lingering clouds until in the bay area tonight after some unusual weather and record breaking rain. good evening, i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. we begin outside with ken wayne. >> reporter: a week before the fourth of july and here we are dressed out in rain gear. well it's finally stopped raining here in north beach and that's giving folks a chance to

dry out. >> a nice break from 95 and terrible humid back in chapel hill. >> we didn't really have anything planned necessarily but we didn't go out as much or walking as much as we had been the last couple of days. >> reporter: the strange weather played havoc on the roadways. this man found himself staring out his shattered windshield. firefighters cut out the glass and he simply walked out to the roadway. no one was injured. by 2:00 p.m. at the height of the rainfall, the highway patrol reported 25 collisions in sonoma county. this crash sent two elderly people to the hospital with minor injuries. a live power line fell on bennett road in santa rosa until pg & e responded. the only drivers at this

pleasanton course were carrying golf clubs as sprinklers wet already soaked fields. tourists were surprised by the weather. >> yesterday it was beautiful weather, and today it's terrible. it's about like iowa, unpredictable. >> since i moved out here there's the rainiest winter, then the bad el nino then the bad drought. >> reporter: a's fans sat through a delay in a rained out coliseum. it started an hour and 10 minutes later. the game finally under way. an officer just stopped by and said are you here because of a tree. apparently in telegraph hill a tree fell and struck two vehicles. ken wayne, ktvu news. a big time storm for this late in june. there it goes, it's moving off to the east but not before we

had some records set here. the big one is san francisco downtown. .78 of an inch. the old record was .22. those records go back to 1849. that's the oldest record in this city. these would be a big year in february for one storm. .9 of an inch in napa. over an inch in oakland. that was the biggest rain accumlator. down toward san jose about .5 an inch of rain. lots of rain coming down, and the roads are still wet. we'll see you back here in just a little bit. we'll have tomorrow's forecast for you. at 10:45 we will check on south bay reservoirs where they stand tonight heading into what's typically our dry

season. and of course you can check ktvu.com any time for up to the minute weather conditions and live storm tracker 2. ktvu looks at clean up at a reservoir. >> reporter: firefighters say calls started coming in after one clock this afternoon that a sheen was covering about 5 acres of the surface of lake merit. >> when the units first came on scene they could tell it was diesel fuel because the odor was so pungent. we're deploying equipment that we received in recent years for just this type of situation. firefighters in part with the department of fish and game to corral the diesel spill and

keep it on the surface to minimize the impact on wildlife. today's heavy rains likely flushed the fuel down a near by grade. now the search is on for the source. >> it's likely someone had a leak on their big rig. >> reporter: vent solvei lives in the area and says he runs a program to keep the water clean. >> i just wish people could throw away their litter. find property places to put it. >> reporter: and tomorrow crews will come out to replace dirty booms with clean booms. in oakland, christien kafton, challenge two news. bart settled a lawsuit today with the family of oscar grant who was shot and killed by a b.a.r.t.

police officer in 2009. grant's mother wanda jackson, his uncle and attorney announced the settlement today. wanda johnson will receive $1.3 million. >> no amount of money will replace oscar. if i got a dollar or $100 million, it would not bring oscar back. >> reporter: the family says it still harbors anger over oscar grant's death. and that mehserle was only convicted to manslaughter. mehserle was released from prison earlier this month. the council is debating a new budget and how to deal with a deficit estimated to be $15 million. amber lee is here now tells us how some last minute contract deals could end up saving the city of oakland a lot of money, amber. >> reporter: inside city hall behind me, city council members

are still meeting. there is an air of optimism since the city has received at the present timetive agreements with five labor unions. firefighters told us they're willing to do their share to keep the city running. their concessioning include a 5% pay cut for the last few years. the loss of two vacation days and new hires will not be able to retire until aim age 55. >> a lot of us live here, i live here. >> reporter: negotiators explained the last minute budget cutting deals that will affect them all. deputies, chiefs on down. >> sounds like you're leaning toward accepting. >> i would say probably 60% yeah accepting it. >> reporter: an agreement with the fire and police association along with three other play boar unions could save the city

