would wouldish would issue a ruling later. >> the defense has good arguments. i think that's one of the reasons why the judge wants to think about it and write it up. >> reporter: bonds answered questions about the winning bonds game he attended last night but not about what happened or didn't happen in court. >> going back to day one. he's always had confidence in the system. felt that the system would do justice. and nothing has changed. now if the judge opposes conviction, barry bonds will be back here in about three months and then no doubt, he will begin to appeal. reporting live in san francisco, rita williams, ktvu news. san francisco police hoped that someone could help them catch a man accused of severely

beating another man at a 49ers- raiders game last saturday. police released a picture that looks like this. in his late 20s with a goatee and a pony tail. coming up on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 we'll tell you about an effort by a california lawmakers to crack down on violence at sporting events. tonight we've pictures of the two brothers one of whom died during the attempted robbery. and we're learning about a separate arrest. we have a clearer picture of what happened, jade hernandez has the story. >> reporter: the attempted robbery happened right at that bank. and tonight we get a good look at the brother's police say were involved. pierre and freddy daniel who is still in critical condition. a pinol school police resource officer was also shot. hours ago i spoke to a

commander who laid out what his officer faced when he was pulled from his post at pinol valley high. on wednesday an emergency call put him back in his squad car driving toward an attempted armed robbery. >> we had a suspect down. we had a guard down. and he was one of the first guys there getting information out and doing his job. every day officer taft protects kids but on this day the commander says his officer used skills he learned elsewhere. >> tack is a great guy, he was a combat patroller on the army combat. >> reporter: the officers say they are still investigating how tack was shot. >> i'm glad i sat in my car and called my daughter. i felt that saved my life. >> reporter: we learned police

arrested another man william fuller. he's accused of driving the get away car. officers haukis is recovering at the hospital. another security guard was also shot. the guard is recovering. as for suspect freddy daniel he is still in critical condition tonight. reporting live from pinol, jade hernandez. police raided a nuwark this morning. police from nuwark, hayward and fremont took part in the raid. they arrested three people. someone who lives in that neighborhood told us police moved in quickly and in force. >> they started kicking doors down. cops come down the street, they had the whole street lined with police. i didn't know what was going on. i heard bangs, i heard helicopters, i seen a bunch of stuff. it was crazy, i didn't know what was going on. >> neighbors say that people would come and go from the home

at all times of the day and night. police say more arrests may be made as a part of investigation. rebels have gained ground in their fight against forces forces loyal to gadhafi. the fighting has taken a fuel human toll. hundreds of civilians fill hospitals including children caught in the cross fire. and throughout the city, bodies line the streets. gadhafi is in hiding but he has recorded this message to his loyalists. >> reporter: do not leave tripoli, do not leave them. fight them, destroy them. you are the overwhelming majority. >> a spokesman for gadhafi says he is still in libya and that he is safe and healthy. >> the libyan rebels also released a number of inmates from a notorious prison in tripoli. this video shot by the rebels

shows men smashing the clocks on prison cells. they also knocked down concrete walls. the prison held many of gadhafi's political opponents. the up and down stock market was down again today ending a three day rally. first time claims for unemployment helped rally stocks. apple closed down only about $2.50. a sign that people are not too worried about steve job's resignation. tom vacar has more on the tight rope that company is progressing. >> reporter: for many steve

jobs is apple. that may or not matter to jennifer crosby who sits on several boards. >> he's been larger than life. it's a real question on what's going to happen next. >> reporter: mac world magazine thinks this about the new ceo tim cook. >> he'll hand it over to the senior people who are in charge of those producting an showing how deep the bench is at apple. >> reporter: but it could go either way. she says the disney company wallowed for years when it lost its founder. >> it took four ceos for the company to regain a strong identity and to develop the kind of track record that it had while walt disney was in place. it took until michael isner.

