having windy conditions but it is heading out to the sacramento and that means a lot of 70s and inland temperatures 50s and 60s and 70s by the coast. sal? traffic is moving well a long 101 and traffic is at the 580 interchange. also this morning we are looking at the golden gate bridge and traffic is moving well southbound as you head to the toll plaza, 6:00 let's go back to the desk. the webster street tube has reopened and the tube connects oakland to alameda. the sister tube connects oakland alameda. they had to shut down at 4:00 this morning. an accident caused a car to stall at the exit of the tunnel and when a toyota came by it rear-ended the first car. the people of the car fled the

scene. the driver is shaken but not physically hurt. the first car is locally registered and police are now looking for the driver. dangerous attacks by dogs raising tensions in a park at berkeley, kraig debro here to tell us about the recent attacks and why some are saying they don't feel safe right now, craig? >> reporter: a man just came with his dog and i asked him if there were problems with not just or only big dogs attacking smaller dogs but he said it is the breed. he says he no longer comes here for that reason. now it's on hoist between sacramento and dr. martin luther king, jr. and apparently there is a published report that another neighbor was quoted as saying, his dog has been attacked over the past six months. if you look at the sign there are a number of rules and they even have quiet hours so it

seems fairly well organized. when i talked to the man you saw a second ago. i said where are owners aren't they supposed to intervene he said yes but it does not always happen. one person no longer comes here and a man who complained went to the city council and he is recommending splitting the park in two or in thirds so that dangerous dogs or bigger dogs can be separated from smaller dogs. he lives here and i am still waiting for his comment. kraig debro ktvu channel 2 news. it is hitting oakland particularly hard and it is not just homeowners who are losing big in this, tara moriarty has more. tara? >> reporter: i want you to take a look at something down here. look at all of the trash that is lining this house. we don't know if this house has been foreclosed on but it sure looks that way. you can see how it has been board up and that costs money

as well as putting on locks, getting rid of squatters and putting police patrols in the area. next year it reports oakland lost $30 million not only in cleaning up trashed homes but it is the first time they have isolated -- isolated individuals. it estimates it has cost property values overall to drop by $12 billion and that's a staggering number. a total of 28,000 homes will have slipped into foreclosure over that timeframe. now the areas hardest hit first on the list east oakland neighborhood is expected to lose mormon $700 million in property value. close behind 601993 and 21, those that cover the fruit dale

district. it claims banks hold the solution and if they could readjust thought those mortgage rates to current market value that would go a long way in stabilizing the economy. live in oakland, tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. time now 6:04 we are still waiting on word on whether the two uc berkley graduates will be released. the attorney for shane bauer and josh fattal filed all the necessary paperwork but he does not expect the iranian judges to take action before saturday. they are still reviewing that bail request. it contradicts a statement by iran's president who said the two men will be released in days if they paid $500,000 bail each. well this morning libyan rebels are welcoming the first world leaders since they took control of tripoli.

david cameron and nicolas sarkozy appeared at this press conference with the libyan national council and 6:14 we will have a live report with one of the first american officials to liz visibility the new libya -- to visit the new libya. it shows california republican voters bucking the national trend. 28% of republicans of californians surveyed prefer mitt romney, nationally rick perry is a front-runner and third sarah palin. the others have 7% of the vote. the poll also shows president barack obama has double digit leads over rick perry and mitt romney. a bigger lead over rick perry, 54 to 3 5%. a new report is out and it

says pg&e's guidelines are not that strict. carrying liquid patrol yum products, they handle 5,000 miles of pipeline each compared to about 1,000 miles each for each marshal inspector. time now checking in or traffic sal what are you keeping an eye on? first of all we will go to the bay bridge and this is the time when it starts to change. there is still not a big back up but you will get right through without stopping. there is a back up for cash pairs and at about 6:15 that is when traffic starts to change. also it looks good on southbound and northbound 880 and that traffic is moving

