demonstrators in wisconsin are celebrating a victory. authorities have back away from a threat to evict the protestors that have occupied the state capitol for two weeks. they won't face arrests as long as they can't to obey the law. there is no end in site. 14 senate democrats have fled to neighboring counties. >> they knee come back and do what they were elected today. they don't have to support it. >> the ball the centers on the -- the battle centers on collective bargaining for government workers. another earthquake in arkansas. a 4.7 magnitude hit late last night. there have been more than 750

earthquakes in the area since october. researchers say they could be naturally occurring swarms. no one has been hurt. no damage has been reported. tornadoes caught on tape along the state line of kansas and oklahoma. take a look at this. meteorologist say the formation is part of a super cell moving through oklahoma and parts of kansas. golf ball sized hail is pounding the area along with damaging wednesday. there are no reports of injuries or serious damage so far. our overnight weather was slightly warmer than what we had at the end of last week. sellers at the marin county farmers market say they lost a lot of crops to the freezing temperatures. carrots and beets survived the chill but lettuce and fruit trees that had blossomed had

hit hard with the cold. >> when we get down to the 20s then you start losing stuff. you lose the tips off the mandrin trees. >> the problem isn't just with produce they also have to wait for warmer weather to plant their spring crops so those won't be damaged as well. a worker at a restaurant was trapped inside a freezer while the building around him burned. the fire started in the kitchen when the workers started heating oil. he went into the restaurant freezer when he couldn't get out the oil caught fire. fire crews didn't find anyone in the building at fist. then they heard someone in the freezer. a large protest is expected this morning. veterans for peace, grandmothers against war, and

military families say they are opposed to the use of military robot drone planes. cindy is also expected to be there. the protest begins at 7:00 this morning. well, a big win for royalty at this years academy awards. we will recap. plus how a college cheerleader nearly cost his team a huge upset. good morning, traffic in marin county looks good coming in and leaving the county. we'll tell you more about the morning commute when the morning news continues.

welcome back back to the morning news. 17 people died after being

elect cuted during a parade. police say fire works -- dozens of people were also hurt. an investigation is under way in what caused a natural gas line explosion in cleveland, ohio. that fire was contained after the gas line was shut off. crews had been aware of a leak on that line since sat. they were working to repair it. no one was hurt. right now it's 4:51. we want to go back to sal. how is the commute? we are doing pretty well if you are driving on 880 northbound. it looks good heading out to the oakland area. 580 also looks good. let's move along and take a look at highway 4. westbound highway 4 is okay. they had word of a pothole that

was in one of the lanes and they are checking for it. this was highway 4 near port chicago. we will find out whether or not it was a big pothole or not. we say that was highway four at leverage road. let's move along and take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. that traffic is light so far. let's go to steve. thank you, sal. we have a little change here today. it's not as cold. it's still cold. nothing like we had over the weekend. we ha 20s -- we had 20s and record lows. a mix of sun and clouds today. tomorrow increasing clouds. this is it for february. as we go into march we see rain returning on sunday. we will see a milder warmer system. the weekend saturday is okay. sun may be a lot of -- sunday may be a lot of rain.

it looks like the cold pattern is changing. system to the north moving right there. it's curving north and heading north. the farther north you go possibility of rain. 42 ukiah. not the 28 or 29 you had a couple days ago. livermore at 33. fairfield 37. so is concord. mountain view 39. napa target forecast today starting off with clouds. 36 and then we will go 50 for a high today. you can see how weed that ha clear -- you can see how we had that clearing. it will draw moisture from right there. today if you go toward the south bay you will find a little bit more sun. if you go to the north bay you

will find a little more cloud. cold lows but nothing like we had. more clouds farther north you go. 50s to low 60s. antioch 60 degrees. san jose 60 degrees. inching up each day on the highs. sun and clouds today. wednesday and thursday showers. friday looks okay for you pam. >> thank you. a college cheer legal almost cost his basketball team a big win. it happened in last seconds of overtime. louisville grabbed the rebound. got it to the other end of the court for a slam dunk. the crowd started celebrating and a cheerleader grabs the ball throws it into the air. there was time left on the clock. so the cardinals were assessed a technical foul. pittsburgh hit both free

throws. louisville hung on for the win. celebrities hit the red carpet in hollywood for the 83rd annual academy awards. this felt more like a coronation. >> and the oscar goes to the king's speech. >> the king's speech beat nine other movies last night to take home oscar's top prize. collin stars in the movie as british royal. others include natalie portman. christian bail took home the best supporting award. and our own emery based pixar studios toy story three won for best animated feature. the oscars were a backdrop

for an important cause. people joined for the academy of friends oscar party. >> it's amazing there are so many people here to support hiv and see it in this economy and have people come out and support fundraisers and events it's great. >> in its history the academy of friends has raised $8.5 million to help in the fight against arizona. for arizona -- fight against aids. don't look now but the new bay bridge tower is growing taller today. here is a live picture at the construction. and a request to alter a memorial for the jones town

massacre is prompting an outrage.

starting today this tower here behind us will get a little taller. we'll tell you about the work plan for the new bay bridge.

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