the back upstretched for miles in a busy bay area freeway until effort to clear these lanes finally got traffic moving again. good evening i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. just before 3:00, authorities

closed lanes in both directions in millbrae. eric rassmusen was one of those caught in traffic. >> reporter: it looked like a passing truck might have hit the wires that was attached to the utility pole. the overhead wires is something we look out for every time we set up to do a story. but you don't expect to hit them as you're moving. >> reporter: traffic is snarled for miles in both directions. >> reporter: chp got calls from drivers who said a passing semi truck hit and broke the wires snarling traffic. it's been two hours since those wires went down. as you can see we are still moving at a crawl miles from

where this all happened. the back up got even worse as we got closer to the scene. finally an at&t ran into the middle of the freeway. at times jumping to grab thelines and clear them from the middle of the road. once chp cleared all of the lines, investigators turned their focus to finding the truck and driver responsible. >> do you have any sense that this driver should have stopped. should have realized what happened? >> at this point we don't know if he even noticed that his truck might have hit the lines. >> reporter: at this point, they just don't know if the wires there were too low or that truck was too high. chp officers do tell me it is a gray and black flat truck with the letters e and m on the side. >> here's the truck's license plate number it is 4r23454. it is a flat bed.

according to the highway patrol it might say e & m trucks or something similar on the side. we are learning about an increase in car thefts and burglaries. it includes crimes through last saturday and it shows that 105 cars have been stolen city wide so far this year. that works out to about 10 a day. now the biggest increase is in the police central district. 90 cars have been stolen there. that's an increase of 125%. the engle side district led the way. there is a twist to tell you about tonight in the barry bonds perjury trial. in court today the prosecution called bonds surgeon as a

witness. but as ktvu's rita williams reports, the doctor wound up making points for the defense. >> reporter: barry bonds ortheopedic surgeon testified for. he said that decreased sexual drive and desire, weight gain acne may have been caused by the steroids he was given for treatment. kathie hosman testified that

she sometimes saw bonds and his trainer greg anderson disappear into a room in bonds home. but she testified that one day, bonds just said do it here. then bonds lifted his shirt and quote he shot barry in the belly button. and barry said that's a little manager something to help me when i go on the road. you can't detect it kathi hosmann says she didn't call federal agents, her brother sent them to her. he threw me under the bus, that's why i'm here. the prosecution expected to complete its case when court resumes here monday. in san francisco, rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. more details now the prosecution's last witness started testifying today. dr.don ketland is considered one of the country's top anti doping experts. he testified that balco is clear or thg is the only

designer or new steroid ever found. a urine sample bonds gave major league baseball back in 2003 tested positive for thg. police picked up saleem bey for failing to show up. saleem bey said he was the confidential source. bailey's research was the motive for his murder. bey the fourth and mackey or now on trial. ktvu's amber lee is in the san antonio neighborhood and says parents want to make sure

their kids are safe. >> reporter: people who live in this area call it the track. long known for pimping and prostitution. residents tell us they are now seeing prostitutes who are children, some as young as 12. it took only minutes of driving along international for us to spot a handful of prostitutes in a three block stretch. they all appeared young in their teens and 20s. when i approached one of them, she told me that she's been walking the streets for six years. >> you started when you were about 18. 19. all right. you stay safe, all right. >> okay, thank you. >> someone actually tried to recruit me before. i live down the street on 23rd avenue. >> reporter: ly says that she knows many girls who have been recruited by pimps. >> my husband has been threatened to be murdered for becoming involved, asking people to leave. >> reporter: at a rally today, hundreds of people turned out

to fine out what city leaders will do to help. police chief anthony bats asked residents to stand up and help. >> come out here and let's stand and blow whistles, ring bells and drive these people from our neighborhoods. >> reporter: community leaders say they want the city to provide help for at risk use and shut down area motels such as the national lodge where prostitutes often conduct their business. >> because the neighborhood becomes horrid and help us make cases against these motels that we're going to be moving in closing several of them over the next few months. >> reporter: back here live, i spoke to the patell family who say they try their best to keep out prostitution. amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. the story of a radio

