good evening. i am frank somerville. >> and i am julie haener. we are following developing news in san francisco. hotel workers are rallying. weeks of protests and the strike. these are live pictures showing you what it looks like. this is where hundreds gathered after protests at two san francisco hyatt hotels. they went on strike last thursday and without a contract for two years. management says it offered them a contract but then they changed their demands. new talks are scheduled this month. bert is acknowledging a mistake in how it responded to a protest. ktvu's eric rasmussen is live with the e-mails that reveal how bart tried to -- >> reporter: it shows that its

spokesperson wanted to round up loyal bart riders who could speak out against the protesters and wrote up a script. bart leaders say that went too far, especially when the riders speaking up on their own. >> reporter: at pow street station -- powell street station t took a few minutes to find riders upset with protesters. >> i don't know what they are protesting. >> reporter: e-mails from bart's spokesman shows he went out of his way to hand pick customers to speak at a news conference, coached them on what to say. only one showed up to the briefing last month when bart shut down cell phone service. >> i spoke to the general manager and the head of our internal affairs department and we will not do this again. >> reporter: bord president

didn't like the idea of spending $800 on suvs that were supposed to transport them. he doesn't think johnson should lose his job. >> he made a few mistakes. there is a microphone in front of him. >> reporter: we could not reach him by phone or e-mail today. but the reply i received said he will be back on monday. eric rasmussen, ktvu channel 2 news. new water flips wine country tonight. ktvu's deborah is live. >> reporter: take a look. a broken line causing big headaches for customers. >> reporter: households are

hauling water. for their animals and gardens after getting the word -- >> over the next 48 hours till repairs can be completed. >> reporter: a drop in pressure raised red flags traced to two breaks on this line. one is fixed. this one still a work in progress. >> they are mostly at the joints. >> the water boss knows it's the same main made of 50-year- old contract. the agency will seek a rate hike to bolster trouble shooting and paintness. >> it's the minimum investment we need. >> i don't want to criticize napa, i love it here but it happened twice here. >> reporter: he is less

forgiving. a watermain break broke outside her place last week. >> as a small business owner i can't close my business. we have to be in business every day. devastating for us. you can't brush your teeth because there is no water. >> reporter: this family with dry faucets notes the irony. >> i am the last one to get water because i am on top of the hill. i am hoping soon. >> reporter: water may run tomorrow morning for this rural outage. the street in town may stretch into next week. ktvu channel 2 news. coming up, the bay area water ways that have the most trash, the new rankings of our creeks and rivers. fbi raid began with agents trying to take the wrong person

into custody. they arrived with guns drawn this morning. this is video of the raid. neighbors say minutes before those agents came to their door. >> pulled me out of the house and they realized i wasn't the person they were looking for. they live across the street now. we bought the house from them. >> police tell us the investigation started when they busted a marijuana growing operation last month. two brunts are in custody. the collapse of the solyndra was the subject of was today. >> lack of critical review is the greatest threat. >> republicans say white house e-mails show the obama administration rushed approval of a $500 million roan guarantee so the vice president could announce it at solyndra

ground breaking in 2009. >> you are a science denier. no reason for government to investment. >> officials say the project went through three years of reviews starting with the bush administration. solyndra's president are set to testify next week. because solyndra failed a number of analysts are suggesting solar manufacturing may be dead as a green jobs generator. but as ktvu's consumer editor tom vacar reports, most loan guarantees are solar are working. >> reporter: even more than a loan guarantee couldn't save solyndra. however, with their loan guarantee and texnology less expensive than solyndra is doing well, as is 1366, which got a loan guarantee. even if solyndra did wrong

doing, solar manufacturing is shaking out world wide because low cost labor china is undercutting everyone else. >> there is another concern, which is that shina is subsidizing. it is hard to know how much but it is significant. and that is also giving their producers a cost advantage. >> reporter: ever green solar, filed for bankruptcy last month. another u.s. panel maker did the same a week later. they are closing a plant in arizona. bp solar closed its maryland plant. overseas, renewable energy of norway and germany cut production. but solar installation companies, as well as solar generation companies, including sun power, which has a $1.2 billion loan guarantee is doing well and growing. in fact, of the $38 billion in

