the search for a missing danville teen is growing. find out why police think she may be at risk. >> reporter: in menlo park what neighbors are doing in the wake of the violent beating of an 87- year-old man. give me one more scream. [ screaming ] protest the around the -- protests around the bay area this morning. with more to come this afternoon, and the reason can why -- ahead on the news at noon.

topping our news, a search is intensifying in san francisco for a missing teenaged girl from danville. her bike was found near the golden gate bridge this morning. that's where sal castanedo joins us live to explain where the search is focusing and who is taking part. sal? >> reporter: tori, i want to show you that the federal park police, the united states park police, have celt up a mobile -- set up a mobile command center. dozens of people from allison's hometown of danville have showed up looking for her. she was last seen yesterday at san ramon valley high school in danville. she didn't show after school and her parents became worried. ktvu was first on the seen after her father acting on information from allie came here and found her bike. >> we discovered her bike here approximately a year ago and asked local law enforcement to bring all available resources

to look for her. >> reporter: the search team have been searching door to door and in the water since about:00 this morning -- about 6:00 this morning. family members and friends of the bayliss family are helping police do what they call a very methodical search. >> we started with around the beaches, the obviously places and now we're kind of going into a close-order search and expanding the search. she's now had 24 hours of being miss nowing. >> -- missing now. >> when infirst saw it on facebook, i quickly asked my friends to come and help. >> reporter: he says now that the facebook site has received 8,000 hits of people who are somehow helping online look for the search. we showed you the picture of allison. she's 15 years old. she was last seen wearing red

sweats, 130 pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes. the fliers are all over the neighborhood and volunteers have recently spread out as far as ocean beach and lands end in search for her. live in san francisco, sal castanedo, ktvu channel 2 news. thank you, sal. >> in menlo park, police are looking for two men who attacked an elderly man in a violent home invasion robbery. it happened over the weekend along with two similar crimes. neighbors are still concerned today, kraig debro joins us with reaction from neighbors and an update on the man's condition. >> reporter: tori, we just talked with the man's caretaker. he just arrived here. he said the man is weak but recovering in the hospital. he's sleeping right now. according to police, the two men got in the house through that side door. they knocked down a garage door and got in the man's home. neighbors here are wondering who would beat a denseless 87-

ar-old man. >> a punk. a punk. >> we're in shock that something like this would happen, that two perpetrators would choose to beat up an 87- year-old man. >> reporter: police say the victim was beaten inside the kitchen of his hope. he con fronted aailants around 5:15 on sunday morning -- assailants around 5:15 on sunday morning. >> we didn't hear anything next door until after the fact. >> reporter: police say it doesn't look like the assailants took anything. the incident was so frightening, the neighbors started a neighborhood watch group that very night. >> so we could contact each other very quickly if we saw suspicious activity in the neighborhood. >> reporter: the method looks similar. meanwhile, there's another concern, their two small children. >> it's scary now that it's cloe social to home. i mean -- so close to home.

i mean, literally right next door. >> reporter: they are checking for similar-style break-ins. earlier this month, a 90-year- old woman was beaten inside her home. two men robbed and robbed her place. kraig debro, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, kraig. right now, in san francisco, homicide investigators are at a home where four people were found dead this morning. three bodies of a man, a woman and a girl were found in a back yard pool -- in a backyard pool. another woman was found inside the bathtub a home. police say all four appear to be drowning victims and were pronounced dead at the scene. is unclear what caused them to drown. b.a.r.t. are consider the need for more tasers for officers. this will make it possible for each officer to have their own instead checking them out from a common pool.

an outside consulting firm recommended the move saying officers would be more familiar and comfortable with them. its had could can be the same type of accident that johannes mehserle was involved in. this morning riders thought it would be a good idea with enough training. >> if you are -- if you are gonna handle anything like that, it's important to have more training. otherwise, what's the point? >> i agree with it. safer for the passengers. >> safer for them to use tasers? >> yes. i don't see the need for a gun at all. >> reporter: johannes mehserle said he thought he was firing his taser instead of his gun. the proposal is to spend $140,000 on 1340 additional -- 130 addish nal stun guns. voters in san francisco, contra costa and alameda counties will be asked to approve parcel taxes on the november 2012, ballot. b.a.r.t. says it needs the money to

