the streets dying, he was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead 15 minutes later. >> i heard 3-4 shots. somebody said they heard more. i don't know. >> police say there is still -- they are still notifying next of kin but the victim was a senior at the high school, good students and scheduled to graduate in just two weeks. police now are looking for his killer. >> this is the first time a homicide took place in this area in the day time. it's really upsetting. >> been living here a couple years, i am devastated. it's pretty sad. yeah. i am really scared. too bad for a life. young person, 17. it's horrible. >> reporter: police believe the

young man was riding that bicycle you see behind me, he was on his way home from school. he is well known in this area. you can see investigators are collecting evidence and bullet fragments. reporting live in oakland, rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >> a sad development to report in the search for the missing teen. authorities do not think she is alive even though her body hasn't been found. ktvu's mike mibach tells us what they think happened to her. >> reporter: sadness started to settle here. it's in the downtown area where we find multiple pictures of 15- year-old allison bayliss from this news stand to a number of other store fronts, including this bank. the search stretched from here to san francisco but volunteers are being told to go home after

new evidence surfaced. >> he walked on to the golden gate bridge on monday morning. it does not appear she walked off the golden gate bridge. >> reporter: allison bayliss, a sophomore. >> one of the sweetest people i knew. >> you knew she was in the class room, bright, friendly person, always kind. you couldn't say anything bad about her. so many people love her. >> reporter: allison bayliss was last seen on campus but tuesday the search sifted to san francisco after two clues surfaced. her bike was located near the good-bye -- near the golden gate bridge. today the announcement that allison bayliss appears to have

jumped from the golden gate bridge. >> gut wrenching. heart goes out to the family. it's -- it's -- it sound discouraging. >> reporter: signs of support continue to hang, the family has requested privacy. back at the high school, classmates describe her as smart and missed. >> it's strange not to see her there. she was so happy. >> reporter: a candlelight vigil for allison bayliss will take place tonight at the church, that is slated to begin at 7:00. live, mike mibach, ktvu channel 2 news. a late season storm through the bay area this morning. rainfall up to 4/10 of an inch. less into san jose. live storm tracking two right now. it's not raining right now.

this weather system moved to the east and deposited a lot of rain and snow. let's go to truckee. highway 80. i got off the phone with a friend, says it's a blizzard up there right now. you can see there is little traffic, but it is a late season storm. a winter weather advisory for the lake tahoe area. i will let you know what the weekend will be like in a bit. >> thank you. >> straight back to the sierra where chris is in the snow. looks like the middle of winter up there. >> feels like a winter storm than a may spring storm. crazy day. noon today sprinkles, rain, since that time it has pounded us with snow. fluffy stuff on top. here is the problem, highway 80 is shut down because there is

slush and there is a wet pavement, icy conditions. it has been shut down because of major accidents, it created a wild day in the sierra. >> reporter: mid-afternoon the sierra getting pound would a winter storm, not something typical of late may. the roads went from being wet to completely iced over. making driving conditions dangerous. both directions of 80 have been shut down because of a major accident. two big rigs slided. it caught up a couple cars behind it. >> when i came up these guys were like this and i couldn't get around them. >> reporter: the accident already occurred? >> yeah. just happened. the impact so intense it moved the median into lanes.

fuel is everywhere, causing a shut down and headache for everyone. >> reporter: the accident happened just as chain installers were moving out. >> middle of the day like this is unusual, you know? usually you have night time, not in the middle of the day, middle of may, you know? but bring it on. >> reporter: snowing several inches since 1:00 this afternoon. most of the residents are tired of the weather, they are ready for sunshine. highway 80 they are hoping to have that cleared by 8:00. they are holding cars at colfax, outside of sacramento. chris reporting live, back to you. hard to miss the rain. in the bay area, most of it fell in the north bay. this is what it looked like in

santa rosa. napa, not good news for grape growers, they say getting rain would be worse in a week or so when the vives flower. we have continuing coverage on the storm, you can find out what is going on on our website, go to www.ktvu.com and click on the weather tab. police are still looking tonight for the motive behind the killing of a bay area man. documents say a bloody bat found in a dumpster led investigators to him. he is accused of killing the church man. the victim was known in the community for his deadvisory. -- devotion. . families members of those who died at jonestown in 1978 are asking a judge to stop the

dedication of a memorial on sunday. it lists the names of the 900 victims, including people's leader jim jones. listing jones name is offensive. jones' son raised money for the memorial. >> 918 names are listed. >> if they want to put up a memorial wall with james name on there, we want our family's name. >> the judge will issue the ruling tomorrow. >> if there are more cuts to the state budget they have no idea how they will get by. they are the disabled. ktvu's ken pritchett is in sacramento with the step they want lawmakers to take. ken? >> reporter: right now it's blue skies and sunshine but

