. complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is the 10:00 news on ktvu channel 2news. >> japan faces mounting emergencies from friday's disasterrous quake and tsunami. the death toll there is soring and officials are responding to another explosion at a power plant. good evening. i'm heather holmes. >> i'm ken wayne. we will have the latest in a moment. first developing news in the east bay before bart crews working to restore service after a train derailment. the aftermath of the derailment that left two cars jack knifed near the concord station. right now workers trying to

clear the tracks to restore train service but will they have the job done in time for tomorrow morning? deborah has been monitoring the situation all night and is live with the very latest. >> reporter: they are going to be out here working all night long. take a look. they have a huge crane and behind those bushes are the tracks and the cars that they need to get realigned. right now there is no service east of pleasant hill either direction and there may not be for monday's rush unless they beat the clock. a huge clean is here to pluck two 70-foot bart cars off the tracks and set them down straight. 30-tons each like toy, they jolted riders this morning when they jackknifed. >> quakes, like a bomb. you know what i'm saying, scary. >> something like this has never happened so scary. >> reporter: we were over the

derailment minutes after it happened. the train had just left concord station for san francisco when the second and third to last cars jumped the tracks. a stand still stretched in to the night. >> it's not like you will pick it up. >> reporter: spokesman said engineers decided a bigger crane should be broughtn. the camera on top of our news van shows it's slow because tracks need repair to. if it's not done in time people will ride from bay point to here, take a bus around the gap and then reboard a train in pleasant hill or walnut creek. bus bridges worked today but it would take 60 to carry a peak load. >> its going to be tight if we do have to put this plan in place and won't be enough buss and customers won't be happy and we won't be either. >> reporter: the 20-mile section of bart now shut down carry ten thousand people weekday mornings, on the bright side nobody was hurt beyond a

few folk was back pain. let's take a live picture looking at work continuing. the cause of the derailment uncertain and again bart does hope to have things back to normal in time for the drive. we want to be sure to check the morning news and website, reporting live in concord, ktvu channel 2news. >> new to japan where the scope of the nuclear crisis there appears to be getting worse with every hour bringing word of a new problem. the latest, a second explosion at the plant. this picture showing the blast at the top in the yellow circle a plum of smoke and the walls falling down. can compare to the same building underneath. several workers are injuried seven are missing. officials say the cores have partly melted they are using sea water to try to stop a full meltdown. the government has evacuated almost 200,000 people near that plant.

according to officials the level of radiation outside reactor is double what is considered to be safe. >> two thousand bodies were found in one town alone. there are still more than 10,000 people missing. a senior official calls it the worst crisis in the 65 years since the war. this is video as the tsunami crashed on shore in the northeast town. as if an invisible wall turned the ocean on its side. boats, cars, all caught in the force, thrown over walls and under bridges. countless people lost in waves. >> someone shouted there is still another person. >> reporter: the rush continues to find anyone still alive.

three elderly people pulled from a car after 20 hours there. alive but shaken. >> this woman said that she was washed away by the waves. >> reporter: this is what is left of a town where 18,000 people once lived. now nothing but rubble. survivors say they how homes, cars and people swept out. this man ran when the tsunami sirens blaired but said many of the elderly were left. this man remembers the chill of the water. >> i thought i was dying when i was pushed in to the water. my thoughts were for my family. i decided to make every effort to survive. >> reporter: and this woman credits a large tree and a floor platt for saving her when the wave grabbed her she grabbed the tree and as the water washed around her she saw a floor mat and got on if, drifting to higher ground and

safety. her daughter though like so many others washed away in the waves has not been found. tonight we have a remarkable story of survival to tell you about. two days now after the quake a military vessel rescued a 60- year-old floating nine miles out to a's he was clinging to the roof of his house waving a red flag. >> to try to save power rolling blackouts are in effect in japan. about two million housing are without power all together. >> we are live in tokoyy and are live on skype. >> reporter: hello. it is about 2:00 in the afternoon here on monday. we just got back into our hotel room. we experienced our first after shock just about four hours ago and i had a rental phone from japan, this was great because