$40 million a year. oakland residents applaud the move. >> we also want to commend the labor unions for their generosity for all the concessions they've made year after year after year. >> reporter: if approved these agreements may enable the city to keep its libraries open. prevent cuts to parks and the arts and possibly hire back 44 laid off police officers. >> i would love to put 44 more officers back in black and white police cars giving service to the city. >> reporter: members of the labor union still have to vote on the agreement. mayor reed says there will not be a vote tonight. amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. and today those negotiated 10% pay cuts for cuts or cost to firefighters became official. the board of supervisors unanimously accepted the contract with the cuts for its 300 firefighters, dispatchers and fire investigators.

the cuts are expected to save the county $6.2 million a year. firefighters say they accepted the cuts to keep four threatened fire stations opened. there is word tonight that a decorated bay area soldier has been killed by insurgents in afghanistan. specialist kevin hilaman is 24 years old. he had received a purple heart and bronze medal. two other americans were killed there the day before hilaman died. all three were based in hawaii. we also learned an army staff sergeant from oroville was killed this week in iraq. proctor was 45 years old and joined the army in 2003. he and a soldier from oklahoma were killed by an improvised device. proctor leaves behind a large family including his wife and their young son. his family says he loved the army. new contender tonight for san francisco sheriff and he

says he wants to lead a department that is free from politics. >> we work in a negative environment sometimes and we ask to bring positive people to that environment to make it a better place and that's one of the things that i bring to our department. >> reporter: captain paul miyamoto announced his candidacy this afternoon. miyamoto has been a sheriff deputy for 18 years. miyamoto is up against five other candidate. his biggest opponent is thought to be ross mirkarimi seen here on a ktvu interview. debra johnson served as a negotiator. johnson will likely be considered as the permanent executive director. she replaces nathaniel ford who resigned this month.

the agency's board is expected to start interviewing candidates this month. and the dow finished up with triple digits today. the dow finished up 145 points. and home prices are up, prices in april rose 7%. washington, d.c. led the way followed by san francisco, which includes san francisco, alameda, contra costa and marin. developing news at the state capital, the final vote needed for a state budget came just 45 minutes ago. late details right after the break. and the power of a

postcard. thousands of them causing a clog in a sewer rate hike in the north bay. one of the closest calls ever in space today, as we learn details about the shuttle mission.

just about 44 minutes ago lawmakers approved a budget. the plan will now go to

governor jerry brown. >> reporter: they passed a majority of the budge, they are still working on some of the fine print at this hour. still at the capital tonight. the goal was to reach $6 million in cuts and they did just that. every budget has its catch phrases, this budget is. >> the trigger tiers are as follows -- >> reporter: triggers, first on the budget cut more cuts to health and human services. if the projections are way off schools take a major hit. the school year would be cut by seven days. and community colleges get hit even harder. >> these are difficult times but i'm proud of what we're

doing under very difficult circumstances. >> reporter: republicans support the spending cuts cuts but say this budget has none of the support it needs to avoiddisaster. >> the budget before us is just more of the same, kicking the can down the road so that future generations have to deal with it. >> reporter: now there was -- didn't go over exactly smoothly tonight. there were a few hick ups in the senate side they didn't get all the democrat votes they needed. they remind us too the first time this came around tonight so they had to do some behind the scenes arm wrestling and do some work behind the scenes. now they're bringing it back to the capital. it seems state lawmakers are taking note that they are losing money because of the budget. five republican assembly members today asked the state attorney general to look into

whether state controller john chiang has the legal authority to withhold their pay. last november voters approved proposition 25, the measure docks lawmakers pay for every day the budget is overdue. passing a budget means a drop in california sales tax. at 10:30 how much you will save and the hope it will spur shopping for some big ticket items. at ktvu.com we up loaded the documents. -- today that company released its first statement

