>> we have new information involving -- >> ññ >> they were just weeks away from graduating, what we just learned about two santa fe state students killed. >> it was an emotional as the convicted killer walked free for the first time in 24 years. why a former governor wants to keep him behind bars. a fight over the jonestown me moral i can't believe was supposed to be -- memorial was supposed to be in court today. why it was postponed aahead at noon. bay area news coverage

starts now. this is channel 2 news at noon. good afternoon. topping the news we are learning crucial new information this noontime about the campus shooting at san jose state university. we will go live with detail that is many have been waiting to hear. >> reporter: we learned the details including name of the victims and of the is suspect and what the university is calling had this murder suicide. we can tell you that the gunman was the husband of a student here. the husband shot his wife and her fellow student, both who attended class here at the business school. the university held a press conference at about 10:15 this morning and crowds of students gathered around to hear the news. san jose state announced that the victims names are a 25-year- old and the other victim is 26- year-old thomas kyle williams, both are san jose ac counting students and graduating seniors. the suspect was identified as

54-year-old napoleon. we don't know a lot and we may never know a lot about the series of events that led up into the garage on tuesday night. but we do know that we are dealing with a little bit of domestic violence here. >> the two business students were found in a car in the north campus parking garage tuesday night and the woman's husband was found shot outside of the car. again what the university is calling a murder suicide. back here live we are been talking with students. one says he knew one of the victim, the woman. and he says that they were friends. coming up at 5:00, more on what he is telling us. we will also atalk with other students and telling what the university is planning for students here. reporting live at san jose state, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. santa clara police are asking for the public's health relate today a suspicious death. a man's body was found on the ground and bleeding in

lafayette street just before 6:00 this morning. the victim's identity has not been released. -- they have not said what type of weapon was used to kill him. they have no information on a suspect or motive. anyone with information is asked to call santa clara police. a son quinn ton inmate was released today after more than two decades behind bars and his release came despite a governor's efforts to fight it. we have the first reporter there when earnest morgan walked out a free man and joined us to describe the emotional family reunion. >> reporter: for the last 24 year, earnest morgan has woken up behind bars under the watchful eye of armed guards. today, however he became a free man. >> 42-year-old earnest morgan climbed outside of the fan, there were tears but few words.

>> for the first time in 24 years, morgan is a free man. >> september 24th, 1987 when i took the last steps to try to free my client. that was 24 years ago. i am not the same person that i was then. >> then 18-year-old morgan shot his 14-year-old stepsister during an attempted burgulary. >> i took someone's life. and there was time when i said if i had to do the rest of my life in prison i can understand. >> the crime ripped apart his family. >> it is -- i couldn't have imagined after 24 years that this was going to happen. >> but morgan says when he focused on himself he started to change. then came forgiverness. >> my husband feels good. so that's a very important thing. and he feels good about what earnest has done. >> in recent years, morgan educated himself, became a

model prisoner and worked with at-risk kids. >> he went in and raised himself. >> but his path to freedom has been rocky. former governor schwarzenegger blocked an earlier decision by the parole board to release him. but governor brown did not stand in the way this time. so for the first time in 24 years, morgan took off his prison blues and saw his little brother outside prison walls. >> e had went in angry teen and leaves a changed man who understands the years lost and who mourns the life he can never give back. >> she was a beautiful girl. think didn't have a chance to grow to be the person she could have been because of me. so i have to live the rest of my life being the best that i can in her name. >> so what is next for earnest morgan in the short term? he says prayers and anything

but prison food and in the long term, a degree from san francisco state and more work with at-risk kids. live, ktvu news. all right. thank you. police have arrested fourteen suspects that resulted in the death -- on wood street yesterday about 5:00 p.m. police say shortly before that they received reports of a group of men running through the neighborhood with sticks and bats and then a white second chancing a red curve suv. the man from the suv knocked on the first door he could find. that resident did not want to be identified. >> he said help me, help me i am dying. and he said they hit me, they hit me. i thought he got hit by a car. >> the victim later died of stab wounds at the hospital. he's identified as 21-year-old jeffrey . police say two of the three other people in the suv