>> her power did a lot to invest in constitutionalizing that culture beyond his reign. >> i think what steve jobs has done is he's helped build that vision into the dna of the company and into those executives. >> reporter: guarantee you this, apple's next new product announcement is coming up in just a few weeks, we'll surely have a worldwide audience because of all of this. reporting live, consumer editor, tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. that steve jobs mystique pulls panned from around the world and his childhood home is in fact, a tourist stop. tonight one of our ktvu crews found tourist where jobs once lived with his parents. they were taking photos of that garage. that's where the 21-year-old jobs and his friend steve walkios put computer components

into a plastic case, that became apple's first computer. they founded it back in 1976. they incorporated in 1977 and went public in 1980. apple introduced the mcintosh computer. jobs left in 1985 but then returned in 1997. a series of successes would follow the i pod in 2001. i tunes in 2003, the iphone in 2007, and the i pad in 2010. in 2009 jobs would announce that he had a liver transplanet explaining a medical leave and just yesterday he resigned as ceo. you can go to our website it's ktvu.com for the latest any time on if transition at the very top of the apple corporation. warren buffet is coming to the rescue of bank of america and may have already learned more than a billion dollars as a result. the hathaway ceo invested $5 million in the bank today. buffet says bank of america is

a strong company and i wanted to invest in it. today b of a stocks surged closing up. buffet may have earned $1.4 billion on the deal in just one day. it appears buffet will be spending some of his billions trying to get president obama reelected. democratic officials say buffet will hold a fundraiser for obama. the president has been talking to buffet to discuss his upcoming speech on the economy. even with the looming budget cut -- even with looming budget cuts, uc berkeley says it is adding classes. school started today and despite a weak economy, they've added hundreds of classes. >> i wanted to take a real

estate class here. i think it's usually open to only business students. i was on the wait list for probably a few months then they just said i got in. i don't know why? >> uc berkeley says the money comes from a variety of sources including efficiency measures. and increased fees for instate students. a space ending to an explosive problem you watched play out here live on ktvu all day yesterday. 40,000 residents of the town of lincoln northeast of sacramento were allowed to return to their homes early this morning when the loss of the propane blew away from the tanker there. ever since the fire broke out tuesday afternoon, residents were removed. investigators are using process of elimination to find out what

sparked the fire. now that the fire is out, investigators are take an up close look. >> we don't know if a valve was left open or what happened on that. basically that's not supposed to happen. as soon as you have that thing under pressure. you have a leak. the california public utilities commission is leading the investigation. the federal railroad administration told ktvu news it's lending a hazmat expert to lend advise to investigators. a gas leak shut down a major thoroughfare this morning. it happened about 10:30. authorities closed the block and evacuated a near by taco bell. pg & e crews shut off the valve. and the street reopened about 10:30. a popular rout in yosemite is shutdown this afternoon due

to a fire. the fire is outside the park in sierra and stanislaus national park. the park is open. evacuations are under way in coastal north carolina as hurricane irene gets ever closer. the latest on this story coming up. i'm back here in 10 minutes. it's warming up around the bay area. i'll give you the details on how warm it'll be for your friday.

you are looking live here at rightsville north carolina where people are already preparing for hurricane irene. the navy has moved warships out to sea to get them out of the hurricane's path. today irene has been pounding the bahamas. winds reaching 115-miles-an- hour. it caused an 11-foot tidal surge. right now irene is a category 3 but is expected to reach a category 4. people from north carolina up to maine are getting ready for irene's arrival. >> reporter: hi there gasia. it's a rather beautiful and quiet night here. but some models actually have this storm coming on land right

where we are standing. perhaps that's why it's rather quiet. a number of tourists have already left town. hundreds of thousands have been ordered to evacuate as irene barrels toward the u.s. irene made her mark on the bahamas. next in line, north carolina. in moorehead city people are taking this storm very seriously and packing up. something they haven't done in a while. >> we live in a stucco home so it's stable. short of a roof blow, i should be in just fine shape. >> reporter: the local lowe's hardware store has been extremely busy all day long. >> we will stay open as late as we possibly can. we just have to play that by ear and obviously we have to

keep our residents safe. >> reporter: residents will start evacuating friday morning. still some are trying to fit in one last minute a beach time. >> they ask if we wanted to leave today and we said no. it's just too beautiful today. you would never know a storm is coming. >> reporter: it's not just north carolina that's preparing. irene is expected to make her way all the way up the east coast so everybody is on alert. >> there's an element of unpredictability when it comes to the weather so we hope for the best but prepare for the worse. >> reporter: we're expecting the worse of the storm about saturday some time. but they are planning ahead. but the governors have already issued a case of emergency.