it started going crazy just a few seconds before the after shock. it has a quake alarm i set as soon as i got it so i had a few seconds warning but we felt the hotel room shaking. it was brief but when i looked on the website it was about a 5.0. even down here we are still feeling the effects of the quake. we do have video i understand that just came in from the area. rescue workers and efforts that have been going on since the quake -- a source said bay area rescue teams have been put on stand by to come if to japan to help and of course we showed you this morning the rescue teams we met at the airport when we were coming in. there were teams germany, another from taiwan. they were going to try to make it up to the where the worst of

the damage is. here in tokoyk you can tell from earlier when we were on that we haven't had the blackouts here in the central part of tokoyo. we are in the area like the capitol hill of tokoyo. we have been monitoring and there was a news conference in the past hour where they will hold off on the rolling blackouts here in the area at least for the time being because many of the trains have been shut down and that's helped them save more power than they expected. here everybody is talking about this, it's very tense, the transportation system has been in chaos, we were at the station, bullet trains have been shut down up north and people are just rushing right now to try to get to where they need to be. >> you talked about the transportation problems. how are relief supplies getting to -- i know there are american

military bases. are they being helicoptered up there, ships going up, trains being used to take materials and supplies, rescue people own there to northern japan in. >> ken we are hoping -- have an appointment set up in just about a half hour to talk to one of the people from the foreign ministry who is a former san francisco resident. we will get answers to many of those questions when very been hearing so they are using some helicopters to drop supply there is but it's very, very difficult, you know, when the power temperature is trained and power is needed to help get some of the things in there, we do understand that some of the roads are closed down so they can let the emergency crews get into the area because obviously from the pictures i'm sure you are seeing a lot of the roads, lot of the area, the structure is devastating. >> thank you. janet reporting live. the damaged structure going to

make the recovery efforts all that more difficult. we look forward to hearing from you. >> we are hearing stories of fear from bay area residents caught in the quake zone in japan. maureen naylor has been talking to people who described several days of worry and how the mounting nuclear crisis. >> last few hours we talked to several people at sfo. many of them on their way to japan. we talked to some who just returned. >> the stores empty, no bread, no eggs. >> reporter: family members welcomed a native home. she lives in japan with her husband and two sons. >> with the nuclear reactor we decided it wasn't worth it to stay. we took the next flight out. >> reporter: she said the 8.9 quake was noticeablely more violent than the 1989 quake here. >> we drove back across the

bridge and saw part of the marine on fire and it was scary but the shake itself wasn't that bad, the shake -- i could even imagine. we were walking home from kinder depart ken it was crazy. the ground shook so hard we had to sit down. we couldn't stand up. >> so crazy. >> reporter: this father was also in japan. his biggest worry the tsunami warning threatening his family here in the bay area. >> we live two blocks the beach in san francisco. my first fear was my family. we to get out. >> reporter: he showed us pictures of the packed train stations saying his half hour ride took five. this flight left for japan tonight that woman is one of the people on board the plane worried about the condition of her 90-year-old father in law who survived the worst hit area. they are warning rolling blackouts may affect the

international flight though we checked and they sadza for its all on schedule. reporting live at sfo, maureen naylor. >> talk of meltdowns and radiation is raising concerns here as japan struggles to control its damaged reactors. connecticut senator has asked for the construction of new plants here in the united states. he addressed safety this morning. >> i think it calls on us here in the united states naturally not to stop building the power plants but to put the brakes on it right now until we understand the consequences of what's happened in japan. >> he said 23 of the 104 plants in the united states have a similar design to the damaged one in japan. >> in the first business day since the quake struck japan's stock market is reeling. the average lost almost 500 points, close to 5% and now the

market has stabilized. the central bank put in a record 15 trillon y en into the country's money markets. the triple disaster of the quake, sufficient sue and nuclear danger are a huge blow. coming up later more on the impact of the disaster in japan including how the bay area is mobile eyeing to help those suffering. >> the santa cruz harbor remains closed after that tsunami from japan as crews race to remove boats and make sure there is no damage. >> he was taking pictures one minute and gone the next. new information tonight about the man swept out to sea by a tsunami surge. >> wet weather picked up across the bay area. mark is coming up with the rain totals and where it's still raining right now. the 10:00 news continues in 90 seconds.