well. at the heyward commute a new crash on the connector ramp there and also we are looking at the south bay, southbound at 17 on large avenue, still clearing up a motorcycle accident and that's almost gone with a little bit of a back up. northbound traffic looks good. 6:07 let's go to steve. we have a bigger fog bank and a much more pronounced sea breeze. and down in campbell they can feel the breeze picking up with wind chimes and a hint of fall, no doubt about it, cooler and breezy, if you want to tweet me weather information very simple. clearer as we head towards the weekend but today and tomorrow we will have to deal with that area of low pressure. a cooling trend does look weaker. today will be a cool day lots of thunderstorm activity, big

boomers lots of rain lightning hail, back to palm springs up to las vegas as well and the mother load west.$♪ slope of the sierra, -- west slope of the sierra, low clouds fog a decent sea breeze for many, it will be a cool blustery day. east southeast at 8:00 and livermore is calm and it is all being helped along curtsey of that front as it approaches us, it has definitely lifted the fog and it is cool aloft. fog sun cooler windy at times a lot of 70s an locations closer to 90s, 60s and 70s and a few 80s inland but not too many and

thursday and friday cool but with your weekend always in view, it does look warmer to much warmer heading into saturday sunday and monday. some important questions that still need to be answered, also... >> there is a huge price that was paid for it. >> a rare honor at the white house today for a brave marine but he talks about the tragedy that led up to his heroics. n?

. welcome back to the morning news time now 6:12 in just a few hours, president barack obama will present a metal of honor. he will become the first living marine to receive this metal since the vietnam war. he ran through enemy fire to recover the bodies of his fallen comrade two years ago however the marine from kentucky does not consider himself a hero. >> anybody -- hero. >> anybody who receives the metal of honor and is still here to talk about it, it is a great honor but there is a huge price that was paid for it. >> he saved the lives of 13 marines but several afghan soldiers died in that fight. new this morning, the leaders of britain and france

are now in tripoli meeting with libyas new leaders. and the u.s. has also sent a top state official talking about american forces, allison? >> reporter: that's right and the word to muammar gaddafi this morning is give up. this is some video we brought in from satellite from david cameron and french president nicolas sarkozy in tripoli and they are meeting for the first time with libya's new leader and they say they will continue as long as possible to protect libyans. at the same time the secretary of state is the highest ranking official to meet with the new government and met with rebels in a tripoli hospital. the war continues but they end a freezed -- emphasized america's limb at the time role. >> we have not and will not have any combat presence on the ground in libya. >> reporter: he has a stern

message for libya's new leaders and we will have an update on that. for now allison burns ktvu channel 2 news. there was a big earthquake in japan, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake. it hit the same area where almost 20,000 people died after a magnitude 9. 0 quake and tsunami in march. there was no tsunami with this latest quake and still no word of any injuries or damage. denouncing drug violence on the mexican border. the bodies of a man and woman were found hanging in a mexican border town and a sign found next to the bodies said quote, this will happen to all of those posting funny things on the internet. for some people in haiti are demanding united nations peacekeepers withdraw from the country. they protested outside the

national pal liz in -- palace in port au prince. they are angry about the sexual assault of a hashian man. the protest comes just before they are about to ask them to extend their stay. police in santa rosa want to know who left two plastic containers filled with explosive under the third street bridge. police immediately closed the street and called in the bomb squad. one was red the other was black had a two-inch wick coming out the top. x-rays showed they both contained a mysterious white powder which could have caused a big explosion if they were set on fire. luckily nobody was hurt. they will learn more about a surprising change at the

top. bill will not return in that role and giant's president larry bear will return to that position. the fight began over how to spend the additional millions of dollars that comes with the world championship. >> the topic was spending money without consulting them on items they thought should be consulted about. >> some say they believe bill thought it was his money to spend as he saw fit. bill and larry bear will meet with the media at 6:00. they are coming up with ways to keep a popular skate park open. it is the largest skate park in california but it may have to close because of a $61,000 budget deficit. they are looking at three options, they want to either privatize it take away