reporter who worked to report on child prostitution. dirt and debris have blocked core road since the weekend trapping dozens of residents. crews got one lane cleared but vehicles were not allowed through because of a downed power line. six homes are now yellow tagged unsafe to occupy. san pablo city leaders held a meeting for homeowners. they hope the government will sign off on an emergency declaration. in mountain view it's a question of who's going to pay for repairs. why the santa clara valley water district says it cannot legally pay for the work. in japan, more radio active contamination from the crippled

nuclear plant reactors was discovered today. plant operators say they found contaminated water beneath the reactors. there is concern that contaminated water will spread into the water source. french president is the first foreign leader to meet with japan's prime minister since the earthquake and tsunami. the french president brought several reactors. a french company supplied fuel to the plant and the ceo says her team will be there in difficult times as well. meanwhile people gathered

in downtown concord's santos park for a candlelight vigil to offer prayer, hope and funds for japan's people. japanese tradition claims that anyone who fold 1,000 origami cranes will be granted a wish. santa rosa are reached a record 86, oakland reached 83. both records highs for this date. and right now i'm tracking a cooldown an even a chance for a sprinkle in the bay area weekend forecast. we'll tell you when that could happen. whether it's a sudan or a six pack, check your receipt tomorrow. sticking shocks as sales tax goes up in the bay area. family members say he was a

good student on the right track. what his mother said at a vigil tonight for her son who's killing is still unsolved.

in parts of the bay area, people are going to be paying more for pretty much everything starting tomorrow. the sales tax is set to increase in half a dozen city. voters approved the tax hike last november.

kt vu's debra villalon is in san cerrito who is going to move into double digits. >> reporter: a sale on a car will be most noticeable. with the paper work done, the new owner of this jeep scores wheels and a sales tax savings. tomorrow sales tax in a handful of bay area cities jump. el cerrito up to 10%. one who bought his family a $500 play station and games didn't know the hike was coming. >> i think it's outrageous.

i don't think they should keep raising the taxes. it makes hard for people who want to go out and buy things. >> reporter: shopping online may be options for consumers who don't want to pay higher tax. >> if it was in fremont and some where not too far and i was going to save, i would probably drive there. >> reporter: in car sales where people you believely want an out of the door tax, the tax will probably be absorbed by the dealer. >> $50, $100 may not seem like a lot to some people. if you're selling $200 cars a year now you're talking about $15,000. sales tax on a car does not depend where it's sold but where the buyer lives. this buyer lives in san leandro that just happens to be another one of the cities going up tomorrow. debra villalon, ktvu news. we have more details now on the city seeing a tax hike

tomorrow. the sales tax in el cerrito goes up to 10.25%. in hayward tonight, thousand s of people held a vigil to try to find clues to a the murder that happened a year ago. ayala was a student at chevo college and wanted to be a physical education teacher. his mother says someone knows something. >> you have to stop, you can't do a code of silence. somebody close to you is going to be killed next. and what then? >> police tell ktvu say they have had no good leads and are hoping that someone will come

forward with leads. and 63-year-old charles redmond is accused of inappropriately touching an eighth grade boy. redmond skipped town heading for mexico after police started an investigation. antioch police learned that redmond had crossed back into california and detectives went into san diego and took him into custody today. plea deals could keep two former pizza parlor employees for vandalizing a rival store front. 33-year-old bryan tucker pleaded guilty to felony vandalism charges today. and 27 sean climber pled guilty to a misdemeanor vandalism charge. back in february they spray painted all over pizza orgasmica. the two worked for extreme pizza two blocks from the store. residents became alarmed when he asked for their social