. no word on when the harbor in suspecta cruz will reopen to boat traffic after the friday tsunami as jim vargas expains crews are working to remove sungen boats and are raising to limit environmental damage. >> reporter: they may be pulling sungen and damaged boats out of the harbor for the

next week. state fish and game spokesman said that so far the environmental damage and harm to wildlife has been minimal. >> we think we dodged a bullet because most of the boat that were damaged are private vessels with minimal amount of fuel. we are thrilled that the environment hasn't been devastated. like in other places. >> reporter: like crescent city. >> right. most of their vessels were commercial vessels with a lot of fuel as opposed to three or four. >> reporter: fish and game and the coast guard continue to look for the debris and fuel leak that could damage the environment. >> the types of pollution we are seeing could be everything from oil that was on board a vessel or in the tank, to anything that may be on board a boat. >> reporter: 18 boats were sunk. owners and officials still trying to find how many were hurt in the tsunami. >> you can tell why the dabbling happened where it did. here we have a wide channel and

then it all narrows and then the water pressure rushed out. udock and some of the boats were destroyed, some good news, lucy the goose who has live there's more than 25 years survive the ordeal just fine. in santa cruz. >> by some numbers the damage totals along the california and oregon coastlines have reached the 50 million-dollar mark and are rising. crescent city, morro bay and the berkeley marina sustained damage. the fall out will ripple across the community. >> we are learning more about the plan swept to sea near the mouth of the river by that tsunami. the family of dustin weber said man had just moved there from oregon to try to get a fresh start on life. i was taking pictures of waves from the tsunami when he was

pulled into the ocean. the man is presumed to have drowned so the coast guard called off the search on friday. the national weather service suicide it's warning website was not up to the job. the west coast and warning center website slowed to a crawl on friday when tens of thousands of people tried to get up to date information on the fast moving tsunami. officials say additional band width has been added but they warn that $124 million in budget cuts proposed by congress could cripple their ability to coordinate the complex system that provides tsunami information. >> wet weather returned to the bay area today and is expected to lingerer for some time. mark has his eye on storm tracker two. >> reporter: the rain drops picked up by mid to late afternoon. even there to the evening. still tracking quite a bit of activity. as far as rainfall over the past 24 hours most of the

action favoring the north bay. santa rosa, san francisco and san jose at .012. we are adding to some of the totaling now. here is a look at the storm tracker. very been watching this cell. you can see the yellows and reds to the east of half moon bay and i will bring up the timeline. you can see it targeting these areas out toward san mateo, foster city, right around 10:25. we have quite a bit of activity, yellows and reds,that is heavy rain that will move across the bay. here is the wider perspective on the radar, still quite a bit of activity showing up in the north bay, the greens and yellows, light to moderate rain. even heavier cells targeting nevado. the rainfall will be changing, at least the overall pattern changed overnight and the impact on the forecast. ly have that coming up in a few minutes. >> the sonoma museum of art offering a five thousand dollar

reward for its stolen sculpture. five disappeared. bliss believe someone may have put them in their bag. security improvements are being made. they are worth about $40,000. >> the budget battle is heating up in sacramento. what a bay area lawmaker is hoping will happen tomorrow. >> also gearing up for summer. the new hope the season brings for bay area job seekers.

. jerry brown wants voters to decide if the tax cuts should be extended. the bay area democrat lawmaker is counting on republican help as soon as tomorrow. >> here is the basic math problem. the governor wants to solve a 26 billion-dollar budget

problem like this. take away half by just cutting. make up the other half by extending expiring taxes. to make the second half of that happen he needs voter to approve. to get to the ballot box he needs two thirds of lawmakers on board. >> we have strong majorities of democrats in both houses, it means with two thirds the minority is in control of -- that would be the republicans. >> deadlines already past and looming. the governor set last thursday as a deadline but then extended it. a decision must be made soon if the election is going to happen. >> it could still make the first tuesday june 7th ballot. if we go much longer it could much it to june 14th. >> reporter: he said republicans are still hesitating. >> how do you compromise. what is the governor doing to get on board? >> reporter: they need cover to

cast their vote. not to maintain taxes but just to let the voters have a say in the middle of the crisis. >> reporter: he said this will come down to a give and take. if governors give the company his election they want leeway on pension reform and the state environmental quality act. he hopes to vote form for tuesday at the latest. in oakland. ktvu especially. >> hundreds looking for a summertime job made their way to the concord hilton where water world was holding a job fair. the water park is looking to hire 5 hornworks for the season. it includes everything from marketing and sales coordinator to lifeguard and emergency medical techs. >> there is word of the closure of a bay area shelter for homeless veterans and families. the shelter is on the grounds of the veteran's affairs medical center campus and has