supervision or take it away all together. they need the extra money by october 1st. >> it is tough. skate borders have not many places to go, liability insurance is so high. >> the kids just want to do that. >> the kids just want to skate. all right, let's look at the commute before i sound really old. let's look at the westbound bridge, not much of a fast track getting into the city. traffic looks good but a back up on the cash lanes. traffic looks good on 101 approaching the 80 split. if you are driving into south bay 17 northbound looks good getting into the main part of the valley. southbound we had a crash at 92 and it looks like another one

is nearby. let's go to steve, i always forget this, please join us on ktvu channel 2 news. it is not the web page but we would like you to join us on the facebook page. let's go to steve. we have a much stronger sea breeze so it will be breezy and warmer and cooler today. thunderstorms continue to pop- up over the sierra and things should start to calm down. 60s on the temperatures and there is a coolness to the air and southwest gusting to 30 at traffic overcast san jose, southwest to south all the way out to sacramento and it is being helped along by that system in the pacific northwest. cooler today breezy and windy 70s inland, temperatures come way down today and tomorrow.

50s and 60s and 70s for most even those hot this time of year will not be today. weekend in view we have a turnaround on saturday and it will be warmer on sunday and monday. pam, dave? it is climbing steadily towards the $4 mark, as you noticed, current prices are $3.99 for a gallon of regular. $3.92 in oakland. over the next few weeks, they will switch to a winter blend of gas and that typically brings prices down. they are making it easier to contact friends and they have a new button which allows people to subscribe to other people's public updates. they can now hear from

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. good morning, right now traffic is moving along to the toll plaza until you get to the pay gates and then there is a little bit of a backup and traffic looks good. take a look, a car unexpectedly, look at this, crashed through this orange count tip bike store bailed all the way to the back of the store, look at the customers diving out of the way, narrowly missed those two people, an 85- year-old woman was parked outside the store she apparently hit the gas instead of the break and that accident caused tens of thousands in damage. the commute could be a long one following a collapse at the california mexican border.

the wooden canopy fell on a car and 11 people were taken to the hospital mostly with minor injuries. 18 of the traffic lines are open but the other 11 are expected to remain closed today. the crossing is the busiest and 50,000 vehicles are entering and leaving the u.s. every day. the father of natalee hollaway disappeared during a trip to aruba in 2005 and her body has never been found. alabama law requires five years before the body is not recovered but he is seeking closure for his family. scarlett is the latest celebrity to have her cell phone hacked. they are looking into a series of intrusions targeting well-

known people. apparently nude photos of her were taken off her cell phone and posted on the internet. time is now 6:25, one cans are using the bang -- republicans are accusing the obama administration of rushing through $500 million in loans despite concerns about it's financial future. >> in this time of record debt, i question whether government is qualified to act as venture capitalists. >> they said they could not compete with foreign manufacturers ever solar panels. uc berkeley is on the list of school that have military friendly environments. they are offering support to

veterans and others are offering programs designed for veterans and this is the second consecutive year uc berkeley made the list. stamford is also on the list. cal comes in on the lit of top college -- on the list of top colleges -- colleges around the country. uc san diego also round up the top ten. it was compiled with -- compiled with world reports. michele bachmann comes to the area today where the republican candidate will be stopping we will have more. controversy over a dog park why some people want to split it in two. >> the opening bell is about to ring and we will tell you what happened overnight and there is good news for stocks.