replace 1,000 its oldest train cars. several rallies took place all around the bay area today with more to come this afternoon. it's part of a state-wide day of action in response to budget cuts to education. as jade hernandez reports, educators hope to increase awareness of the crisis facing california's public schools. [ cheers ] >> la fayette park had nearly 100 residents supporting this cause. 20 cities within state participated, including la fayette, san francisco, burlingame. as newschopper2 shows you, redwood city, there, nearly 1,000 rallygoers gathered. superintendent john nickerson explains. >> it's hard to imagine that this will ken for -- could continue for five years. we've been shutting -- cutting

our school short. and we are barely hanging on. >> reporter: one individual says they will fi for springhill. >> music is now gone. we're looking at school reductions. we're looking a really having to be a local fund-raise he for our schools. >> these days, donations are going just to get teachers in the classroom. it's really -- as the cuts go, everything drops. so we need sacramento not to just fix it this year. knee need it fixed going forward. organizers handed out this packet of letters pushing california governor, jerry brown, state senators and assembly members to resolve the $25 billion deficit rather than defarewelling it, telling rawmakers -- telling lawmakers once again, these cuts hurt californians. back to you. [ cheers ]

another rally took place in san francisco. a group of parents and ect educate -- and educators gathered. most of them held signs urging no more cuts to school programsp and -- and some denounced furlough days. more rallies is set for -- for this afternoon across the state? in past hour, bryan stow's family sued the los angeles dodger. the suit specified -- did not specify the amount of damages. the family told espn "the dodgers have shown a total disregard for public safety. we contacted the dodgers but so far they've not responded." our news crews are reaching out to the family and we'll have a live report on the news at 5:00. just ahead -- the u.s. first family is spending the day with royalty. the pictures are ahead.

>> we just got video in at the place where a need -- we just got video in of a place where the needy can get a good meal. it's a race against time for rescuers here as forecasters say more storms are on the horizon. i'm in joplin, missouri. the latest -- coming up.

san leandro firefighters responded to a fire in a trailer park this morning in an un-- this morning in an unincorporated community between san leandro and hayward. firefighters got a call at 5:45 about a smoking area near blossom ware -- way. they had the fire under control 14 minutes later. firefighters say there's no injuries and no word on what started the fire. missouri authorities are bringing search-and-rescue dogs to the city of joplin. they are hoping to find more tornado survivors and they are in a suri. here's more. >> reporter: it's a race against time and mother nay chute -- nature in joplin, forecasters say more severe storms are on the horizon. rescuers working feverishly to comb every part of the city. >> a lot of it depends on the

weather. we have the best weather we have seen in 48 hours. we have every available individual that we can get out doing the search work. >> reporter: poor weather has already hampered the search. >> we had first responders here last night, one police officer was struck by lightning. very seriously hurt. they had to pull back. >> reporter: this tornado ripped apart this walmart and a nearby home depot was ripped to pieces. this is wees classified a as an e-f4. folks going through the rubble trying to salvage pieces of their lives. some folks asking for help from above as the twister came barreling through. >> all i can say is god -- please not my home. >> reporter: in london, president obama calling images

coming out of joplin heartbreaking and vowing to make all federal resources available to the shell-shocked community. >> we're gonna do absolutely everything we can too make sure they recover. >> reporter: the president plans to travel here on sunday to meet with these people whose lives have been turned upside down by this terrible tornado. back to you. president obama and first lady michelle obama, will return to buckingham palace tonight for a state dinner, a rare event for a u.s. leader. ♪ >> they were greeted this morning by a 62-gun salute. that was the beginning of a welcome ceremony. it also included the playing of the star-spangle banner, a tour of the court garden with the queen and a private meeting with the duck and dutchet of cambridge, just look -- duchess of cambridge, just back from

their honeymoon. david cameron and president obama will hold immediatings on antiterrorism efforts, and the financial crisis. president obama is also scheduled to address the current financial crisis. congratulations, america. congratulations, mr. president. you got bin laden! [ cheers ] >> good riddance! >> benjamin net tan yu also issued a warning about the growing threat of a nuclear arms race beginning with iran. he called the threat posted by militant islam the greatest danger of all. he also reiterated his fee ruse -- his refusal about the

borders. >> as president obama said the border will be different than the one that existed on june 4th, 1967. israel will not return to the end -- to the boundaries of 1967. >> president obama proposed negotiations baited on those borders as a starting point but a deal would include land swaps to account for a settlement shift. hundreds of families are getting a helping hand today at oakland's allen temple baptist church. >> have a great day. >> you too. >> yep. >> today's handouts will help 400 families that -- that are preselected by church, last week. each family receives a 25-pound box of food along with a personal care package. the group is delivering food in oakland over three days to help a total of,000 families. once again, water bills are