also suffered serious wounds. the suspects include 18-year- old carlos -- of madrid high school and two other juveniles, two are 17 and one is 16. >> a former drug officer is denying new allegations that he ran a broth el in pleasant hill. he and his accuser are charged with drug crimes including the reselling of confiscated drugs on the street. now that former friends also claims they ran a broth el but his lawyers say it is all a law. the attorney says butler is making the story up as a way to convince prosecutors to reduce his jail time. a judge today postponed a hearing into a controversial jonestown memorial. the monument at oakland's ever green cemetery is almost completed. it will be dedicated to those who died in the jonestown mass

suicide three decades ago. but a woman who lost 27 members of her family in that tragedy is seeking an injunction to stop the construction. she's especially angry that the plaque will include the name of the reverend jim james who led his followers into suicide. this morning a judge granted her request to move the case to another judge. supporters of the memorial including jim jones son say it would honor the lost lives. >> i think the key thing is that it is a place of remembrance and it is a memorial to a tragedy that's overdue. >> there's no word yet on when the hearing will be rescheduled. this morning the labor department reported a sharp drop in first-time unemployment claims. 434,000 people filed initial claims last week, that's a drop of 44,000, the steepest decline since february of last year. but the number of continuing claims was up by 5,000 to just

over 3.75 million people. americans are becoming more optimistic about the economy. more than 2 out of five people asked believe the economy will continue to improve. just one-third think it will stay about the same andless than a quarter think it will get worse. for the first time in two years more than half of all americans approve of how president obama is dealing with the economy. >> the ceos of the five largest oil companies are defending the tax breaks on capitol here today, to subsidize other forms of industry. don't punish our industry for doing their job well. >> to repeal worth about $2 billion a year. they say with consumers paying $4 a gallon and with oil companies earning $1.5 trillion last year. the tax breaks are not needed.

republicans are expected to kill the bill. we are now hearing from members of congress who have seen the osama bin laden death photos. >> 15 pictures. the first 12 were taken in the compound right of the incident took place. so they're pretty grueling. the other three were taken on the ship and they included the burial at sea. >> members of senate and house committees that deal with entail yens and military matters have been invited to see the photos at the cia head quarters in virginia but they're not allowed to take any copies of the photo. >> >> are learning more about his activities by reading his private journal. the journal was among the documents seized at bin laden's compound. he writes about advising al- qaida groups to hit other cities besides new york such as los angeles, and he encourages attacking trains as well as planes. the goal, he writes is to kill as many americans as possible

in each attack. still ahead, the check is in the mail. pg&e is writing checks relate today the disassistantaster. mark is with us to tell us if the gray skies will clear up this afternoon also. if you're biking and your first experience was great you are more likely to bike. >> why you may be seeing a lot more commuters on two wheels today.

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reimbursing cities and compound county that is responded to the disaster. -- in last september is's disaster. emergency responders rushed in from all over the bay area to help out. according to the examiner, 60 applications have been filed by various citys and counties seeking more than $4 million in reimbursement. a san jose state student has settled against the police department after he accused of an officer of using excessive force from an incident caught on video that shows an officer hitting him while trying to arrest him. the 22-year-old sued for $6 million. the mercury news quoted one source as saying the amount of the settlement is $225,000. this is what some people in chico are seeing today on the way to work and it is one of several billboards going up around town pushing for more officers on the street. the police officers association is paying for them.

the message includes gangs are hiring, why aren't we. and too many criminals, too few cops. like many other northern california cities, chico is under a tight budget, limiting the number of police officers it can have on the streets. ac transit are going up, scheduled to start august 1 with the $0.10 increase for adults and $0.05 if for youth, seniors and the disabled. ac transit says the increase will bring in about $2 million, but that will not be enough to close the agencies $15 million budget gap. as a result, another round of service cuts could come some time next year. >> the bay area is still getting high marks in a new report. but look at which cities provide commuters with the best access to public transportation. the new workings institution says the san jose, santa clara area ranks number two in the nation. the report says that 96% of working age residents in the

south bay live near a transit. the san francisco oakland free monte metro was ranked 16th nationwide, number one on the list honolulu. hundreds of bay area commuters left their cars at home and rode bikes to work today. it's the 17th annual bike to work day to encourage them to use -- and -- refreshments and bicycling information. some will reopen later today for the evening commute. organizers hope that people trying it for the first time today will continue to do it all year round. bike riding -- so once you try it once, bicycling community will embrace them and it will continue for a lifetime. >> organizers say more than 1 million bay area r live within five miles of the work place. that's an ideal distance to commute by bike. you can learn more by watching the bicycle activities by going to ktvu.com and click