and the east coast preparing for the irene. new york city is also preparing for the worse. >> knowing that no matter what happens there's likely to be some significant impacts from this storm in terms of rain and wind. we're taking the step to make sure that the city is prepared. the federal communications commission is sending teams to boston and atlanta to be ready to deploy. emergency cell phone towers to maintain communications throughout that region. a category three hurricane is a very serious hurricane. our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking it. >> the most fascinating thing here is day two and three when you get up to the new york area. in the carolinas saturday. this is pacific standard time. so our time 11:00 a.m. it's going to hit that area and

move right across through kitty hawk. this next move here as you go north. new york doesn't get hurricanes, but if this thing staying intake intact, that is an extremely -- that would be a big deal. it remains to be seen. it's still a ways out. the forecast for the fog is going to be pretty similar to what we saw this morning. right now we have fog in the avenues of san francisco all the way out to south on market out toward the ballpark. fog out toward krissy park as well. today's highs were nice. they were a lot like yesterday. tomorrow's highs will be warmer.

as we go into this bay area weekend which is just around the corner it's going to be warmer than it has been. we're going to see temperatures in the inland bay valleys by sunday. usually into the mid-90s. as you march through the bay area microclimates throughout the coast, warmer day for your friday. there's the 80s popping up out toward the livermore valley and low 90s as well. tomorrow warmer, these changes are all subtle. it's warmer, cool today. this isn't a heat wave by any means but it will be a very warm two to three day period as we move toward your weekend. when i get back here at 5:45, we're going to look specifically at your forecast temperature for your neighborhood and we'll look at the forecast with your weekend in view, see you become here. a new unmanned vision will use a new method to measure recovery. detectives tiny variations in

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the oakland's as were on the wrong end of a record setter today. for the first time in history, a team hit three straight home runs today. unfortunately for the a's, it was the team they were playing. san jose's fire department received a boost. a group of firefighters who last their jobs last year are back on the force. >> i'm excited to get back in and help people. you have this drive to help people and be out there and do your job. >> reporter: ken allen and two dozen other firefighters who spent months off the job were laid off last summer during budgets cuts. but all have been rehired thanks to a grant from the federal emergency management agency. and today they received their

old badges during a reinitiation ceremony. one local congresswoman paid tribute to their service. >> when there is somebody who's fallen on the street and people are afraid, you come up and do medical treatment. when there's a fire burning and people are afraid, you burn in. >> 49 san jose firefighters were laid off in july of last year. 27 of them found work with contra costa county fire. the rest rejoined the san jose fire crew today. san jose also plans to hire and train even more firefighters recruited this july bringing the force back up to its original numbers. the jury will not be sequestered in the upcoming murder trial of michael jackson's doctor. attorneys had argued that there will be widespread media coverage of the trial. but the judge ruled against them saying he trusted jurors not to read or listen to news reports about the case. dr. murray is charged of giving

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don't drink the water it has to be boiled or bottled to be sure it's safe after a water pump broke and taps ran dry. today those water worries are affecting people and businesses in bay area city. it's all happening in pescadero in san mateo county. rob roth is there now where he just got the results of the first round of water tests. >> reporter: well we're in

front of duharts restaurant in downtown pescadero. normally this place is busy but right now it's closed. that's because everybody in town has to boil their water or drink it from a bottle. this place is known for its fresh baked bread, but for the last few days its racks have been empty. the bakery is shutdown. >> we were really super busy. as soon as we open up people are lined up to get the bread and danish. >> and now? >> nobody. >> reporter: people usually come to this restaurant to get pizza or sandwiches. but the restaurant is closed too. >> there's no businesses, no hours for the workers. so we have to cut out some of the workers. >> reporter: at pescadero elementary school students are drinking bottled water. they're testing the water, the problem is a main broke and taps ran dry.