energy department loans to 40 different green energy projects, only solyndra, which represents 1.3% of the money failed. i am consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. they are acretted with pumping $1 billion into california's economy. the company's revenue included $163 million in contracts with california businesses. they paid a million dollars in corporate tax. they have a campus in livermore with 2500 had employees. watt street ended the day with gains. word of more help encouraged investors. the dow gained 141 points. nasdaq up 40%. the nation sent a plane to iran. this comes among efforts to

raise bail to free joshua fattal and shane bauer. they were arrested along with sarah shourd in 2009 while hiking long the iran-iraq border. a plane flew sarah shourd out of iran last year. poll shows president obama is leading the republican contenders by double digits in california, despite the president low jobs approval ratings. president obama leads mitt romney by 13 points. 11% were undecided. he also leads rick perry by 19 points. also with 11% undecided. michele bachmann is headed to the bay area tomorrow. she will meet with votersover breakfast at a home and we will cover the event. she is also scheduled at two events in southern california on friday. a proposed plan to close schooled in oakland is taking

center stage right now. members of the naacp just went inside the meeting. they plan to give a presentation on how the plan would negatively impact the community. the naacp spoke to parents and teachers before the meeting. >> our students have been overlooked for a number of reasons. we are tired of looking that statistics and seeing the numbers drop. >> the schools are on the list of possible closures. it includes two middle schools. two people are hurt following a three-alarm fire. cell phone video shows flames shooting out of one of the units units. all six coboes appear damaged.

crews will hog an area to try to kill mosquitoes that carry west nile. tests show between 1-3% of mosquitoes are carrying that virus. in san francisco, they hosted a reopening of two low income apartments. the buildings have 82 units for seniors. they have to pay 30% of their income towards rent. >> it's a very important thing. this city needs more. >> lived in the mission and my place was turned into a condo. so i was out on the street. >> stimulus money was helped to pay for the renovations. 11 students suspended, the

crack down underway and the lesson being taught at one school district. and the cooling trend continues. cooler towards wednesday. i will show you how much your city will cool tomorrow.

>> in san francisco prosecutors say a father is and daughter prayed on an elderly woman in the case of mortgage fraud. >> we have a family that i would describe as a crime family. >> investigators say they sold a home for a 71-year-old widow who needed money to pay for her husband's burial. they pocketed $100,000 that should have been hers. the brother was arrested for

similar crimes. prosecutors need the public's help in locates carla. the school year is just getting going but close to a dozen students got kicked out of class for bullying. ktvu's mike mibach is live with the tough stants school officials are taking this year. the bullies attack. they are making a statement. if you bully the slightest, prepare to get suspended. >> reporter: k-12, 17,000 students and every grade bullies exist. >> she has been bullied. >> reporter: the district is taking a no tolerance approach in the 1st few weeks of school, 11 students have been suspended. the school superintendent.

>> we have an issue with students harassed, we have that larger issue that existed when i was in school. we are taking it on. >> i feel the least safe during lunchtime. >> reporter: this week the district showed parents footage of a new documentary slated to be shown in classrooms next year. a 2009 settlement required the district to adopt an anti- bullying curriculum. >> these videos that were coming in are very well done. our community was saying that's not our kids. >> reporter: and that's what this is. they are not students from another state, they are real students telling real stories. and by showing parents, it opens the door to solutions at home and at school. >> reporter: you like what they

are doing? >> yah. they are push for the bullying to stop. and that's my main concern. keeping the kids safe. >> reporter: as for the suspensions, the superintendent says she stands behind every one of them. mike mibach, ktvu channel 2 news. the state superintendent will be in the bay area tomorrow to make a big announcement. he will announce the return of full fiscal authority to the emery school district. f a project to connect the highway 4 bibass and the antioch bridge. they voted to authorize the traption authority to build the project. that project is scheduled to take three years to complete. debate over a stretch of land. the government rejected plans for a casino on september 2.