ton news tab and scroll half way down the page. a nice day to be outside riding a bike with temperatures recovering nicely in the fog we had beginning to lift across a good portion of the bay area. here is the camera looking out toward san francisco. this is actually from the camera, but there's san francisco in the distance. you can see the the clear skies and currently at 60 degrees. the fog is basically moving out of the bay area, but we could have patches near the shoreline but the main organized fog bank is to the west of monterey. tomorrow some morning fog, skies becoming partly sunny and the weekend a big weather change, temperatures dropping off significantly. and we will be tracking some rain clouds moving into the bay area. current numbers just updated santa rosa at 70. concord 71, and san jose in the

upper 60s around 67. here is the set up for today. we have the fog this morning still an on shore breeze and as a result we will are cap off the temperatures not a big change for tomorrow. but here is the big change setting up for this weekend, this cold area of low pressure moves in from the north but this storm initiated or originated in russia last week and it is on track to move into the bay area. temperatures really cooling off. so for saturday we bring in rain especially by saturday evening. it is mainly late in the day on saturday, some off and on shower, the possibility of thunderstorms and the possibility of some snow with that cold air in place. we can have snow down around 3500 feet. in the bay area. so it is a big change in the overall weather pattern. for today we have mostly sunny skies. we will take this into friday, a few high clouds, and same deal into saturday. but look what happens, saturday at 6:00. we are still dry and look at the frontal band. this moves through and the cold

air really settles in for the second half of the weekend. for this afternoon, 4:00, we will call it breezy, around 58 to 74. by 7:00, mostly clear, right around 62 and partly cloudy by 10:00, back into the low to mid- 50s. here is a look at the numbers and these numbers are up a good 3 to 6-degrees from yesterday's highs, that means the wormest locations approaching the mid- 70s. free monte around 66 and -- 65 degrees. here is a look ahead for your friday. saturday just partly cloudy skies and increasing cloudiness. we do bring in the -- saturday evening off and on cold showers for sunday. there's a slight chance of a shower into monday or even next week we could track more rain chances. so make the most of today and tomorrow. >> all right. we will. thank you, mark. more money from washington dc is heading to santa cruz

county. the labor department awarded santa cruz county millions of dollars to hire temporary workers for clean up and repairs. it will provide badly needed jobs in a down the i with a 4% -- county with a 14% r unemployment rate. it came yesterday two months today after a destructive tsunami surge ripped through santa cruz harbor. north bay firefighters collected more than $30,000 for burn survivors during a long parade through two counties. >> with lights and sirens blaring they made stops in sal at that -- they picked up money from fund raisers along with individuals as they saw firefighters rolling into town. by the end of the day, they collected 94, $500 for burn survivors. new census data shows the bay area population is graying faster than the rest of the

state. the trend was the long expected outcome of baby boomers. according to the sen fuss -- in the past decade. the number in the 60s increased by 60%. the median age is 51 and sana mateo grew by 42% in santa clara county. golfer tiger woods was suppose today be back in action today. we will tell you what happened. >> also, the san jose sharks were on top of the playoff -- 90,000 do or die.

stocks have turned around to e release earlier losses as commodity costs, now the dow up 55. s&p is up 5. >> >> in about four hours, angry teachers will hold a rally outside of the wells-fargo bank. they want banks to pay more taxes. >> the teachers began the tax protests yesterday. they say many banks and other big corporations don't pay their fair share and higher taxes on buy banks would help ease the growing ebbing noelic crisis in california -- ebbing ekimov no, economic crisis in california -- >> this is the 85-year-old

queen rif arriving about her grand son's -- she has ruled more 59 years and 95 days, only queen victoria who ruled for 63 years spend more time on the throne. >> wood was through in florida after playing only the first nine holes. he was in last place. he reinjured his knee. this is the second year in a row that woods has pulled out of the players tournament. he with drew from the final round last year. you can call it torture on the ice. the san jose sharks playoff tonight at the shark tank. they won the first three games in the series. the detroit red wings forced by winning the last three straight games. the winner of the game heads to

vancouver to play sunday. at 6:00 at the hp paville pavilion. coming up tonight they will have a whole legion of fans but it may be sports torture. the fans willing to wear the teal and black through thick and thin. fur watching. have a great -- thank you for watching. have a great day. a charming farmhouse.

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