saying it wanted to express it's deepest sympathies of the families of those killed. investigators released the pictures of one of the men who they say forced a victim into a vehicle outside a wal-mart on story road. police say the kidnappers then drove the woman to a near by wells fargo bank and forced her to withdraw money from her account. the men are also accused to be involved in a similar incident in las vegas about a week later. police say they arrested two brothers accused of stabbing three men in walnut creek. police say they believe jorge rogelio and were among five people who got into a fight near main street last night. they also recovered a knife that was used in that fight. two men suffered serious stab wounds, a third had cuts on his arms. a huge sewer rate hike on

the table tonight. thousands of protest signatures rolled in trying to stop it. debra villalon is live where the pressure is on, debra. >> reporter: marin's oldest and largest sanitation business has this quarters, and it's hiring, which rubs many people the wrong way. thousands of valley toilets feed a sewer system the board says it's old and fragile and could fail. but a room full of rate payers argued tonight that rapid pipe replacement can't come at their expense. >> we had a really tight budget. on a personal level this really fouls up the budget. >> 44% is going to administration. 44%, for what? >> reporter: fees would rise by almost $200 to some $700 a

year. but the board was presented with a mountain of protest postcards. gathered by a local businessman by mail. if passed, the property owners in the district oppose the increase dies. >> i felt the protest would be successful. for all mechanisms possible to keep the signatures together. >> reporter: the public and the board went back and forth. some customers questioning why the district spends money on glossy mailers and hirered three security guards to keep order at tonight's meetings. many speakers noted past sewer spills and lawsuits, even grand jury criticism. calling this board elected as reformers a disaappointment. >> meet the new boss. same as the old boss. >> reporter: ultimately the protest postcards send a strong message that there was only

about 5,300 of them. that fell short of the number needed to kill the protest. live in marin county, debra villalon. myspace is apparently going to get a new owner this week possibly to specific media. an online network. the sale is expected to result in sweeping lay off, possibly half of the site's 500 employees. google is reentering the social networking arena. the search engine giant is testing a new google social network. and it appears zinga is

about to go public. the game company could begin to file for public -- the company could raise up to $2 million in an ipo. off the rain goes toward the east. the rain really mowed through here this afternoon from about 10:00 in the morning to about 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon and there it goes. it's up in the mountains as it moves off we're starting to dry up. still a chance for some showers. the computer model for tomorrow morning or late tonight. you see the showers up in the lake tahoe area. a few showers showing up around sebasta pool. for tomorrow morning, cloudy, some wet roads but no rain. there's not going to be a lot of evaporation. so wet roads. noontime we start to clear up. then we're about basically clearing up mostly sunny another afternoon. temperatures 10 degrees warmer

than they were today. a close call today for the crew on board the international space station. a piece of space junk came within an 1,100 feet of the international space station. two crews took cover. nasa says it doesn't know exactly how big the debris was or where it came from. atlantis is set to lift off on july 8 at 6:26 pacific time. its mission will end nasa's program. a bold attack in afghanistan. the stand off that followed and who's claiming responsibility tonight. plus food safety when you eat out. we're learning why a new state law isn't going to be enforced for months. i tell ya, i work a long day, every day. i hang my head out the window.

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in new mexico state officials say they are throwing all the resources they have on a fast moving fire that's burning dangerously close to the los alamos nuclear weapons laboratory. the fire started sunday outside los alamos. officials say the bulk of the lab stockpile of material is stored in buildings designed to withstand fires. but the fire is near where barrels of plutonium barrels are stored. neighbors neighbors in afghanistan staged an attack. a four hour stand off followed. the taliban quickly claimed responsibility. it began with at least four

suicide bombers setting off their explosives. nato helicopters ended it by firing on the gunman on top of a building. a new law requiring nearly 2 million food workers to be certified. enforcement may not happen for months. >> reporter: the pizza is hot even though the weather is not. workers will be required to get a food certification card by this friday. >> i actually don't know what it means or how to get it. >> reporter: he's not alone. it requires training but employers do not have to pay for it. they do have to send certification within 60 days of

