pornography. the suspect crist -- cristful hull. >> we did have a lead he may be in possession. >> reporter: a task force says police seized his computers. right now police don't believe he was involved in any rig or molesting children but they are investigating. >> because he works at a children's amusement park that does raise our concern. >> reporter: parents were shocked. >> i think it's scary to have somebody like that working with children, especially here. there is really, really small children up to 11 and 12-year- old. >> reporter: some feel overall the park is safe. >> i don't think it would stop me from coming. it's a great place. >> reporter: in the past hour the owners sent me a response about the employee saying he has been employed since october of 2008. we received no complaints about

his behavior. his name did not appear on the background check that was performed at the time of hire. officials say the lease has been turned over to the city attorney for review. reporting live, ktvu channel 2 news. a form football player is held without bail today on sexual assault charges. police say marshals arrested tracy slocum last friday after a month long investigation. police say tracy slocum operated as a pimp in several california cities. tracy slocum was a running back from cal. prosecutors say they will not retry barry bonds on perjury charges. a jury failed to reach a verdict during his testimony. baric baric was convicted of obstruction of justice. >> reporter: a bill to improve

worker safety at napa is now on the governor's desk. it would make it a -- the bill comes after several attacks this year and the murder of a technician there last year. patients use contrabans to induce other patients to commit crimes. bart faces controversies in the recent past and today they have a new general manager. >> apointe grace crunican as the district's general manager. >> grace crunican last headed seattle's public transit system where she was criticized. only one bart board member voted against her siting concerns about her salary. >> you have got to sacrifice and take a lore salary. it should be an honor to work for the government and the

people. >> all of the other directors think she is a great choice. she will make up to $320,000 a year, which is less than her predecessor. the sun goes down on solyndra. it is closing up shop less than two years after president obama touted it ozthe future. ktvu's tom vacar is live at the company. >> reporter: when uncle sam invested in solyndra it had a great shot but not today. >> yesterday came to work, you know, did my normal daily duties. nobody had any idea of this yesterday. >> reporter: the company released a statement saying raising capital in this environment was not possible. this was an unexpected outcome and unfortunate. solyndra's choice of technology didn't work out financially. >> the product three years ago

was state of the art. now the products from china made us obsolete. >> the prices are so low their technology isn't cost competitive. >> he says american firms are at a disadvantage. >> the prices out of china are very low. probably some of that is manufacturers have lower costs but there is no question they are heavily subsudized by the chinese government and that is making it a struggle for any company. >> reporter: solar skills are transforrable into other businesses. >> i learned a lot from this company. i have nothing negative to say. the president knows his opponents will pound him. >> at a time when a lot of people in washington are

talking about creating jobs, time to stop the political gamesmanship that could cost us jobs. this should not be a democratic or republican issue. >> reporter: in the game of national poptics he knows, of course, it is. reporting live, consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. there is a ray of hope for some of the people laid off from solyndra. many have high tech manufacturer skills. one wasted no time working for the out of work solyndra employees. >> same skill set. now, you know, it's our turn to bring them back in. >> his company global foundries has several hundred johns the solyndra workers may be able to fill. another apple employee lost

a apple prototype. it happened at a tequila bar. apple traced the home but it was not found. there are reports the iphone 5 will be released this fall. two men are set to be arraigned to selling a prototype from last year. the justice department is blocking a merger from at&t and t-mobiles. alleging customers could face higher prices and fewer choices if it goes through. at&t will fight the claims in court. the dealed with make at&t the largest wireless carrier in the united states. the dow rose 53.58 points to 11,613.53. the nasdaq composite index rose 3.35 to 2,579.46. the end of trading was the end of august, which was a brutal month. the dow lost tiv% of its value. president obama is coming

to the bay area. it begins september 25. he will start in seattle and stop in san francisco, los angeles and san diego before wrapping up in denver on the 7 7th. and next week the president will outline his jobs plan. president obama sent a letter to john boehner and harry reid asking to speak to both chambers next wednesday. john boehner wants him to make it next thursday instead. the debate is also set for the 7 7th in california. jobs are on the minds of people in oakland. dozens of people turned out for a career fair this afternoon. companies that greeted applicants were verizon and clear channel radio.