what a difference a few hours ago when advocates rallied in the pouring rain to have their voices heard. >> reporter: budget cuts. in the round of 1,000 we found susan and her daughter. >> i had to give up my career because of this situation. my daughter began having seizures at 3 years old and my son was born with autism. >> reporter: they receive state sponsored nursing care. >> help with medical equipment that the insurance won't pay for. >> reporter: the latest cuts to end home health care came in march after years of similar reductions. >> you have given more than

your share and that's why we will fight. >> reporter: additional cuts could decimate it. without extensions the outcome is inevitable. >> if we don't there has to be a plan b and that is further cuts. >> reporter: how much would come from programs to close a $10 billion gap remains unclear. >> we can't afford anymore cuts. >> time has run out to put the tax extensions on the ballots for voters to approve it. the lawmakers will have oo do it themselves. republicans say those taxes are not necessary, the missed deadline to pass a deadline is june 15. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >> social services are one of the mentiony programs facing budget cuts. the funding crisis made a big

dent in higher education. they slashed $1 billion from the states universities. if the tax hike extensions fail they estimate higher education could lose $1 billion. twitter a85ed a london based company called tweet deck. it helps people read, write and organize the short messages known as tweets. twitter did not disclose the financial terms. americans are forfitting vacation time. the average american worker gets 18 vacation day as year but only uses 14 of them. a reminder that under california law vacation days can't expire. they are owed to workers like wages and you must be paid for them. on wall street, an oil

rally pushed stocks higher this week. >> the price of oil rose $2. more than $101 a barrel. that gave energy stock as lift. shares in mining companies also rose thanks to higher prices for copper. here are the closing numbers. dow up more than 38 points. nasdaq up 15 points. president obamaed the u.s. and united kingdom must maintain their leadership roles in the world. president obama is the one u.s. president to speak to both houses. the u.s. and great britain must work together. he pushed for democratic reform in north africa. >> we have learned better than most the longing for freedom is

not english or american or western, it is universal. >> earlier the president held a news conference. the president is on a six day trip to europe. the man arrested for the beating of san francisco giants' fan brian stow will be placed in a police lineup. ktvu's ken wayne is outside of the los angeles jail now and says the suspect has an alibi. ken? >> reporter: we talked to couple of attorneys here. we are outside the men's county jail. the lineup will take place inside of that building in 45 minutes. giovanni ramirez is said to bear a striking resemblance to the sketch by los angeles police. we are told as many of 8 witnesses will be on hand to see if they can identify giovanni ramirez who will be

placed with others with similar characteristics. we heard from giovanni ramirez's attorney. >> we are going come in and there is going to see if they can identify the person who did this crime, if that person is in the lineup. >> reporter: we also talked to another attorney who is representing giovanni ramirez's 10-year-old daughter, he says she was with him the entire day on march 31 and didn't even attend the game. he says there are 8 other people who can vouch for his whereabouts. >> i spent hours talking with his daughter, there are eight different people that saw him on that day at a location in east hollywood. i went through every detail of that day with them and i am confident that he was not

there. >> reporter: that attorney tip says the girl will sit down with investigators tomorrow to try to convince them she was with her father and that they arrested the wrong man. the attorney also says giovanni ramirez suggested he undergo a lie detector test, he said he is willing to do that. ken wayne, ktvu channel 2 news. this is national missing children's day. to mark the day the u.s. park police held an event to finger print and photograph children. organizers say those two things can be crucial in finding a child if he or she is abducted. >> having a current photograph and having their finger prints are very, very important. there is very little an individual can do to change the facial appearance or finger prints. >> they hold this event every

year in may. to mark the day, child watch of north america released an iphone app designed to help people search for a missing child. the app is free and is also being developed for other phones. 137 people dead, yesterday tornadoes slammed, oklahoma, kansas, illinois. live in joplin with the latest on the search for survivors. >> reporter: somber news today, they did not recover anybody today. they announced a short time ago. the death toll stands at 125. more than 900 people were injured as the tornado hit joplin. it's just one in a series of

tornadoes. >> just as forecasters predicted, mother nature unleashed another round of killer tornadoes tuesday making this the deadliest tornado season since 1953. oklahoma, arkansas, kansas. the twister sends this truck flying. the driver somehow survived. wednesday, residents got a look that devastation. homes such as this one shredded to pieces. >> devastating. >> reporter: 68 counties in oklahoma are under states of emergency and search efforts are underway. the hunt for survivors continues in joplin, missouri where a tornado struck sunday. new images show how powerful that tornado was.