hiring an employee who handles food. >> it could be the bust boy, the server, the cook, it count a manager who handles food if they don't remember hold a food managers certification. >> reporter: the man that wrote the law says friday will be the deadline. the goal is to increase awareness about food bourn illnesses such as salmonella and e-coli. >> it's important to maintain proper temperature, separation of raw foods from cooked foods. a second bill is working its way through the legislature to clarify how counties will enforce the law. although any crack down likely wouldn't happen until at least january. in san jose, maureen naylor, ktvu news. savings that can add up. the sales tax cut taking effect this week and why some are seeing green. san pablo homeowners say they have new evidence that proves this city should pay for

damages caused by this landslide. d having enough ince when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts working with me so that i can work one-on-one with you. it's your green line. but i'll be there every step of the way. call or come in and talk with us today.

some san pablo homeowners say they have evidence that the city knew that their properties were on a slide prone areas and now they say the city should pay for their repairs. residents say it's not the first time. ktvu's tara moiyarti spoke to those in the league battle today to find -- in the legal battle to find out who's responsible. >> reporter: barbara scott wonders how many inches her home will move today. >> it is the most nerve wracking way to live. >> reporter: she and the other

homeowners want the city to take responsibility. homeowners discovered records that report slides that's when san pablo sold two lots but the city says that doesn't mean they're liable. >> the homeowners are in a tough situation. >> reporter: the city has also turned down energy reserves to help. >> how do we explain that to the san pablo taxpayer. the other 30,000 folks that we're going to spend this amount of money, millions of the dollars to repair these folks backyard. >> reporter: barbara scott's deck has been red tagged, she says she feels like she's living in a house of sticks. if you look over her deck you can see why. we spoke to the homeowners attorney who says the city offered a temporary fix but then changed its mind. >> the city said to the homeowners, the only way we will do these repairs, we've been told need to be done will be if you agree never to sue us. >> reporter: federal aid has been denied and requests from the state are still pending.

scott and others will consider filing a lawsuit against the city depending on what their own soil engineers discover. in san pablo, tara moiyarti. and the council has yet put off a vote when it comes to voting on at&t boxes. supervisor scott weiner asked to postpone the vote until next month. and president obama -- at a stop at an aluminum plant he

said the biggest need are manufacturing jobs. iowa is key to the next presidential election being the first state to hold caucuses. mr.o obama made a point to those wins in caucus. the texas congressman says the u.s. should declare bankruptcy. there is a snag. sovereign nations cannot declare bankruptcy. a resolution bars the use of ground troops. the resolution now go to the full senate. both republicans and democrats said president obama overstepped his power when he failed to gain permission to

oversee in libya. the hope is that a new center will help the coast guard work for efficiently. the new $18 million bill is the new home for the coast guard, the u.s. customs an border patrol as well as state and emergency workers and transportation and security administration agents. >> to get information on common targets involving vessels, thymes we have interest in crew members that are coming in. also car -- sometimes we have interests in crew members that are coming in. new at 10:00 if you're planning to buy something expensive in the coming days you might want to hold off until friday. because that's when the state

sales tax will be going down. ktvu's lloyd lacuesta is here to explain how that could add up to real savings. >> reporter: for every dollar you spend on an item that is subject to a state sales tax you will get one penny back. it adds up. >> i like the penny back. any money we can save right now or have, i like it. >> reporter: i'll spend more. but at the same time i'm kind of torn. because the state is going to bank less. >> there are people more concerned about the overall sort of status of the state or is it more individual sort of need. >> reporter: right now the state sales tax is 8.25%. by lowering it one percentage

point that it will help consumers. >> you know that buys you a pretty good dinner. >> reporter: there's a really big difference when it comes to buying an $18,000 car with a state sales tax of $1,600. >> if we take and change that to 8.25% on the same car, you're going to drop to $1,492.92. >> reporter: at the grand opening of a kia dealership tonight the owner says a lower sales tax may be just the incentive car buyers need. >> i think there's been some people holding off, we've seen the sales in june a little tougher than normal. people are spending more as sale tax revenue for may was 5% higher than last year. however, democrats are talking about a ballot initiative next