security. plus his photo i.d. does not match his face. police described the suit wearing man as arab decent. he has tightly curled black hair. san francisco police chief fired back at the public today. he said the video we showed you last night and that led to a drug case being thrown out of court does not show misconduct. continuing coverage tonight from david stevenson. >> reporter: jeff godam this morning fired back at allegations made yesterday by gadachi. >> constantly we're under attack every day by the public defenders office. i'm going to push back. >> reporter: the plain clothed officers are seen on this march 1st video entering an apartment building garage before seizing 8 pounds of marijuana in an

upstairs apartment. a judge yesterday dismissed the case. after he says the video showed the officers lied after they said they were invited into the apartment. seven officers are under investigation at the residential hotel surveillance video raised questions about police raids. >> clearly, we have a situation where not only isolated officers are not telling the truth. but we have groups of officers that are not being truthful. the video shows officers displaying their badges as they leave and don't support the public defenders claim of misconduct. >> this kind of misconduct has been going on rampant around the city . bring it to our attention and we'll deal with it. but you can't continue to scream the sky is falling when it's not. >> reporter: in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu. ed lee said today it's going to be a couple of more weeks before he names his pick

for the new police chief. the police commission has submitted three candidates and the mayor can pick one of them or reject them and start all over. none of the names have been made public. the position opened when chief gascon was made district attorney. authorities say sheep found dead were killed by a mountain lion. federal investigators first thought wounds on the sheep were gun wounds. he says two mountain lions not human beings are to blame. the second day of record

warmth today was outstanding. it won't be this warm tomorrow but it won't be far off. outside right now its warm, it's 64 degrees in santa rosa. 73 in oakland. it's warm out there right now. overnight lows are going to be in the 60s. overnight lows tomorrow with a few clouds. it's going to cool down a little bit. the real story as we head toward your bay area weekend. we're looking for a slight chance of some showers. main impact will be cooler. we'll get to that. overnight lows tonight will be on the mild side. when you wake up tomorrow. a nice day. clouds increase. the chance of sprinkles on the weekend, i'll have the latest computer model. we will look on saturday and sunday and see which days will be the best for your outdoor plans. a dog kylo has authorities to thank for being on safe ground tonight. the cliffs are 200 feet tall but a fire department lieu ten

lieutenant tells us firefighters didn't have to go that far down to rescue the dog. private employers are hiring in a big way. the question is will they do it soon enough to save countless jobs? that story still ahead. and if a creek on private property causes a hill to slide who pays for repairs? that is a dilemma at a mountain view mobile home park where homes are sitting on the edge.

after suffering major set backs. royal rebels in libya say they are not ready to surrender. rebels fought progadhafi forces in the east and the battle went back and forth.

air strikes have taken down 84% of libyan forces. today defense secretary robert gates insisted to congress no american forces will hit the ground in libya. >> do you know if there's any time in the future that there are going to be boots in the town in libya. >> not as long as i'm in this town. >> reporter: gates also said little is known about the rebels, he added another country not the u.s. should arm and train them. >> unemployment insurance claim fell last week to a one month low. the new labor department says the new claim stood at 388,000. private employers added 2,000 jobs last night. but could public employee lay offs delay the recovery? here's how our consumer editor tom vacar revealed today. >> reporter: even a man in the hard hit construction agency now sees reason for hope. >> people seem to be more optimistic. seems to be a lot of money in

people's hands but they are not letting it go. i think it's just a matter of time. >> reporter: mike burnick says even california is now on a role. >> california created 176,000 jobs, that is half of the american nation. so california who had been running behind the nation for basically the past three years in terms of job creation ran well ahead of other states. >> i think we have a real danger of losing thousands of public sector jobs. >> reporter: harley shaken things the up tick here will not last. >> we're sharing job creation in the public sector. we're cutting jobs, the danger here is it damages employment and throttles the recovery in the private-sector. >> on the other hand there's some large areas of regulation that are never talked about in those areas. >> for all workers, private and public, the solution is fewer

of these and a lot more of these but with a lot more pages every edition. i'm consumer editor tom vacar. ktvu channel 2 news. can't wait. like i can't wait for college. the reality california high school students face, what we're learning about new cuts on college campuses. plus, rising prices at bay area dealerships but the reasons behind it may not be what you expect.