look at this photos taken. the building took a direct hit. surveillance video inside this shop shows glass and debris flying. ahead of this weekend's visit, president obama met in london where tornado victims were remembered. and now back here live, the people of joplin have so much work to do. they started a pile of debris, some of this will be burned. a break in the weather today. we didn't get the predicted heavy thunderstorms and that has been somewhat of a relief. >> thank you. menlow park search team is ready to join the tornado effort in missouri. pictures of the warehouse where

they keep their gear. they were among those that responded to the oklahoma city bombing. if they get the call they would begin by using search dogs to hunt for survivors. a severe weather here in northern california. let's go to chief meteorologist bill martin. >> winter weather advisory at lake tahoe area. 80 is closed. there is snow issues and butte county, the national weather service issued a severe thunderstorm warning or a tornado warning. don't see those a lot. picking up rotation from this cell as it moves towards chico. if you are familiar with the county, durham, not a lot of homes, farmland, chico, if it were a tornado it would certainly be -- not a large one, size of the tornado -- i

will get information. the size of the tornado, top is 17,000 feet, that's an indication of what you got in terms of power, wind speed. i know these -- if you live up here, 525, this system -- 5:25, this system moves through. giving us an idea. see where it says 17,000, tornadoes are interesting. if you get enough vertical height, 50,000 feet, then you get the ef-5s. on a storm like this, 17,000 feet, it's tough to get over a ef1. tornado warning in northern california. well be effect for the next 35 minutes. santa rosa got some train rain

today. san francisco. showers moved through rapidly. now we are starting to clear. for us, we are clear, there could be a stray sprinkle tonight. we will warm up into the weekend. i will have the specifics, see you back here with the forecast. >> a boy from texas is the winner of the national geographics spelling be. he beat out 9 other finests in washington today, winning a $25,000 scholarship. an 11-year-old from georgia came in second place, winning $15,000 and he already knows what he is going to do with his money. >> definitely put it in the bank. i don't know what percentage, i will have to research it. hopefully it grows. >> also competing, four grader

of san carlos. >> a turn in the oak tree called granny, how the fate of the tree may have turned. plus a big announcement, what it is doing to develop a crossover vehicle. a person hauling away something and would you care what it is? you may think why. ♪ let's go out to the dmv

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those are environmental activist protesting outside chevron today as the share holders meeting went on. they said they can take responsibility for pollution. they are epealing a fine from a judge related to pollution in the amazon rain forest. they say it is a smear campaign and it is proud of its record. in the south bay, the environmental protection agency released new stickers for fuel efficiency. >> one of the largest decisions consumers make. it's the thing we spend the most money on. >> the epa unveiled the stickers in palo alto. the first major revision in 30 years. they show smog ratings and the

cost of operating a car. there will be several stickers. >> when you consider total cost, it's a positive metric. >> they have been selling their vehicles for several years now. the company plans to begin delivering a second car next year. they announced it is going public. they plan to sell $214 million in common stock to develop a new vehicle. people won't have to change their numbers when the county adds a second area code. 669 area cold to new telephone customers because of a phone number shortages. businesses and residents who already have a 408 phone number won't have to change it. it is called overlay.

super visors reject adproposal to assign based on location. this camera catches someone leading up and driving off with one man's novel idea to spruce up his neighborhood. small fleet, one of american's aviations largest growth injuries. napa airport's overseas connection still ahead.

we begin at 5:30 with breaking news. what you are looking at is a corporate jet from san jose to arizona. what happens is that there was a hard landing and the plane went off the runway and down a

300-foot embankment. there were five people on board. one suffered a back injury but all of the others seem fine. we are working to get more information. again, a small plane from san jose to adona, a hard landing. goes off a runway, down a 300 feet embankment. as we get more information we will bring it to you. one business owner's attempt of improvic oakland is gone. took the owner months months to build a outdoor seating structure. ktvu's heather holmes live in oakland where he obtained surveillance video. >> reporter: the owner of this cafe wanted to offer this to more people so he built this to

extend the sidewalk and turns the bus stop into a common area. he watched as someone drove off with his idea. >> it was installed when we had our event long the curb in this bus stop. >> reporter: he proudly showed off the extension 10 days ago. a beautiful platform. >> working in the yard. >> reporter: made of wood that converts this into a usable space. >> we had neighbors come out and we have pictures a guest book with lots of comments. >> reporter: the structure was broken down into smaller pieces and set outside the cafe. he planned to pack it up and put it into storage. but the day before he was to move it it was gone. a camera caught someone loading