70 much need beds. its part of the nonprofit envision group. because of the economy and other license they can't keep it open and plan to close it at the end of april. managers at the shelter say they hope to reopen some day. caltrans shutting down a street near interstate 880. it is closed until 5:00 a.m. it affects northbound and southbound travel. they have set up detours in both directions. it'll let crews work on the retrofit project. >> a mother arrested fork allegedly killing her 8-year- old daughter. its suspected it was a botched murder suicide. a care taker said she found the 53-year-old crystal johnson and the child inside a car with the motor running. the girl was pronounced dead at the hospital. the mother is expected to recover from her injuries.

>> bay area residents reflect on the devastation in japan and do what they can to help. >> and dramatic video of a helicopter crash in southern california. what caused a chopper to go down.

. the military has mobilizes, aid organizations are offering to help and fundraising is well underway for japan. people are getting together to help those suffering. >> massive quake and tsunami and the after shocks are really constantly in our heads. >> reporter: helping the victims of this disaster was the message for sunday morning prayers at the church.

the church started raising money for victims this weekend. >> good morning. good morning. >> reporter: a majority of the members have family ties to japan. >> when we see those images, those devastating images we feel so helpless. in the being able to go and put sandbags or give a cup of coffee it is one way to connect. >> reporter: across the bay in san francisco's japan town a group of community leaders plan to meet together tomorrow morning. they will coordinate the fundraising efforts for the quick victims. >> because it happened just before the weekend we haven't been able to gather as a group and community to decide what we will do there the future. tomorrow we will get together to discuss what plans we will have many. >> reporter: the feeing organized by the cultural community center in is. they were already taking donations for relief aid. they. >> my sister, is he is there.

i'm sure i can't connect soy don't know. we are just waiting. >> reporter: in san francisco, ktvu channel 2news. > >> in lybia government forts moring eastward to try to regain control of the rebl control towns. as nick robertson reports today they were eager to show off its victory. driving east -- mile on mile of rocketed vehicles, discarded weapons and ammunition. littering the roadside, evidence of a rapid rebel retreat. out gunned outsmarted by government forces advancing from the west. first stop on this government organized trip. this is the police station, it's not clear what happened here but it's the first signs of any real battle we have seen as we have been driving in the highway come agriculture long from the west we have seen

checkpoints panned by a dozen or so soldiers and in the town we have seen most of the stores closed, but this station is the first sign of battle, pretty smashed up. the windows here at front. reinforced glass all destroyed, blown out, blown up and shots fired out. being fired by soldiers, they have just been coming back from what appears to be the direction of the frontline, some sort of sell operation for the samaras here. how far government forces have advanced beyond the oil fire, where the frontline is remains unclear. what is clear is that the government is on a roll and the reb el, s are retreating almost as fast as they can. nick robertson. >> and enother news, in yemen

at least one student was killed during crack down on government protesters. it was chaos in the streets. fights broke out between demonstrators. police broke up crowd was tear gas and live bullet bulletless. the violence after multiple attacks that killed seven protesters. the united states continues to young officials to end the violence. in israel thousands came for the funeral of five members of a family killed in their home in the west bank. the 12-year-old found her parents and sibling including a baby with their throats slashed. israel is condemning the act. in spite of the violence the government approved expansion of four more settlements in the west bank. in paris protesters stood in the shadow of the tower to call on the government there to move away from nuclear power and towards cleaner energy sources.

the protesters say the trouble in japan illustrates the dangers of nuclear power. nuclear power is the main source of power in france. >> helicopter pilot in southern california was pulled from his burning air craft just before it exploded in to flames. it happened this morning in the los angeles county city of el segundo. the helicopter was trying to lift an air conditioning unit from the roof of an office building when something went wrong. it clipped the side of the building and crashed. the pilot was put in the pop with serious injuries. no word on the cause. new orleans police say someone opened fire in a bar this weekend killing an 18-year- old and wounding four younger teens. police say it happened during a party at the bar. the other victims girls, ages 14, 16 and 17 and a 15-year-old boy. the 16-year-old girl is in critical condition. all the other victims stable. there is no word on a motive.