it's a one to $2 million question. who's going to pay for a retaining wall to keep mobile homes from falling into a creek in mountain view. we first told you about this last night and ktvu's lloyd lacuesta returned tonight to show us how treacherous the situation still is. lloyd. >> reporter: this is the home of bob burge he's living in a

motel home tonight because you see, his home is red tagged. his home too dangerous to occupy. the backyards have collapsed into stevens creek 30 feet below and it might not be over yesterday. >> reporter: sunday morning i heard a crack. come out the fence is gone. this whole area is gone over here. >> reporter: from his back deck, burnham now has a dizzying look to the ground below. vernum expects to be out of his home for months. >> they say by june or july. because they have to shore it all up. pour cement in and hopefully that will take care of it. >> reporter: but who pays for that one to 2 million retaining wall is the question. the mobile home park wants the water district to pay for half. the district says the creek is

private property. we talked to the district's legal council on the phone tonight. he says the district can only use county money for water quality or water protection. but the mobile home park's general manager says there is an issue of maintaining water quality for the public's good. >> any erosion from our property actually messes up the quality of their water. so it's in their best interest to help us out. >> reporter: talks are under way but this dispute goes back seven years and what was feared has now happened. live in mountain view, lloyd lacuesta, ktvu channel 2 news. pacific gas and electric admits it replaced meters with smart meters in defiance to the

ruling. the utility installed 17 smart meters, 15 for gas, two for electricity replacing meters that had been damaged by a recent flood. pg & e says it is standard procedure to replace broken or worn out meters with new smart meters. the city of capitola has not said what kind of action it will take. and the governor wants to prohibit retroactive wage increases, he wants no more spiking. governor brown released the plan. a fund spokesman said public school teachers contribute 8% of their salaries

to the retirement fund. the state contributes 2%. but the funds still hasn't recovered from a 25% loss during the recession. by law the state must now increase the amount it pays into the fund until there's enough money to meet the funds obligations. as many as 400,000 students including many from the bay area could be turned away from community colleges in california next fall. janine de la vega explains how this is a result of a special election on a tax exception not happening this june -- exemption not happening this june. >> i can't wait. e can't wait for college. >> reporter: tosquino just sent her application to community college. instead of 400 million in cut, the number has doubled to 800 million. the chancellor of evergreen

city colleges is now faced with making excruciating decisions. >> we would be closing the doors to 5,000 5,000 students. to go to those lengths, that means you would be decimating the opportunity for us to educate students. >> reporter: they will be cutting classes and laying off employees. dan campenoli say 60% of students in elk grove go to community college. >> cuts thousands of classes for these prospective community college students they might give up. and that would be horrible. >> she does not want students to give up but says they should be prepared when schedules classes. >> reporter: the chancellor says she wants to partner with

other community colleges. janine de la vega. on wall street, the dow closed in the red dropping 30 points while the nasdaq gained four. but the over all performance during the first quarter was the best during 1998. sales of tesla motors were up today. shares could reach $70. the analysts is bullish because tesla's fremont factory will allow them to build more vehicles than its competitors. if you're on the market for a toyota scion get ready for sticker shock, prices are going up. they say the strong value of the yen compared to the dollar is the reason its raising

taxes. the increases range from $60 to $900. the head of the irs told congress today taxpayers who file electronically can get refunds in as little as three weeks. the irs extended the filing deadline this year to april 18th to be able to accommodate immancipation day. today's event cost $45 but it was a good cause, it went to raising money to troubled youth. organizers said they expected to take in between 60 and

