the special circumstance of multiple murders. >> reporter: with the verdicts now in here at the alameda courthouse. yusuf bey iv and antwon mackey received their sentences. makey was convicted for killing bailey. >> i was very tearful. but i was just, like i said i was just glad it's over. and now chauncey can rest. >> reporter: the verdicts represent a big victory for the defense. broussard agreed to testify

against bey and mackey. >> sometimes unfortunate that you have to play with the devil to get the dirt. >> reporter: the prosecution is the leader of yusuf bey iv. >> it's quite clear that yusuf bey iv and the people who followed him in his violent acts are a group of street gang thugs. >> more and people die and breathe in his innocence, i do. >> reporter: the attorneys it have bey and mackey plan to appeal. >> i thought per happen it is jury was not going to reach a verdict. because they had been out so long. and it's always disappointing when your position doesn't prevail. >> reporter: bey and mackey are due back in court for sentencing. they could spend the rest of their lives behind bars. rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. after the death of bailey,

bay area journalists joined forces to continue bailey's investigation. >> one of the keynotes was to show that a journalist was assassinated for his work and other journalists would step up to hold accountable the people who are responsible and that's happening today. >> reporter: bailey used to live in east oaklands and oakland and worked for the oakland tribune. bailey was killed on august two, 2007.

yusuf bey iv and mackey were indicted on june 9, 2011. and to get more information, go to ktvu.com and look under the chauncey bailey tab. two rallies are planned on sunday in oakland to mark mehserle's early release. he has served 11 months on a two year sentence for the shooting of oscar grant. >> he only had 11 months to do which is to us a slap in the face. so we knew this date would come. >> reporter: oakland business and the mayor told us they will be in high alert. but they also say they are not expecting the repeat of a violent riot following

mehserle's conviction. >> rallies are planned for tomorrow. some from are planning memorial, others are stepping in. >> reporter: it was an emotional day when the caskets arrived. right now those two caskets are inside the cathedral. the san francisco fire chief told us tonight, always difficult seeing one casket, always painful when you see two. tonight wearing their dressed blues, san francisco firefighters greeted two of their own. >> tony and vick loved the city. they loved working and serving the city. it's a huge loss. >> reporter: the flag draped casket holding the bodies of vincent perez and tony valerio are being carried into service. flowers are in place, some sent

from the city firefighters, some from strangers. >> i was working at safeway, a couple of people that -- i was shopping at safeway and a couple of people i know came up and talked to me. it's touched everybody. >> may they both rest in paradise with our love, honor and respect. the two men from station 26 battled fires today, and today they entered the cathedral today. >> it is true, we're like a family. it's like losing a member of your family. we don't clock in, clock out, when we work we're sharing meals together. it's very painful. >> reporter: after tonight's service, the two caskets will be brought outside and placed

into these two hursts and driven away. tomorrow the two will be taken to st. mary's cathedral on a fire truck. firefighters from other areas will come and staff the fire houses so that firefighters can attend the memorial. >> and tomorrow, the highway will be closed to traffic from 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. to allow for this procession. muni riders will also be impacted. here's a list of the routes that may be delayed. they include major bus lines which is the 22 fillmore. we here at channel 2 are going

to carry the funeral live tomorrow. our coverage continues right after ktvu channel 2 news at noon. we will also stream the service on our website ktvu.com. changes are being made to san jose state university emergency alert system following a recent murder suicide in a campus parking garage. only on 2, maureen naylor live at the university with the three things campus officials are doing right now to try and keep students in the loop, maureen. >> frank, following that murder suicide, the university says it's making changes to how soon it's going to alert via text, voice mail and e mail. >> there's been a shooting in the north garage. >> reporter: tonight marks two months since the university sent that alert. >> i actually got the news around 10:30. a friends of mine was 11:30. another person was 2:00 a.m. >> reporter: many students criticized the university for waiting 90 minutes before the