a state appeals court ruled furloughs issued by agrees agrees was valid. other officials refused to comply saying they violated their authority. but the court found the order did not interfere with rights. people who live in a 50- year-old housing project in san francisco say this is a day they weren't sured with ever come. >> i am glad to have a roof over my head. >> today officials announced funding to help rebuild the housing project. a $30 million grant will pay a third of the cost to billed a community on that site. construction could begin in a year and a half. investigators are trying to figure out what caused concrete to come down on three workers today. ktvu's david stevenson is live

as investigators work to piece together what happened. david? >> reporter: look at the building behind me. set to become a commercial space next june but work came to a halt with an accident that sent four men to the hospital. works were began pouring at 3:30 this morning. a section gave way, crashing down on three carpenters. >> that whole section of concrete fell on them and knocked them down three flights of stairs. >> we were on the site of the accident minutes after it happened. they were rushed to san francisco general hospital. a fourth carpenter was allots hurt but released this afternoon. >> three were very severe. everybody had some sort of

breaks and stuff like that. they are all conscious. which is a good sign. >> cal-osha shows no history of previous accidents or safety violations and no incidents overall statewide with the lead contractor. workers left early in the wake of the accident. >> the west site is red tagged for cal-osha for their investigation the east side is open for work but no one wants to work when something like this happens. >> reporter: the accident is being investigated. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. a sacramento amusement park remains shut down after a accident that injured two workers. the crane collapsed in the afternoon as the workers were doing maintenance on the scandia screamer at the sandia

fun center. cal-osha and operators are investigating. wildlife group is trying to save ducks that someone shot. two injured ducks were found. property manager say four ducks were shot. one died. several others haven't been found. they are trying to capture and treat the birds. blow guns are illegal in california and whoever shot the dugs could face charges. state fish and game wardens say fishing hooks and lines aren't the only threat to brown peles. a dozen birds found with puncture wounds were attacked by sea lions. a spokesman says sea lions and pelicans competing for the same food services. officials are warning a mountain lion was spotted near

a college campus twice. an employee saw the same cat twice tuesday morning, first at 5:00 a.m. and then an hour and a hour later. try learning in what seems like a war zone. the moves that need to be made to make sure students feel safe at oakland schools. if you can't beat them, join them, facebook is saying bring it on to hackers. less fog, increasing temperatures. i will show you what cities warm up the most tomorrow.

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school this weekend saw three schools on lock down and police swarming around neighborhoods. school lock downs in oakland aren't that out of the ordinary. the oakland school district and how it deals with the violence all around it. ktvu's john fowler investigated the effects of the violence and the crime among some oakland school children. john? >> reporter: what happened at this school was hardly unusual. we discovered on average each week 3 oakland schools are on lock down. primarily because of violence in the neighborhood and crime. >> reporter: this school yesterday. police searched for gunman around the school. >> it's the equivalent of living in a war zone. shootings. homicides. robberies. domestic violence. >> reporter: the an martin

center. experts say many students are traumatized. >> it effects the way they see the world. themselves. and then they grow up interacting with the world in a negative way. >> violence towards self and others and propertity. >> sign of -- signs of being withdrawn. not interacting. >> reporter: psychologist say schools can provide only so much safety. >> you walk outside the school doors sometimes and within the school doors you will see siphons violence. >> reporter: don't blame teachers or administrators. >> without creating safe communicates and environments how can kids concentrate? >> reporter: parents complained they weren't notify of the lock down. today a spokesman said in the future schools will notify

parents immediately. reporting live, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. while some california schools are making progress and meeting testing standards, many continue to fail. 49% of public schools met the requirement. 913 schools failed. officials say the state is handicapped by large numbers of students who don't speak english and poor attendance. including the bay area. >> oakland 17% are absent. that's a pattern that stays with the student. by the time they are in 9th grade they lost one year of schooling. >> despite the challenges, public schools seen a 15% gain in testing scores in the last year. >> reporter: more sidewalk changes on the golden gate bridge. today the bridge district said the west sidewalk, which has

