first hand look at the plans for the battles ahead in which money or a lack of it could be our biggest problem and tom is live tonight at a fire station in clayton. tom? >> well, local agencies here are glad to know that cal fire says that all of it fire station soon will be open or are already open for the fire season. but can it battle big fires with fewer firefighters? spring, cold weather and rain makes this promising. >> nice, slow start to our fire season due to the amount of precipitation. wit becoming more like normal as we get to late july and owg. >> that, of course, assumes a normal summer. >> with the mediterranean climate that we have, every year has the potential to support large and damaging fires. >> already hit by big but the jet cuts and more on the way, cal fire says it can handle it. >> we are staffing all of our

fire station, resources that we normally deploy. >> one of the reasons that cal fire can field this many engines is because there are only four firefighters per engine, now there are only three. one question remains and it's critical. will they be as effective? >> he has the possibility, our incident commander, to order more if there is a threat. >> that's because mutual aid is available. >> so much is administered by all these agencies. >> without the cooperation of all the departments and agencies at the federal level, the state and local government, we would not be able to mid gait and manage the wild land fires. >> but crucial help from downsizing county and city fire districts may not be there. >> currently, california has 1300 federally identified communities at risk to wild land fire. >> fire knows no political or jurisdictional boundaries. >> reporter: but we do know

this. no matter how many firefighters are on any fire engine, they will go in there and they will fight these fires. the question is, of course, are we willing to pay for it. consumer editor, tom vacar. in sonoma county, a fire in a railroad tunnel sends a left smoke into the sky. drivers on 101 could see the smoke as well. the tunnel is lined with wood that's burning. there has been a partial collapse which is preventing fire cruise from getting inside. so fire crews will let this fire burn out though they're going to stay there to make sure it does not spread. firefighters are setting up to catch the person or persons responsible for setting five fires in five days. investigators went door to door today looking for clues. they say they believe that the arsonist is most likely a teenage boy from the area and that he is motivated by the thrill he gets from starting

fires. a san francisco city worker is recovering this evening after being shot on the job in arode road rage incident. the driver was shot in the shoulder blade and has now been released from the hospital. it called happened about 8:30 this among after the work are made a u-turn in the bay view neighborhood. >> my driver did the right thing by trying to drive away, trying to avoid altercation. >> reporter: another worker was in the truck but was not hit. police have not made any arrests but say that the shooter was driving a medium to dark colored car. san jose police department released a sketch of a man suspected of 20 armed robberies in 20 bay area cities. witnesses helped police with this sketch of the man who robbed the store on lincoln avenue near willow street. investigators consider him armed and dangerous and says that anyone who sees him should

immediately call police the man arrested at san francisco international airport after a dispute with his sagging pants said he felt harassed. he told media that he pulled up his pants after being asked. but the flight attendant demanded that he leave the plane. he released a statement saying that he is embarrassed by all the attention. police arrested marmon for trespassing and battery. police arrested two men after a fight. one man was hit in the face with a 55 g-gallon can. police arrested lazano for assault and the other one for public drunkenness. family and friends of michele le are wrapping up the first day of searching her. >> i want to see that we find

her alive. >> that's my mistake. that's michael le talking about what is going on. he is one of 30 people searching the hills around the last place police say her cell phone was in use before she disappeared 20 days ago. the klass foundation is leading the effort and telling volunteers what to look for. >> look for uniforms, shirt, white ten vision shoes. >> hayward police are treating le's disappearance as a homicide but have instructed searchers to look in areas they believe could provide clues in the investigation. homicides, robberies, assault, violent crime in antioch is down 19% this year. but the police chief is not taking all the credit. as ktvu's mike mibach reports you will see only on 2, police are getting help from brave residents. >> i like it. it's quiet for the most part. >> reporter: it can also be

loud. >> my older kids used to get texts from friends of his telling them not to go to certain places because there was going to be shooting initiations. >> reporter: and it's right here in the streets of antioch that the tide is starting to turn, at least when compared to violent crimes. here is the reason why. >> i believe a lot of this has to do with the citizens of antioch getting involved in neighborhood watch programs. >> interim police chief says he is down 29 officers due to budget cuts so he has been asking antioch residents to step up, open their eyes and call in suspicious activity before a crime occurs. >> this is not necessarily a police department problem but a community problem. by getting the community involved, they are making a difference and making the numbers drop. >> they are making arrested. >> luis kiero is talk being a marijuana grow operation. >> the police most of the time react and we are in a position that we can pre haven't the