year to raise taxes again. penny for your thoughts? lloyd lacuesta. online shopping could be costlier for california shoppers. amazon is strongly objected and is threatening to sever ties with 10,000 of its affiliates here in california. some dramatic video tonight of a teenager who's playing around on an escalator. watch this, the teen what he is now admitting about what happened and how he's now doing after this fall. i'm back here in about 10 minute, we'll look at the forecast and the big warm up that's in store for your neighborhood. plus another recall for johnson and johnson, why the company is pulling some tylenol from store shelves.

more tylenol is being pulled from store shelves tonight. johnson and johnson announced a recall of 16,000 bottles of tylenol extra strength caplets made in 2009 and distributed all over the united states. the recall is linked to a moldy smell. federal officials could soon withdraw support of the breast cancer drug avastin, the food and drug administration today held formal hearings about the drug which is popular among patients in the advanced stages of cancer. a team of experts say avastin doesn't work and could everyone raise the risk of heart problems. if the fda pulls back its support of avastin it will no longer be covered by insurance. thousands of patients taking the pill are fighting the move. >> a drug that's working after many many drugs haven't worked. but i'm scared out of my mind that i'm not going to have it

available to me down the road. >> avandia could cost patients thousands of dollars a year if it's recalled. the violence comes one day after a vote on painful austerity measures. at least 15 people were hurt. greece must enact major budget cuts in order to get billions of the dollars in bail out money. more protests are expected tomorrow. and officials saw more pictures of what proves are missile technology. that allows them to be fueled and launched well before satellites can pick them up. iran's revolutionary guard also noted that its missells are well within range of the united

states. and for the first time today, the pope twitted. he twitted dear friends i just launched news . va, praise be our lord jesus christ. with my prayers and blessings, pope benedict xvi. and the man on the video is sean ommaley. he and a friend were riding up an escalator sunday night when he jumped off the handrail and fell 20 feet. o' malley broke a bone in his elbow. he admits he was drunk at the time. the airline banning babies in first class. plus our storm watch coverage continues, we ask where today's rain leaves the bay area for the summer. and our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking the

rainfall and when we will dry out. coming up when to expect it.

today a summer soaker added to what's already been a very wet year. robert handa shows us what it means for the south bay's water supply and who actually could do without all this rain right now. >> reporter: gabriella zavala an family headed out to enjoy the summer weather. which for gabriella meant cloudy skies and rainfall. >> because i like the smells when it all gets wet and it looks very nice, very calming. >> even if next year we were a very dry area we would have reserves that would carry over to next year. so our reservoirs will probably have a good amount of water

left for the next summer. >> reporter: but for some people we talked to, drought or no drought, the rainy season should be done. >> it's supposed to be sunny but it's cloudy like this, it's really terrible. >> reporter: did you have to dig around for your umbrella. >> i hate the rain so i always know where my umbrellas are. >> reporter: kim sasell also says enough is enough. >> we don't really need any more rain. we've had enough rain during the critical times for growing of cherries. a lot of farmers lost a lot of cherries. >> reporter: even with all the rain, rainfall totals and reservoir totals are still hoverrering around the normal range. or at least what was once considered normal because officials say they haven't seen a year like this one since 2006. robert handa, ktvu news. an antioch woman and her mother were convicted today in the killing of a 98-year-old great grandmother. ktvu was at the scene the night

selma hill's body was found at her home. rosa hill and her mother now face life sentences for the murder. prosecutors say if killing stemmed from a custody dispute over the 2-year-old daughter of the victim's grandson. in boston, accused mob boss james whitey bulger arrived back in court today. prosecutors asked that a racketeering charge be dismissed. the judge did not rule immediately. bulger was arrested in santa monica last week after 16 years on the run. balasia airline is banning babies from flying first class. passengers younger than two years old are not allowed in the first class section and they will be banned from air