first emergency alert was issued. >> we heard very loud and clear after the last incident that people want instruction but they also want information. >> today the university spokeswoman outlines problems and solutions. one in every five people registered never received the message because they had a nonworking problem. another problem police were sending the alert from their phone. >> it's hard to use the alert system from a smart phone. >> reporter: so the university purchased a laptop from police. >> one of my friends who's a professor here she was teaching class and she was done at 8:45, she was in her office and she did not know until the next morning. to that's how bad it was on that day. >> it's good that they're listening to what students have to do and making campus safer. >> i think that would be a

bonus for everyone. because safety should be the school's number one concern. >> the university is encouraging people to sign up for an alert. saying text messages can take longer, they are also planning more training for the staff who puts out the alert. >> the university has used the alert system before. the first time was in november of 2009. the university says it received a number of complaints for sending out that alert in the middle of night which made officials he hesitant to send out other alerts. now the university says it plans to send out the messages despite any complaints. in about an hour and a half. friends and family members of michelle le plan to hold a vigil in hayward. the 26-year-old has been missing now for two weeks. family members say they believe le is alive despite the fact police are now treating the case as a homicide. tonight's vigil is set to begin at 7:30. tonight we know the

identity of a bicyclists killed yesterday near santa cruz. zachary park of santa cruz, this is a picture here of park's bike which was found on empire wade road. the highway patrol says park was found by a passing cyclist at about 8:00 a.m. the suspect's vehicle is described as a maroon -- police arrested the 58-year- old woman down in southern california where she was allegedly claiming the infant was her own. gallego is scheduled to return to court june 28. an independent panel appointed by the puc released its long awaited report today.

it says manage and weaknesses contributed to the blast. the utilities commission lacked the resources to monitor pg & e pipeline work. today the board reported they welcome the panel's report. the áf and say we will move quickly to review the report's detailed findings. california lawmakers expect to work through the weekend as they try to hammer out a budget deal. democrats and republicans remain divided over tax extensions. the taxes expire on june 20th. governor brown hopes to extend them until november. lawmakers must close a $9.6 billion budget gap. a new plan that could be part of the solution to california's budget problem, coming up at 6:15, what a new tax plan could do for the golden state. panetta faced lawmakers

today. >> i will do everything i can to keep america secure so that it can be free. i will do that if i am confirmed as secretary of defense. >> panetta has been nominated by president obama to become the next secretary of defense. he told u.s. senators that he would be a watchdog for pentagon spending. the president has proposed $400 billion in national security cuts. panetta is a former congressman from monterey and would replace robert gates. congresswoman eshoo is recovering today after surgery. she t he congresswoman is now back home and will be working from there for the rest of the week. this is a beautiful creek that runs through san jose. we'll tell you why the city wants to pay homeless people to work here. that story coming up in three

minutes. a nice warm up across most of the bay area for today. coming up we'll take a look at our updated forecast model. we'll track the fog for our overnight hours. we'll also show you the temperatures you can expect for this weekend.

an independent arbitrator med with muni and union leaders. the contract would have frozen wages for three years and brought on part time drivers to reduce costs. the arbitrator will now use a final decision and pick the terms of the contract. the decision by that arbitrator is expected by next tuesday. police have cleared out a

homeless encampment near a lowes. lowe's officials said that customers had been complaining about homeless people bothering them. the city of san jacinto has hired homeless people to clean up coyote creek. >> reporter: for years it has been plagued with tons of trash. the goal is to have it clean all the time. with a babbling creek and palm trees above, this looks like a beautiful refuge tucked away. >> i contain food over here. >> reporter: this is where kenney lives. kenney showed us his kitchen, and bedroom. the city says over the last three year, 180-tons of trash have been pulled from the water. kenney was approach bid ed by the city to be part of a pilot

program to get paid to clean the creek. >> i am willing and able to get to the point where it's just right, what's left. >> reporter: congressman ricardo saw how successful it was. today city leaders announced federal funding was approved to employ 50 homeless people for the clean up effort. >> in exchange for that we pay folks or reward them with vouchers to safeway, wal-mart or sometimes with housing. >> reporter: those who live near the creek are pleased. >> i would like to be able to take my boys on a bike ride and ride ourselves to happy hollow and enjoy the trail a little bit more. but from what i understand it's not safe for us to go. >> reporter: kenney says he is grateful for the opportunity. >> if i can get a steppingstone, that's all i need. >> reporter: the clean up effort will target a 3.5-mile stretch of the creek that runs from 16th street down to center road.