it up. >> i guess they thought it was -- people were throwing it away. >> reporter: he says, he saw a white truck loaded with a piece of the deck. desperate to get it back, flyers have been posted. and a facebook page created to spread the word. >> bring it back to us. i have money to reward somebody who brings it back. >> reporter: he admits it probably wasn't a good idea to leave it outside. but it might have been an innocent mistake. reporting live, heather holmes, ktvu channel 2 news. a man is on life support after a car hit him this morning. the man darted out into traffic around 130 a.m. the driver stopped and is not expected to face charges. san jose state university is setting up scholarships in

the names of two students shot and killed earlier this month. they were shot and killed may 10 in the parking lot garage by her husband. both were honor students and the university says the two had great futures ahead of them. you can make donations on the university website, you can find a link on our website on www.ktvu.com. san francisco plans to remove a oak tree, the plans are on hold. for weeks we covered this saga that sits in the county. where the commission planned to install a new pipe. now the san francisco puc is considering other options. at a time when most schools are getting out, an unusual school is just starting up. it trains pilots for the

world's most populated country. ktvu's tom vacar is live with details. >> reporter: you know, as japan did for 40 years right now, china is training its future airline pilots right here at the airport. had here is the run -- >> here is the runway. >> reporter: these 30 young chinese were hand picked by china airlines. mark runs the flight training center. >> the focus from day one is they will be -- you know, that controls of an air liner. you incorporate more into your training program than just how to control the machine. >> reporter: it's a god sent for napa airport which lost its

flight school after it fell on financial difficultly, leaving these aircraft and napa airport in considerable difficulty. >> 200 employees that were here. it was a significant hit for the airport. >> they are responsible for half of the aircraft operations. >> reporter: china is highshing foreign cruise since it will take years to train enough of their own people. >> there isn't enough capacity to meet the demand. >> reporter: maximum student potential here, 150 student pilots. >> 40, 50, 60 employees in just this one facility. you are talking in a small community like napa, 10-$20 million impact. >> reporter: they are not

permitted to do oncamera interviews. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. the government wants more immigrants to become u.s. citizens. officials say a campaign to encourage citizenship is slated to begin next week. it will reach to immigrants who are eligible to be citizens. this is the first time the government launched a paid advertising campaign. a huge wind project in southern california. they announced it will spend $55 million to fund the energy center. citibank is matching google's pledge. they are expected to generate enough power to power 450,000 homes. if he was on the clock, he would have been fined. why the man police caught going

135 miles in a 45-mile zone is no stranger to speed. and look at this, researchers in the south bay are showing this off, what it will do for people who are paralyzed from the waist down. ♪ let's go out to the dmv

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nascar driver kyle busch was caught going over 100 miles per hour off the raceway. they clocked him going 128 miles per hour in a 45 miles per hour zone. kyle busch apologized and said he got carried away. he was sited and released. he will be racing this weekend. the federal government plans to buy hybrid cars and flex vehicles as part of the overhaul of hits fleet. the white house confirmed federal agencies will be allowed to buy green cars only starting in 2016. >> to lead by example.

we are the department of transportation. >> there is concern this new rule could cost more tax money than it saves. in 2007 they required to lease and drive alternative fuel cars when the government was picking up the tabs. but they were more expensive. in michigan gm is adding hundreds of jobs. they will be beefing up by 2500 workers. they plan to invest in that facility. workers cheered this news. >> it's great. the younger membership that has been coming in, new hires, it's a secure future. >> it will begin by rehiring 1300 layed off workers before adding new employees. 3 large badges are launching a new way to transfer money from banking accounts. it was u use as mobile phone number or e-mail address. they say it will be easier for

customers to make payments. the service is simpler than traditional money transfers. researchers showing off robotic legs. e legs give hope to people who are paralyzed from the waist down. you can hear them working there. they have been testing the devices. artificial inintelligence helps them do the walking. >> incredible. fills the void that has been taken away from us. >> it is extremely light. their goal is to make it affordable. as affordable as a wheelchair. >> they hope to wrap up testing by january then trials begin outside the hospital in every

day situations. hundreds of dangerous inmates relysed from state prisons by mistake. what else is in a new state report? highway 80 closed because of snow and in the northern part of the state a severe thunderstorm warning and a tornado warning. we will look at all that when i come back. dad, i was wondering if you've --