now one counsel member wants housing build there. the mayor wants to see small scale development instead. the head of the epa calling fran's recycling system a model for the united states. she visited peer 96 today. she said other cities can learn from san francisco which keeps 77% of its trash out of landfills. >> if americans say what can i do, i can demand my city do what san francisco is doing. >> tomorrow she will visit san francisco based method which makes environmental friendly personal care projects. santa cruz enacted a plastic bag band. shoppers who want a paper bag

must pay a 10-cent fee. save the bay named five creeks and rivers in the bay areas trash hot spots. san francisco's mission creek and others. save the bay hopes to encourage volunteers to sign up for coastal clean up day this saturday. the cool down did continue today. all week. temperatures sliding down. today was 5 degrees in some locations. fog right now across to the ballpark, into oakland, alameda, albany, berkeley, emeryville, fruitville, fog will be in most neighborhoods tomorrow. highs from today, they were cooler. antioch, 88 degrees. fairfield 80.

the inland antioch had exposures to temperatures. drop off today. these are the highes. some of them. arrows go south. temperatures tomorrow will cool off further. >> what is the good news? we are not talking about fires. in september. that's unusual. i have to tell you. august, september, we usually have a fire somewhere. this weather pattern has been such that it's been a real advantage to northern california in terms of not getting a quick handle on fire. lots of lightning strikes but the fires because of the rain was kept short. tomorrow, bay, low 60s. berkeley, low 60s. cooler tomorrow. slow burn off. especially in oakland. 70 tomorrow clayton. 75 present wood. -- brentwood.

this is the fog foot print. if you saw that, you would go tomorrow morning, there is that much fog, tomorrow is on the cool side. the fog modifies the morning temperatures, adds humidity and makes it slow for temperatures to warm as you can see here. no reds, no 90s. no 8ies. 83 clear lake. that's out of the fog. in the hills. 78 brentwood. 75 livermore. highs with good air quality, cooler than they have been and nice. half among bay 79 degrees. seven-day forecast with your weekend in view. you could have run -- you know, all summer. every time i sit down, you look at me. >> thank you. secretary of state hillary clinton is in san francisco right now. she is here for the bay area's

largest diplomatic gathering since world war ii. how women are the dee to this meeting. coming up at 7:00 on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36. tonight he is out of there. mark is next with the giants major ownership shake up.

. school is warne of the winners of a fitness competition. >> they are in san jose. one of six schools to receive the spotlight award. it will receive a new fitness center. mark is here now, a lot going on with the giants tonight. >> yeah. game this afternoon and the fans want to see the highlights but there is fire works behind the scenes. bill neukom is out as the seem's ceo. he is to be replaced by larry bear. the giants aren't denying this story right now. they are going to make an official statement tonight and tonight at 10:00 we will have much more on this developing

story. here is the fun stuff for giants fans fans to watch play out on the field. the long ball. carlos beltran with a great game for the giants today. down the line in right. that ties things up 1-1 and then later it is carlos beltran again, the 300th of his career. it goes water world and they don't give tim lincecum a lot to work with but just enough, his 13th win. the news was not so good on the other side of the bay for the oakland a's. but we got sound for you too with carlos beltran. >> good pitcher. he throws hard. also got four pitches for strikes. i was trying to do it for pitches around the zone, today was a great day. i mean, we did everything good. pitched good. pablo paid defensive plays. saved a few runs and i came

through with the bats. >> starting to pay off. on the other side of the bay, the a's not swinging so well against the angels. but mark, what a rookie. his 27th homer of the year. big three run 6th inning for the angels. that's a two run shot and the a's go down, 4-1 against the angels. as i mentioned we will have moreen w regards to the bill neukom story, developing as we speak on the san francisco giants. that's the sporting life. >> thank you. you can find complete bay area news coverage on www.ktvu.com. right now check out our report on a expo in the north bay, the national heirloom expo. you can look on www.ktvu.com, look under the slide show tab.