the project begins on july 1st. reports live from san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu news. 10 people were arrested in sacramento following a large march and rally. people with disabilities and their supporters. the group is calling out lawmakers to work for jerry brown's proposed tax extension. the extensions will prevent further cuts. the arrests came after demonstrators brought the protest. the institute of california released a new report today with recommendations on how california could stabilize its tax revenue structure. the group is calling for the state to reduce taxes on personal income and restructure taxes on goods and services. increasing taxing would be a more reliability, predictable

and stable way to take in tax revenue. just a few days ago we were tracking record rainfall. low clouds and fog. the biggest player at least over the next few days hanging out on your parts of the shoreline. microclimates starting to resurface. right around point benita closer to point rays. we still have a solid deck of overcast from pacifica to san francisco. at least for the western half of san francisco and the low clouds will be on the increase over the next few hours. surging back into the bay. for tonight, partly cloudy skies. a little bit cooler, weekend tore cast. we -- weekend forecast. temperatures will continue to cool off as we head into saturday. first thing tomorrow morning, the coolest locations in the lower 50s for santa rosa and napa, san francisco 64. fremont 51 and san jose the lower 50s right around 52 degrees.

this will not bring us any rainfall but just a cooler air mass. back down into the 50s and 70s with more low clouds and fog as we increase that on shore breeze. this for friday scene saturday. into sunday, i want to warm things up just a little bit. but these are all just minor changes. first thing tomorrow morning at 6:00. pushing back into the bay, a few patches inland. probably more cloud cover to show you up in the north bay for sonoma county. as we do take this into the afternoon hours. still patchy coastal fog. the inland neighbors, mostly sunny skies but temperatures coming down from today's warm readings. today we had a few 80s to report. back up into the upper 70s, maybe touching the 80 degrees mark. san jose forecast high of 71, morgan hill 77 and san mateo

65 degrees. no rain clouds to show you, with temperatures cooling down a little bit this saturday. for sunday we're going to warm things up, not drastically but by a few degrees. and temperatures back up another warmer trend. so smooth sailing as we head into the weekend. >> i wonder when we will get to the point where we say, and no rain cloud in the forecast. >> i am just so used to talk about it. and mark ibanez will tell us who aspired. plus the big leaders to help tackle a deadly problem.

some baseball greats teamed up with safeway and ucsf to raise awareness. >> if we're going to get this done, we're going to have to do it. we're going to keep battling it with the help of people like you. just standing out there, we're

going to make it happen. >> last year more than 32,000 men in the united states died from prostate cancer. sports director mark ibanez is here, i guess a's fans could have seen tonight's game coming. >> the a's have lost nine in a row. they're in chicago tonight and on the verge of losing their tenth on a row. they're down 10-1. the manager bob garen fired, replaced bid that man bob melvin who is a former cal product. a giant catcher and this is his third big legal managerial job. he talks of implementing his way of doing things with the as. >> you know get back to doing the things this team does very well. it has great pitching, good athletes and you know we're going to try to play the game we're suited to play. we're probably not going to sit around and play for three round homers. we're playing in a ballpark

that is more conducive to homers and that's what we're going to do. and the san francisco looking at alex smith who down played the so called feud between he and the receiver michael crabtree. >> you know thins have come out from both of us that have come out on the paper, you know i wish we could have taken back. i know i feel that way. i really felt like when i got asked about him a couple of weeks ago i didn't want to speak on his behalf if i wasn't answering it the right way. i spoke to him and apologized. >> there's a little basketball game going on too.

i think the heat and dallas. that's it, right. we'll have highlights at 10:00. >> thanks a lot mark. it's the sexting scandal that gets more and more attention by the day. pressure is mounting for anthony weiner to leave his position. now dianne feinstein is reacting to the scandal. will it impact congressman weiner's job? we'll have more coming up. and we will be covering the memorial for the two fallen firefighters. you will find a live stream on our web page.

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