the pump has since been replaced but the state says until the water is tested, people shouldn't drink it. >> we feel there's a minimal threat right now. there's regulation governing the pot of the water. >> i'm not cooking very much. we're eating prepackaged items and using the microwave. >> reporter: i just learned the first round of test results show the water is clean. a second round of tests should be available tomorrow. if all goes well life in pescadero could return to normal as soon as friday afternoon. reporting live, rob roth, ktvu news. a federal judge in san francisco wants to record next week's hearing on whether to unseal footage of last year's trial over the constitutionality of proposition eight. the measure banned same-sex

marriages in california. backers of prop eight oppose recording the hearing and the release of court tapes. two east bay skate parks that a lot of people fought for are being ripped up by caltrans. ktvu's mike mibach live now with some saying that this makes it tougher for children. >> reporter: the fence is up, it is locked and there's no word, no signs of any skate park and that is because caltrans says it all comes down to these two words on the right. no trespassing. bulldozers, sweepers, all of them up and running underneath the mcarthur maze at 8:00 this morning. and today the skate park is no more. >> it's a sad story, it's a nightmare to me. >> they basically came through with the bulldozers and everything and got rid of it.

>> reporter: ron allen says caltrans will next demolish the skate park under the elevated portion of i80. >> the sad part now is it's now gone. it was not based on any place to do drugs, just a place to ride a skateboard. >> reporter: u.s. senator barbara boxer stepped in at the time and gave her support for keeping the park open. so the city of oakland then decided to lease the land from the state and the cate boarders were allowed to stay. >> the bottom line is, it was built illegally. without permission on state right of way. >> reporter: the former oakland city administrator sent a city saying it failed to renew the lease. >> if somebody is injured, there's a certain amount of liability that we'd have to face. >> reporter: for ron allen and his friends they say it is a dark day for them and the community. >> for it to be something that

is shut down, it shows in america we need to figure out what we're going to do to help our kids. >> reporter: and we asked the city why it declined to renew the lease and by days end a spokeswoman said she could not find an answer. caltrans says it will demolish that second skate park border town in the coming weeks. reporting live tonight, mike mibach, ktvu channel 2 news. lawmakers and business leaders met for a make it in america conference. they're designing a project to manufacturers more in the united states and export. >> if we can pull together using that research, build the manufacturing jobs here, we will make it in america. >> companies in contra costa,

solano, alameda county will gain additional customers around the world. on the campaign trial, mitt romney stomped in new hampshire. romney told the crowd the president should focus all his attention on the unemployment problem. >> you have 25 million people out of work right now mr. president. out of work or in part time job or they stopped looking for work. you shouldn't be on the vineyard playing golf. you should be on your job getting americans back to work. >> reporter: romney also thanked new hampshire voters. and democrats are going to

put together a group called get the vote. a campaign spokesperson says they want to expand the electorat. a series of aftershocks continue to rattle nerves in the east coast this evening. following a tremor, there's been five aftershocks. the largest was a 4.5 that struck just after 1:00 a.m. this morning. a 4.2 and 3.4 magnitude quakes have also rumbled through the area near mineral virginia in the past 48 hours. meanwhile damage to one of the nation's most iconic landmarks appears worse than originally thought. engineers have found extensive cracks inside and outside the washington monument. blocks have cracked allowing light inside the spire. the monument will remain closed

indefinitely until repairs can be completed. taking action against these boxes. why a group in san francisco is trying to go over the head of the board of supervisors and what they want to accomplish.