$80,000 tonight. as for the game itself, mark ibanez will show us how it turned out today in sports. a war of words over a cell phone tower. why it has one peninsula city scrambling to make sure it doesn't lose it's internet connection. we'll take a look at the weekend, there's that chance of showers. we'll tell you when that could occur. and a tough night for tia magia. when you can see a live interview with the cast off here on channel 2.

a federal judge in san francisco this week tossed out a class action lawsuit accusing yelp of extorting business. the company accused yelp of

boosting the ratings of those who advertised with yelp. the troubled restaurant chain can't make its loan payments and may file for chapter 11 protection as early as next week. sbarro franchises a thousands of restaurants around the world. many are at malls including here in the bay area. real estate sources tell mercury news the dell is looking to move a bulkover its employees to santa clara. in news of the world tonight in the west african nation of ivory coast. it appears the battle over the disputed presidential election is nearly over. walt era is the international

winner. but roswell has refused to step down. in cabo, they say the country needs a new capital. right now more than 4 million are living there. so they have plans now to develop new cabo city at a cost of $34 billion north of the current city. and they say this could happen quickly unless there is a problem with security. in pakistan, authorities today announced the arrest of the suspected master mind in the bahli nightclub bombing. a total of 2,002 people mostly tourists died in that bombing. the u.s. has offered a million dollars reward for patek who was the most wanted islamic militant in southeast asian. a dispute over a proposed cell phone tower could leave

the government without its free internet service. the church is across the street from a resident who has maintained the city's internet service for the past 17 years. steven stewart told palo alto that the city ignored laws when it approved the tower. and losing his services is a consequence of that. last night we told you about tia megia from the small town of mountain house. tia megia is one of two contestants that were released tonight. tomorrow we're going to talk live with both of the eliminated con tes in

contestants on mornings on 2. record breaking temperatures today but what about the weekend ahead? our chief meteorologist bill martin back in just about five minutes.

developing news out of san francisco at this hour. city firefighters say they have contained a house fire in the 300 block of teddy avenue. the fire started within the hour about 10:15 tonight. firefighters tell us they've pulled one occupant out of the house suffering smoke inhalation. it appears he is the only occupant. the one alarm fire is now contained and firefighters are mopping up. at 90-mile an hour winds created quite a mess in florida.

the tornado went through an airport tosses planes and crippling others. nasa checked for damage. technicians are planning to do a more thorough check after the weather clears completely. endeavors final mission is scheduled for april 19th. mayor ed lee says the city needs to be ready to move an estimated 200,000 people on and off the waterfront each day of the races. the plan calls for big changes for nummi. >> we're going to have to add service. we're already planning for the e line. we're setting up a plan that really focuses on pedestrian and bicycle usage. >> additional plans call for satellite parking lots with bike rentals, bike valet parking along the water front and reopening a tunnel between aquatic park and fort mason to

extend the services to marina. oakland based youth radio has won the prestigious peabody award. the award was for an investigation into child prostitution. ktvu's jim vargas talked to the young woman behind the project. >> reporter: youth radio reporter tejada became familiar with young ladies in prostitution. >> some people are standing in the corner selling fruit. while others are standing in the corner selling a girl. the girls felt comfortable telling us our story and we felt there's something here, let's investigate. the ones that have things in common are that they were kidnapped.

that they have a pimp and are constantly getting abused by them. >> reporter: youth radio introduces teens all over the country to journalism. president helen oleary says this one is more important. >> young ladies getting up and telling the story themselves is what was missing. >> reporter: it's hard to tell what the impact the radio investigation has had on teenage prostitution, now it's up to the local authorities and the people. and welcome back, record warmth two days in a row but not a third dais. tomorrow is going to be slightly cooler. these temperatures impressive though. the high for today just truly five to 6 degrees off of today. those will be your forecast highs. as we head into your friday, right now it's warm out there.