crime >> reporter: he says his passion is to get other neighbors on board. on it day, naomi redding asked the chief how she can help. >> because this is my home. this is where i live and raise my kids. it's important for all of us to be working together and providing a safe environment for each other. >> reporter: antioch residents, this year, they are keeping an eye out together. mike mibach, ktvu channel 2 news an oakland neighborhood is looking beyond the police department to keep criminals out of their neighborhood. more than 100 burglaries have them willing to pay a private security company to patrol their neighborhood. residents estimate it would cost about $30 per household but they do want the city to chip in. >> with the economy the way it is, people are finding other ways it augment their income. and we can see crime moving up the hill. >> some residents already have

security alarms and surveillance cameras on their homes. what now? a california state budget was passed and vetoed and now nothing. ken pritchett went to the capitol to look for answers. ken, you ended up looking for lawmakers. >> those lawmakers were few and far in between. they had a deadline, pass the budget or forfeit their pay. they passed the budget but the golf nor governor vetoed it. so what now? if you wanted signs of urgency, there wasn't anything here. a typical friday where tourists dominate the hall. >> i think they should lock them in chambers until they finish the budget. >> lawmakers did pass the budget beating the deadline. had it failed, it would have meant no paycheck but the governor vetoed the budget

bill. should they be paid? >> my answer is. no if i don't do my job, i don't get paid. so why should they get paid? it's state controller who must decide if the budget was balanced. lost in the paycheck debate is the ten billion dollars budget gap yet closed. >> now it does seem to me we are back where we started. >> aassemblyman williams thought that they had abudget. veto was a shock. >> i had no expectations it would be street yoked, let alone so immediately. >> controller clung chunk -- chung is expected to make a decision next week. there are lawsuits expected

whichever way the contoller decides. homeowners have been lining up for help with their mortgage. >> that's a solution that i have beening a ming over the last probably five years. >> the neighborhood association of america says it can help about what of the people who come looking for help. counselors work with homeowners negotiating with big banks. but the group can't help if the mortgage comes through fanny mae or freddie mac. those two are the hardest to work with. unmany employment in the bay area fell in the counties shown here in yellow with rates ranging from 11.3% to 7.4%. unemployment fell 1.7% in monterey and .9% in napa

county. santa cruz county lost ground with unmany employment soaring by 1.3%. stocks closed mixed today on word that the greek debt crisis appeared to be stabilizing, only to be followed by the word that italy's bond rating could be downgraded. the dow closed up, the nasdaq fell. a rare and thrilling sighting in monterey. a pod of killer whales swims into the harbor. and code pink attack a republican candidate. the weapon, glitter. this time, it's in san francisco. and you know that means cooler daytime highs rolling in tomorrow. i'll tell you how much cooler.

[ chanting ] >> dozens of protesters marched and san francisco streets calling for an end to the nation's war on drugs. organizers chose today because it was on this day 40 years ago that president nixon called for tougher drug enforcement and penalty. the drug problem could be fixed by not sending so many drug offenders to prison, they say. first, it was newt gingrich and now another republican presidential candidate is the target of a glitter attack. >> those are activists from code pink showering tim pawlenti with pink glitter. the group provided us with video. police ended up escorting the two women out of area. coast pink tells us that the activists were not arrested.

>> the fbi says it does not appear a marine reservist arrested this morning was a threat to the pentagon as well. an fbi bomb squad searched the car belonging to 30-year-old yonathan melaku arrested for trespassing. nothing harmful was found in the car on on melaku. police say that he claimed to have explosives in the back pack that he was carrying. >> senator barbara boxer came to san francisco today to make a big announcement about the war in afghanistan. the democrat called on president obama to withdraw troops by the end of this year. although she worthed the war after 9/11, she says that changes need to be made. >> the u.s. cannot sustain an indefinite commitment and did for the afghan what they must do for themselves. >> senator boxer said that the u.s. must focus on targeted counter terrorism operations

protecting u.s. and coalition personnel and training afghan forces. calling them a critical bridge, the president is extending the national guard border deployment. the white house is keeping troops on the u.s.-mexico border for at least another three months. the soldiers are there to help the border patrol. it will cost another 35 million- dollar, says the pentagon. a rare sight bringing out a lot of curious folks. a pod of killer whales was found swimming in the area. >> janine de la vega is there. >> i want to give you just how close they came. you can see the restaurant apt boat. we are told that the killer whales came just up to that second buoy. they swam around and checked things out. this home video shows a pod of orcas, a male, two females and a juvenile swimming in the