bus 8380 when those planes start to fly. new rules took effect today that make it illegal to sale, manufacturer or donate drop side cribs in the u.s. the consumer safety commission says most cribs are drop side cribs. consumer analysts say gaps can sometimes form between the crib and the mattress. the cribs have been linked to at least 32 infant deaths since 2000. more for information you can go to our website and look under web links. and the showers are moving off to the east. it was quite a day today for this date. the wettest june on record. san francisco i bring up because the records go back so far the oldest weather records

in the state. that's gold rush time, 1889. a straight sprinkle, definitely possible tonight. your morning commute, it'll be a little wet on the roadway. there might even be a little drizzle out there. you felt it go through. there was never a will the of wind with this. we did have some trees down today. i thought there's not a lot of wind, what's going on. but this time of year there's so many leaves and branches and the trees are full. so the rain, the heavy rain weighted down those branches. that's why we saw so many down limbs today. showers north, maybe a sprinkle near sebasta pool. foggy along the coast, drizzle a possibility. that's wednesday morning at 7:00 a.m. then it starts to clear out. showers in the northeast part of the state. we are sort of in this area between all of that. i want you to watch what happens, watch these clouds they go that way. see how it all went that way. all of those were coming this way. that's the high pressure  setting up for a very warm weather period. temperatures could easily get

into the 90s and then low 100s as we head into late in the week. the jet stream stays to the north. we see this pattern all the time. what's reminiscent about this pattern is this is more of a wet pattern. this time of year we don't usually see lows, we don't usually see rain. but it's happening. the winds go offshore. i don't think we'll see a severe warning. fire danger will go up accordingly. temperatures are going to go up. 74 in fairfield, 75 in antioch. temperatures were way off today, they were in the mid-60s at best. tomorrow temperatures go up five to 10 degrees easy then they really start to come up. we said it at 5:00 and 6:00, we were talking about the yoyo year we've had.

i've been doing this a long time and i've never seen a record like this. hence the record in san francisco, 1889. >> and they're still skiing in the sierra. >> july 4th they'll be skiing. that's martha, she arrived at the zoo last month from nebraska. a rebuilt home for martha should ensure that she does not escape. you recall back in 2007, a siberian tiger escaped from its exhibit at the zoo then fatally mauled a visitor. that tiger was shot to death. the unsettling reason their trip to alaska tomorrow will be slightly delayed. fee court is now in session.

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>> that would be something else if the giants can add him to an already great pitching talent. how good would the giants be if barry zito would pitch about as half as good as he used to with the a's. the answer they'd be really good. probably run away with the west. 7innings for zito. and he's picking up his first win of the year afterthe injury. he had help, crawford right there to rob ramirez. so the cubs provided plenty of support. andre store the third. johnson perfect curb to the plate. soto apparently had the ball and as you see the replay, the umpire called him out and he didn't hang on to it apparently long enough. he's given the safe play after all. 2-2. giants break out with straight hits. that's a 2-run double for him.

ross scores and by the way nate shorholts two more hits for him. one more provided by pat burrell. burrell had three hits. that helps the giants break it open in wrigley field. aaron rowan, 3-run double. everybody going to score on his shot. much a rarity for them and to put the cherry on top. miguel tejada with his second homer of the year. but the fan steals the spotlight. he will throw the ball back and it gets further than tejada does. all is well in the world of the giants. now if someone tells you they

went to the a's game tonight and saw them win it. you make them show you a ticket stub because it looked like there were 30 people out there. the game was delayed because of showers. dejesus helping out with a beautiful catch down to left field line right there. and the only run of the ball game courtesy of his battery mate curt suzuki. he will tag up and score the only run of the game and congratulations to the women's team usa as they win the winner in the world cup soccer. the opener for them any way. 2-0 over north korea. that's the sporting life for a tuesday night. >> all right. mark, thank you. and be sure to join ktvu morning news, begins at 4:30 in

the morning. they'll be following the passage of the state budget which is now headed to the governor's desk. >> you can find news and weather online at ktvu.com or with our app. 7

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