>> it's unclear who caused a tour crash that killed several people. the driver said he was hit by a big rig. police say the truck driver contacted them shortly after the crash and now is contra districting what the bus driver said. they are trying to determine what was at fault. if one city it's art for art's sake. a special show of. >> and coming up mark is tracking the current rain and will say what you can expect at the start of your workweek.

. it took time for the rain to its act together but we have been tracking cells. right now on live storm tracker two you can see the activity. this happens to about the loop over the past two hours. the most recent intake a look at the southern half of the bay area. also around the east bay those darker shades of green still link up with at least moderate cells now, closer to san leandro. we will move the maps up to the northern half of the area. especially sonoma. there is that yellow showing up between sonoma and napa. that -- the wider perspective, tracking two areas, the

northern and southern half. the overall weather story, we have the clouds in place and the rain, for tomorrow, clouds and sun, quite a few clouds, temperatures on the mild side. the extended forecast, multiple storms and temperatures cooling off as we head toward the weekend. here is a look at the weather system moving in to the state, another one sloping, this front at system will move automatic of town. the rain moves out and for tomorrow, for ton the chance of a few morning sprinkles. skies partly to mostly cloudy. temperatures still on the mild side. the warmest locations approaching the low to mid60 he this begins tomorrow morning at 11:00 o'clock all the way to 11:00 p.m. waves could be onto order of ten to 15 feet. it could be extended in to

tuesday because the swell could tb to build into tuesday. here is the forecast model. the possibility of a few sprinkles. as you can see still scattered clouds out there by 3, 4, 5:00. by the evening hours, the clouds will be on the increase out in advance of the tuesday system. tomorrow morning the chance of a few sprinkles. 48 to 53 degrees. mostly cloudy, 57 to 62, scattered closes and the event temperature range with most areas in the 60s near the immediate shoreline. san jose 67 degrees. here is a look ahead. it'll be a busy week. few sprinkles into -- chance of a shower into thursday. looks like cooling off in to the weekend with more rain chances and maybe now snow in the bay area hills. >> thank you mark. school budget cuts leading

classroom was marely more than the essentials for teaching but there is still a passion to save other programs including art. >> on the call walls of this gallery you get a look in to the hearts and talents of the city's youngest artists. >> you can tell by looking at work that they are happy, healthy, normal kind of kids, that's encouraging. >> there are 208 works of art. it hasn't been seen in eight years. the reality of budget cuts has been tough for school art programs everywhere. the nonprofit group is not immune. it's funding cut in half. the executive director said the talent shows us just how much is at stake. >> it's closer under a lot of pressure for a lot of testing and they are under financial strain as well. the money isn't there, parent groups doing a great job

stepping in, people need to understand how important art for children reallys. >> it's dedicated to a middle school student and budding artist who died last year. the executive director said they want to celebrate her life through her art and hope it continues to serve as inspiring to other kids. ktvu channel 2news. >> organizers say the future of the exhibit depends on the response, the show runs through april 3rd and we have posted information and pictures from the website. it's college basketball selection sunday. >> that's right and the gales talk about being snubbed. joe with the winners and losers.

. good evening. welcome to this late sunday night edition. if you are a basketball team with ncaa aspirations you don't want to leave it with the selection commit eye. that's something the guys found out today firsthand. after losing in the finals the gales were left with the record of 25-8, waiting and hoping to land the at large berth. the regular season co champions gathered students this afternoon as the field of 68 was announced, hope was that the team's body of work throughout the season would be recognized by the committee. 68 team assonanced and the gales weren't one of them. the head coach. >> it's -- it's tough as a -- as a program to done what they