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mentally incompetent to stand trial. they say jared lee loughner is not able to understand the charges. he is accused of killing six people and injuring 13 others, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. he was removed from the courtroom after an outburst. a thousand inmates were released last year from prisons bimistakes. ktvu's rob roth has the report and joins us live from san quentin with more. >> reporter: this 30 page report by the state confirms what we reported last year that hundreds of dangerous inmates have been released from prison without any super vision. >> reporter: the report states 1500 inmates were placed on unsupervised parole last year and 450 were high risk for

violence. nancy is president of a neighborhood watch program. >> for them to be let out as a mistake, this needs a full investigation. somebody's head needs to roll. >> reporter: the parole program was designed. they employed a computer program. the report found there were mistakes with the program. we spoke with the state senator that requested the study. >> i was surprised by the scale of the number of violent felons released without supervised parole. >> reporter: the department of corrections didn't return our call. they say they reject the notion that it is flawed. >> they are lying when they say they fixed their computer program. they have not. >> reporter: it's not clear how

many have committed crimes since being released. >> when you have a person released on some sort of parole you are always worried that person will commitment that type of crime again. >> reporter: state senator is calling for a halt of the program. at san quentin, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. breaking news in east oakland. we will bring you live pictures. you can see there is a lot of thick, black smoke from a fire on burr street. 9800 block. you can bet that people from all around east oakland are seeing the smoke. this fire is across interstate 580 from the oakland zoo. now you know the area we are talking about.

this is a densely populated residential area. lots of buildings. two stories at least. fire crews are on the scene. you saw an active fire burning, lot of thick, black smoke and a lot of buildings in that area. it did rain in oakland earlier today. if that is helping, we don't know. we will try to get you more information and get it to you as soon as we can. california isn't going to green fast enough. the demand fueling the need for patrolium. how did this fran neighborhood become the center of shouting matches? the promises that some call lies about plans to build thousands of new homes. only on 2, we are there at rescue crews take to the skies, the life saving lessons they

learned today and more on the breaking news, the fire in east oakland l coming up at 6:00. >> we will see you then. right now back to the weather. a tornado warning in northern california. >> yeah. tornado warning issued for the next few minutes, 6:15. i want to show you something. i am going back it up and you can see rotation. i will go back. see right here? that's the doppler radar out of davis picking up rotation. a tornado -- the tops of the clouds are 17,000 feet. these wouldn't be your ef-4s or 5s, this is like an ef-1. you can see the movement as it heads to chico. they are getting ready to get

hit with heavy rain and hail. not -- you know, still a severe storm, but no raitation anticipated or seen from the doppler. chico getting ready for heavy rain. old town, 6:02. this moved through today. snow in the mountains. 80 closed because of snow. an accident. winter weather advisory in the lake tahoe area. another one that comes close to us, it will dip temperatures down. but we will start to dry out. showers today are ending. temperatures cool tonight. tomorrow day time highs back into the 60s. still below average for this time of year. thursday 1:00, you see that tweak to the north. that's enough to cool us off

with some clouds. no sprinkles on thursday or friday. temperatures stay in the 60s and low 70s. forecast highs tomorrow upper 60s. below average, warmer than today. 5 day forecast, back here on the 6:00 forecast, we will watch that cell to see a severe thunderstorm up there and we will look at the severe weather in the plain states. right now they have tornado warnings. >> remarkable. thank you. >> well, we will be back in just a moment with more on the breaking news story, the fire burning in oakland. nasa is saying good-bye to one of its trusted space crafts, we are not talking about the shuttle.

nasa said good-bye to its mars over. they have been trying to contact the rover for 10 months with no success. they concluded the solar heaters didn't make it through the martian winter. it septback 100,000 images and gathered information about the martian service. its twin is still active and

this november nasa plans to launch a new one. two astronauts from space shuttle endeavor took their third space walk today. >> they spent 7 hours outside the space station. there was one scare. his eye began stinging and watering. the fogging soap in hisment got in his eye. but it cleared up quickly. >> they installed a huge power and data fixture. and they installed power cables and finished work on the

antenna system. they are final walk is expected on saturday. their 1,000th hour working and walking in space. >> reporter: back now to the breaking news. the fire in oakland. we have live pictures from news chopper 2. you can see that house. the address that the firefighters gave us is 9815 burr street. to give you a sense of where that is, that is not far from interstate 580. and it is across the free way from the oakland zoo. at this point we don't know what caused this fire or if there was any injuries. the house a total loss. more news coming up in 90 seconds.

so happy. i never would have seen it. >> the steps classmates are taking a remember amissing teen believed dead tonight. we are at the los angeles jail as the suspect in the beating of san francisco giants' fan brian stow is about to appear in a police lineup. complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is ktvu