been closed will reopen to bicyclist september 10. on september 13 a section of the east sidewalk will be closed 700 feet south of the marine side. that means pedestrians will no longer be able to cross the bridge till mid-january. facebook is issuing a challenge to hackers. bring it on. they are inviting people to break into the site. it's offering $500 for details on how they did it. two weeks ago a hacker promised to shut down the site on labor day. some people believe the campaign may be connected to that threat. >> my guess is facebook really is afraid of "anonymous" and it may be a kind of cat-and-mouse game where facebook thinks it can outsmart "anonymous" and vice versa. >> facebook says it has already paid more than $40,000 in

bounties. a bit of a warming trend heading our way. we are already seeing it off the coast. fog -- you will see the fog erode. this is an hour ago. watch the fog. see how it thins up. not going away completely. trimming it down. northerly wind. that's the direction that sheers the fog from the coast, warms things up and that's where we are going into the next 48 hours and beyond. warm up. heat wave? no. warm up. mid-90s in some spots. coast plenty of sunshine. mid-60s. maybe upper 60s. sort of a -- more fall-like weather pattern. it is a fall-like weather pat. not a high fire danger pattern. south swell, hitting santa cruz

right now. it's a big southern heme sphere swell. high energy, deep water swell. when it hits the south faces beaches it jacks up, they are dangerous. flat like a lake and then there is a wave. divers, i wouldn't bother going diving. they are going to be undivable. today we had clearing conditions and a mild day. tomorrow in the next day, more high pressure. winds tweak off shore. you see what it does to the fog. north, but then they wrap around here thursday and friday. that will warm up us. what happens too, we got the rip currents to worry about, even at ocean beach and the fire danger and the air quality to think about. not a heat wave, no heat advisories, but one of the warmer stretches we have seen this summer.

86 napa. 91 fairfield. 91 antioch. 92 brentwood. 90 pleasanton. forecast highs are above the arg and again on friday. thursday looks good. five-day forecast w your weekend in view shows you plenty of sunshine, lower numbers, hot spots, upper tear is at the beach. anytime you go 69 degrees at half moon bay, that's a warm day. >> thank you. coming up on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36. a girl's famy is asking for your help, she has special these, including a unique device that allows her to walk and that device disappeared. we will have that story in minutes on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36. two plays for the giants are out, the big name roster changes for your san francisco giants .

. breaking news. we just learned president obama agreed to john boehner's wishes and will deliver his job's plan next thursday, that is

september 8. that was set for wednesday the 7 7th. next thursday, that address is set for 5:00 p.m. our time. mark is here now with sports. a big shake up on the giants. >> you got to give it to the management. something had to be done. they looked dead in the water and they cut dies with tejada and aaron rowand. call it a convinceden, we will talk about that letter. but they looked better this afternoon against the cubs and that would be jeff ceppenjure, deep to left, he had a single and a double. when is the last time they had back to back home runs? call the coast guard. deep right center field. his 16th. giants led 2-0 and madison bumgarner, 8 chaton innings. 11 strikeouts. two hits and as it turns out

the giants wind up on the long end, 4-0 against chicago. arizona coming to town over the weekend. two big moves and, of course, the giants in the clubhouse had a lot to say about that. pat burrell talks about the giants ridding themselves of dead wood on that roster. >> you know, it's tough. i have known aaron half my life. but, you know, that being said, it's a -- this isn't a hobby. this is a business. we get paid to win. and unfortunately some moves had to be made. whatever easeten just wasn't working. i don't know what else there is to say. this team needed some changes. >> very well said, pat burrell hitting it right on the head as

did jack with this shot to deep center field. and gone. he has two home runs. home run last night three hits and right now the a's and indians in a 3-3 ball game. huge story with the giants, still in it and making moves. you will hear more tonight at 10:00 but that is the sporting life right now. something that needed to be done. >> interesting. >> not a hobby. heard that before. >> thank you. thank you. you still have a couple dize decide the fate of friday night football, go to www.ktvu.com and vote for the high school game you want to see coverage on. click on game of the week and see all your choices right there on the screen.