64 in concord. mild outside. overnight lows are in the 60s. it's going to be a nice day tomorrow but the clouds are going to increase. and the wind shift. tonight it's five to 10 miles east. winds are going to start coming out of the west tomorrow midwest. and out of the southwest by late in the day. that just starts to cool things off. the air is coming off the land. maybe a sprinkle as we get into late friday night early saturday morning. we have a system out here, you can see it's starting to droop downright out here. and that's all just going to slide through as we head into your friday night into saturday. tomorrow is nice. as we go into the weekend we get something like this. very weak weather system. i don't even think you get measurable rain. i think you get light drizzle at best. it won't shut your plans down. what it will do on saturday and sunday is drop temperatures. today we had mid-80s. tomorrow, or on saturday we're going to look into mid-60s.

it'll be much cooler, still doable but just cooler. sunday will be your best day of the weekend. computer model picks up those chances very well. and here we have the showers and everything moving south then you see the clouds thicken up. watch this next set of frames, everything starts going that way. that's the onset component and that's what changes things. that brings the onset of showers 4:00 a.m. friday night into saturday morning. doesn't look like a big deal at all to me. right now i think that's how it's going to verify too. just hit and miss showers, no biggy. you wake up saturday morning, it's cool. i think wind are going to kick up. daytime highs are going to have a tough time recovering. i think most of us are going to be in the mid-60s. saturday will be a little bit warmer upper 60s. and our weekend not as amazing as the last few days. these are the forecast highs tomorrow.

upper 70s, low 80s despite the cloud cover which will happen late in the day. there's your five day forecast. your week end always in view and you can see that we have, a nice weekend really. i think sunday is the best day. >> great, thanks bill. >> thank you, bill. oakland firefighters tonight are mourning the loss of a woman many called their surrogate mother. cora greene was simply known as mom greene. green had a special relationship with police and firefighters ever since they came to her aid when she suffered a seizure. mom green died last night at the age of 77. and our own ace sports director mark ibanez working on his own sports report, he'll be here in just a moment.

students in oakland used the birthday of cesar chavez to rally support for their schools as they say cuts are hurting students and they called for teacher's jobs to be safe from lay offs. president obama declared the state cesar chavez day. saying chavez improved work conditions for farm laborers.

opening day for the giants against the dodgers went right down to the wire. >> i don't think anybody is ready to panic. it's just game number one. maybe the best thing about it today's opener. giants have 161 more tries to play better. tim lincecum was good. just like fernando valenzuela many years ago. kershaw a are the of stuff coming out of left. lincecum gives james linum to ground out of left. runners at second and third after hits bachman juan uribe loaded the bases. in comes the go ahead run 1-0. after seven strong by lincecum,

santiago casilla has problems. he's got himself an rbi towel and the dodgers take a 2-0 lead into the -- rbi deep and the dodgers take a 2-0 lead into the ninth. lincecum is 0-1 but not at all ruffled. >> i mean, we have 161 one to go, so. i'm not going to get too worried about it. obviously trying to get off to the right start. trying to play baseball the right way. that's the most important thing. if you do that you win games. games like this are going to happen. you have to pull through them. >> three errors not going to work on most nights. the a's enjoying a night off. butters flies to mount a little bit. pulling the curtain tomorrow evening, trevor kayhill with the mariners in town. one of the team the a's will have to get by this season in

the west. the angels might call this on the sweet spot of the bat off the bat of tori hunter. about 150 feet, look at where that thing goes in kansas city. solo homer, the angels off to a quick start. nothing more for the sharks to move in the regular season, lean, mean and plenty predatory they are. about as flawless as they get. 3-0 with the third. oakland eyes for patty marlow. he later scored his 34th. maybe the goal here by ed eger. watch him as he back hands it in. i have to show you that one again. watch closely and that is a beauty. eager sharks clenching a play off spot. they pass detroit for the number two spot. so things get nothing but better for them. only a week left in the regular

season. they look plenty ready for the postseason. >> peaks at just the right time. >> we hope. >> ktvu morning news begins at 4:30 tomorrow. thanks for joining us tonight. good night. >> good night.