harbor. >> it really was exciting. all the people on the boat were cheering because that may have been the first time that they saw the orcas. >> kevin just returned from a salmon fishing trip when he saw the video. he says a swarm of startled sea lions started swimming away rapidly and kayakers froze not knowing whether they were safe. >> the kayakers froze. another pontoon boat tried to get closer to take video. nobody knew what to do. >> they are found ten miles out in the middle of the bay, not near the harbor. >> as far as my records indicate, there had not been a sighting of killer whales this close since the 1950s. >> scientists believe that they could have been hunting for prey. >> they are pretty smart animals. they might just be coming out to see if they could catch the

sea lions by surprise again. >> tourists did spot some today near the landing. >> it's amazing. we are really lucky that we got to see one today. marine biologists say this they keep a log of the wildlife seen in the bay. they think it is doubtful that the pod will come back as close as they did. reporting live in monterey bay, janine dela vega, ktvu channel 2 news. rangers in yosemite says that flooding is more picturesque than problematic. this year's heavy snow melt is making for pretty spectacular water falls including the famous yoament fall. late season snow has caused some delays. and passes will only open to traffic some time this weekend. >> the picture is beautiful. >> we are only about 45 minutes away from the giants taking on the a's at the oakland

colyseum. cool nights out there is this. >> definitely jacket as you head out to the colyseum or a hoody. overnight lows or temperatures for first pitch is going to be in the upper 50s, low 50s. go out to where the fog is, it's working its way across the bay. you go over to the colyseum over on the east side of the bay. i suspect the fog will be across here in about probably next hour and a half, two hours. so you probably have fog by, you know -- by the time the game starts, anyway. the forecast tonight, is for that fog to keep pushing into inland bay valley. more fog tomorrow morning than we've seen really all week. we have not had that much fog. it was really hot. more fog spreading inland will trend temperatures down or will trend temperature down. these temperatures from today were cooler than temperatures we saw yesterday. temperatures tomorrow, i think, you know, 82 in concord, more like 79 and 80. a couple of degrees cooler. bay area weekend, a little bit cooler saturday, a little bit

warmer sunday and then next week, high pressure sets off and we get a bits of an offshore flow. the fog goes away. the fog goes away, temperatures come up. 73, 72. and then you get fog along coast. it won't be much from burn back at the coast. the coast will be foggy, pretty much all day. there will be spots. break off in pacifica. you will see some sun later in the afternoon but the fog is back and it's going to be the

key player in this cooldown that continues into tomorrow. and then as it warms up, the fog goes awai.d especially next week, fog is basically gone. we get an offshore flow. we see temperatures in the ocean beaches next week into the 70s, upper 60s. there is the bay area forecast. it does look a lot like summer. summer solstice is tuesday. summer begins. >> look at that, 95. >> right on time. >> thanks. history made at the u.s. open today. ant pros are not the only ones making news on the link.

it's not unusual for business folks to gets a little work done while playing golf. can you make deals, make connections, but run a country? yep. there is an incredibly high powered foursome set to play tomorrow. president obama and house speaker john boehner will be playing. boehner is known to be a much better golfer than the president. mark has the night off.

the bay bridge series is about to start. >> today is a pitching mismatch on paper. tim lincecum, two-time cy young award winning against a rookie. jamal weeks was the first round draft pick in 2008. gemiles played only three games. he has had three triples. he is flashy, smart and a fan favorite already. >> ain't nothing more you want in this game than playing well and the fans embrace you. that's the whole thing about being a hometown player and playing in this city as our home city. you want your fans to be able to support you and back you. for me, that's big. we had a little rut that we wept through but, right now, we are proving that we can be a winning team. this series is a series for to us prove that we can play with

that top notch team. and meanwhile, another 22- year-old is making history. roar yeah mcilroy has shot the lowest in 36 holes. he followed yesterday's 6 under 65 with a 66 today. check out this approach on the 8th hole. he has a little radar love on this ball. i mean, yeah, close is nice, but that's an eagle. you have to like that. rory birdies the 17th as well. right here and despite a double bogey on the final hole, mcilroy is 11 under par, six shots ahead of second place y. e. yang. that is sports as we see it. a's and giants highlights, of course, tonight. >> that was an incredible shot. >> he has been hot. >> thank you. coming up, filling up for less. welcome news for drivers but what's behind the dip and will

the downward trend continue? our live coverage continues in 30 minutes on bay area news at 7:00 on news 36. >> if you can't wait until 7, go to ktvu.com. we have new information about a brutal attack on a jogger this afternoon. we have the latest information on the search for michele le and what's happened so far in that baffling case. and we'll take a closer look at what the sticking point are on the nonexistent california budget all waiting for you at ktvu.com. go! go!

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