going up in marin county. last night the ma lin municipal approved another rate hike. thage water bill will rise nearly $4 starting in august. the agency says this latest increase is tied to several factors including lower water use by its thousands of customers. good afternoon. a live look outside our doors where our weather, a pleasant one for today, enjoy it. because by tomorrow, a whole different kind of weather like day is what we are expecting. for today, our temperatures will be very similar to he yesterday, slightly warmer, our winds not as strong as we have seen. at the airport, blowing pretty good at 17 miles an hour. oakland, 7 miles an hour. calm around concord, livermore reporting a light breeze. santa rosa reporting anywhere from 5 to 10 miles an hour. could become a little breezier at time for the second half of the afternoon. our temperatures rebounding

already. 65 degrees in santa rosa, 62 in napa. upper 50s san francisco as well as oakland, mid- to upper 60s in concord at this time. areas around palo alto, and menlo park, 63. 64 in san jose. i'm gonna back this up. these high clouds will come first and we know what comes next, right? the rain expected by tomorrow morning. so for today, widespread 60s and 70s in the forecast. high clouds will begin to sprint in by the afternoon. our winds any -- anywhere from 10 to 20 miles an hour. our inland spots anywhere from 10 to 20 miles an hour for the second part of the day. enjoyable, once again. by wednesday, the clouds are in. by tomorrow morning we'll have a cooler day and the rain especially for the north day comes early on and it will hit the rest of the bay area in the afternoon. i want to show you what's happening. the clouds first and tomorrow morning, the north bay, it

would be -- it could be a soggy afternoon. if you are taking the i-80 and then along the bay area and then the coastline, all way down into monterey, areas right around san jose will see just a few light showers, but by the afternoon, it's already out of here. snow levels are expected to drop down around 5,000 feet and we will be drying out by wednesday afternoon. for todays, highs 2 for concord. 62 in oakland. 66 in san francisco. still running a little bit -- a little cool for this time of year. the extended forecast here -- nice and mild for today, we've got clouds and rain expected for tomorrow. we do dry out but thursday could be a little breezy, could an little cool. as we head into the three-day weekend, it's gonna remain unseasonably cool. we're gonna be breezy. 60s, low 70s for inland spots. >> last weekend of may not going to feel like it.

>> no. gotta keep the sweaters handy. new muni projects in san francisco could be at risk all because of contentious contract negotiations between muni operators and the transit agency the operators union wants the federal government to withhold billions in funding if muni uses the latest proposition g passed in negotiations. prop g says arbitrators must consider how proposed contract -- contracts would affect fares and service. the union says that's illegal. today, caltrans will mark the opening of the final section of the carpool lane on a major east bay day. there is a ribbon-cutting ceremony between highway 4 and the carquinez bridge. caps says this will make it much easier and faster to get from emmy -- emeryville.

mayor of knew ark has decided to -- new ark has decided to end -- newark has decided to end his long haul in politics. he has decided he will not second another mayoral term. he helped shift the city's focus away from the aging industrial base. smith plans to go fishing and play some golf after his terms in january. after putting the issue off last month, the san francisco board of supervisors today is taking up at&t's proposed installation of new street boxes to expand the new service. the debate is about to whether require anvillal impact on the boxes. the -- an -- require an environmental impact on the

boxes. at&t plans to install more than 700 of the boxes on streets around the city. ahead -- the latest efforts to bring a new area code to the south bay. and a jolt for coffee lovers. why prices are going up.

stocks are mixed right now. investors are still uncertain

about the worries over europe. those continue to linger. chrysler has paid most of its government loan back, 7.6 billion today. the dow sun 16. nasdaq is down 3. s&p is up .5. coffee drinkers will have to dig a little deeper to pay for their daily cup of coffee. the company is announcing the second double-digit price increase this year. jm smuckers will be charging retailers another 11%, prizing prices are -- rising prices are being blamed for the increase in demand in company. today the santa clara county board of supervisors is talking about how to add a new area code to the silicon valley. the 669 aread to is being introduced because there are no more 408 numbers. one option is the overlay method which won't require anyone to change the 408 numbers they already have. another choice is the geographic split where people could end up with different area codes for their home, cell

and business phones too. coming up at 5:00, new information in the wake of the japan earthquake. what scientists are calling the quake that triggered the tsunami and why this is one of the first times they've seen this. that and more coming up in our next newscast, the news at 5:00. thanks for watching. have a great day.