neighborhood groups in san

francisco are saying that supervisors are going over the head to place at&t boxes. opposers are requesting a study before the project goes forward. organizers say it can be tough for veterans to reenter the work force. >> you're pretty much on your own trying to figure out where the best students are. sometimes going back home might not be the best place. so that's where you try to bridge that gap. >> reporter: today's hirer fair was the only one scheduled in the bay area for the rest of the year. recruit military.com though does have an online job board for helping both veterans and

employers looking to hire them. first lady michelle obama helped the inclusion of a new term. "first bump" can now be found in the dictionary. -- scientists say vaccines rarely have serious side effects at all. the research covered eight common vaccines including those for measles, mumps, rubela, chickenpox and the flu. the former president says

he has given burgers up. president clinton says he is now a vegan. this is the strictest type of vegetarian. you can eat no animal products at all including eggs, milk or cheese. he says he changed to a diet of vegetables and fruit to improve the health of his heart. one of the doctors he credits with helping him make the change is dr. dean ormon who proposes veganism to fight heart disease. the sound of wedding bells are becoming less and less common. 52% of adults were married when it took its survey back in 2009 and that's down from 57% in the year 2003. californians married at the national rate but divorced less often. well part of the golden gate bridge needs a paint job. but weather is getting in the

way. why fog is delaying the work. back here in 10 minutes, we have the friday forecast and it calls for a pretty good warm up. i'll tell you how warm it's going to get in those inland bay valleys. new at 6:00, politicians going head to head in a crowded mayor's race. but find out why this election may be more about who you don't vote for than who you do. also -- this tsunami caused $22 million in damage the to a local harbor. now we'll show you the brand new regulations thrilling boaters. >> this is a shot in the arm at the harbor to get it going. an old plan to get californians back to work. a plan to close a loophole the governor calls outrageous. tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00.

we told you in the past that the golden gate bridge is getting a paint job but it's just taken longer to get that paint job under way. alex savidge is live to tell us why. >> reporter: when it's foggy

the way it is now, paint won't stick. crews are trying to paint the two cables on the bridge, it's more than just cot metic. it's to protect the thousands of steel wires inside those cables. from what little they can see of the golden gate, visitors don't think the iconic bridge is in need of a paint job. >> it's covered with fog. not really, it looks pretty good. >> does it look like it needs a paint job? >> not really. looks good to me. >> reporter: but these suspension cables that hold up the bridge haven't received a new coat in almost 75 years. and they're starting to show some wear and tear which is why workers will apply two coats of paint. >> it with keep the wires within from rusting. that's the goal to stay ahead of the rust. >> reporter: but mary curry says the project has been delayed the last few weeks by weather. that famous san francisco fog is making it tough to give the

golden gate a fresh coat. >> the moisture almost running like ain't off the cables. we haven't been able to apply the last couple of weeks because of the heavy fog. >> reporter: crews are scraping the cables and doing other prep work but will have to wait for the sky to clear. >> as the fog lifts, we'll continue to see more famous international orange paint. >> reporter: this project is important because those suspension cables can't be replaced they have to be maintained. this project is expected to take about four years. of course that's weather permitting. reporting live at the golden gate bridge, alex savidge, ktvu news. a tsunami all the way from

japan destroyed it. but today it's receiving work. what teams could be forced to do to crack down on violence. these stories and much more coming up in about 10 minutes. a hard breaking pictures tonight from iowa where a navy seal was laid to rest and what's so touching here is who was laying right next to his casket during his memorial service. john tumlinson was one of 20 americans who died when their helicopter was shutdown last month. friends and family said goodbye. 1,500 people packed the local high school church for the funeral. but it was john's dog hawk eye who captured everybody's heart. hawk eye walked in and laid downright next to the casket for the entire service as if keeping watch on his fallen owner. breaking news now in a story we've been covering for you for days now. in just the past few minutes here, we learned president obama has declared a state of emergency for the state of

north carolina as hurricane irene is churning toward the east coast. we actually just learned that hurricane irene also caused a near grounding in south florida. that's where seven people on a jetty in palm beach were knocked over and another man nearly drowned in heavy surf. today it slammed the bahamas with winds up to 110 miles per hour. the u.s. navy is following a century's old practice is putting as many ships as possible out to sea to ride out the storm. let's turn our thoughts now to bay area weather. some of us are already looking forward to the weekend and i hope our chief meteorologist bill martin is one of those people. >> one of the hottest, nicer

weekends. we're going to see temperatures into the 90s. along the coast too i think we'll see some clearing. not right now there's the fog. toward the marina glean, there's aquatic park. over toward the ferry building you see a little bit of clearing here and that's the end of market street. the fog will be in there tonight. there'll be plenty of it tomorrow morning like this morning. the difference tomorrow will be a rapid clear off, burn off. temperatures come up a few more degrees. a little bit of warming. as we head into the extended forecast being saturday, sunday and monday. temperatures on the increase certainly. as you go out into the avenuing tonight. we have the fog coming across there already. look for some spotty drizzle out in the avenues. out toward daly city. we're looking for the fog to be very similar in its footprint tomorrow morning to where it was this morning. so here's the fog footprint for the morning. just drop back one. but it burns back quickly. so we'll see a pretty strong push inland but then a rapid

burn off tomorrow morning. and then a really nice day. the forecast for tomorrow morning, there's a lot of low cloud and fog. as you get into your afternoon it warms up. temperatures easily into the low 90s for the inland bay valleys. a day tomorrow very similar to what we saw on tuesday. forecast high for cities where you live. 82 in fairfield, 88 in vallejo. 87 in martinez, 90 at livermore. temperatures on saturday, sunday will be slightly warmer than these. so we're getting into a nice little warm weather run. concerns will be seeing those 90s inland. the concern is going to be the fire danger increasing. they'll be fog at the coast nights and mornings right through the weekend but it's going to stick at the coast. the fog burned down to the water's edge. there's your friday forecast. mid-90s inland. so we might be talking about brush fires then because it's the heart of fire season so

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members presented an analogy shows that city garages are unused. so the city is putting up signs directing people to the garages and developing a plan for people who work in town town palo alto. fairfield police want your help in identifying a graffiti vandal. they passed along this surveillance photo. it shows a boy vandalizing a commercial building. a previous imagine released last month appears to show this same boy. we don't know his age but if you look at the picture you can understand why it's believed he has a juvenile. other images show him running away with a girl who appears to be six or 7 years old. ktvu and our parent company cox enterprises have sought out people who dedicate themselves to improving and preserving the outdoor environment in our community. one man who took that dedication to a whole new level is jeffrey lecher of san

francisco's bay view neighborhood. he started the cosana garden. he turned a garbage filled and crime ridden section of casana avenue into a thriving island of date palms. >> it was not a pleasant place to live, it was not a safe place. and that changed automatically after neighbors met and started focusing on a p ositive. >> the casana project has led to community gardens and parks. jeffrey is one of five cox conservatives highlights this week you can go to our website to read more. when the tsunami hit santa cruz it's been painful to see all the devastation. now with new repairs, people can start puting the damage behind them. and the governor has a plan

to create more jobs in california. and how it should trickle down to californians looking for work.

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that the harbor people needed. >> you wouldn't know it just from looking at it now but this santa cruz dock was obliterated by that japanese tsunami just five weeks ago. tonight it is back in business. good evening everyone i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. a big sign for a recovery at the santa cruz harbor that took a hard hit from that tsunami back in march. robert handa is live now to tell us about what is to happen, robert. >> reporter: it is a little strange to see this brand new modern looking dock in the harbor. this is where the tsunami literally washed the old one away. everyone though there hasn't been an official announcement yesterday. we have learned this new dock will open tomorrow. bigger and safer. workers are putting on the final touches on the u dock. and today many were surprised to see it. especially those who watched the u dock get swept by the tsunami just five weeks ag