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. welcome back to the morning news, we are looking at the nasdaq as they get ready to ring the opening bell. it looks like a good day, some optimism, it looks like greece will not default on their debt. it looks like a good opening here as well following some gains mostly overnight in asia as well. we will keep watching that. we also have consumer prices coming in this morning. it was not great news but it could offset the good news in europe this morning. there is the opening bell live, back to you in just a moment. good morning to you, it is thursday september 15thth, i am

dave clark. >> and i am pam cook, it is now 6:30. police in oakland are looking for suspects in two overnight shootings that may be connected. the first one happened just after midnight in east oakland. the victim in this staggered into a house after being hit by gunfire. we don't know anything about his condition right now. but 90 minutes later police found another shooting victim on 98th avenue. police believe he was shot somewhere else and taken to this location. the young man is expected to survive after being shot in the leg but police are not saying why these two shootings may be related. a water line break caused a big mess in one oakland neighborhood. look at this shortly after midnight this water line on east 19th street burst and water shot high into the air. a woman who lives nearby didn't

seem to mind it in fact you will see her walk right into the gushing water. she said it was refreshing. it took repair crews two hours to fix that water line. still no word on what caused that large problem. it happened in the valley and the fire burned over 50 acres. no structures were burned and nobody was hurt. several areas were closed as crews worked on the fire. kraig debro is in berkeley this morning and tells us that the aggressive dogs are making a lot of people nervous, craig? >> reporter: we have spoken to two people this morning at the park this section of the park is called the dog park which i just spoke with shawn gray with her dog and she said she only comes here this time of day because of the problem.$♪ it is not necessarily the larger dogs versus the smaller dogs or

even the breed, it is the owner of the dog that makes all the difference. we spoke to another gentleman and he said it is becoming a problem as well. he says he no longer comes to this park. you can see the size of his dog is a fairly good sized dog but for him it's not the dog size, it is the breeds. miss gray told me dogs will get into packs and they will pick on smaller dogs sometimes so what one man wants to do is separate the park. but you see that right there, you see how far down that dog is going, he said the dog would not be able to do that and one reason she wants to do that is to run the energy out of the dog. reporting live in berkeley

kraig debro ktvu channel 2 news. time now 633, republican presidential candidate michele bachmann comes here to the bay area today campaigning and she will be at private home having breakfast with voters. tomorrow she will be in southern california for two appearances. she will be at the hastings school of law and she will have quite a story to tell about her journey from washington to the bay area and coming up in ten minutes, the emergency that forced the supreme court justice and a cabinet secretary to slide down that emergency shoot. top level u.s. cabinet members and business leaders are in san francisco for apex's first women and economy summit. secretary of state hillary rodham clinton delivered and will deliver the key note speech on friday. the goal is to help women gain access to capital markets and

leadership positions. >> as for the apex, it comes on a grander scale. you get to share experiences and listen to what other people have gone through. >> some 3,000 delegates are attending the summit and secretary of state hillary rodham clinton's key note speech will start tomorrow morning. the crime rate has dropped to a 15 year low. he credits neighborhood watch groups for the decline but one says the reason is because it is under reported. they are on track with a statewide trend and violent crime is at its lowest level since 1968. some residents in south napa have no water following a water-main break. that one broke in two spots. the crews fixed one of the breaks but they are still working on the other.

just four months ago that same water line failed. they are providing water to residents but homeowners says it has been a frustrating couple of days. >> we had no water and we had to feed the cows chicken and we had to bring the water up and put them in the house to rinse plates and put them in the bathrooms. >> now just last week napa city council will have to vote on water rate hikes to pay for all this maintenance. sal? right now traffic is much busier and we keep looking at the toll plaza because it changes from relatively no delays to relatively big delays and it is backed up for 15 minutes before you make it onto the bridge and another ten minutes so it is a total of 25 minutes really trying to get into the city if you count the time on the actual bridge.

also this morning we are looking at interstate 880 and we have some slow traffic moving along relatively well. a crash at southbound 882 which has been there for a while and traffic is beginning to slow down. traffic on southbound 17 looks good and let's go to steve. thank you very much. we are foggy and there are a lot of locations that are foggy. cool across the board 50s and 60s and 70s for many. it will be a cooler day. today morning fog cooler breezy and not much of a change on friday but starting to clear out over the weekend temperatures will get warmer inland gradually. there are some holes in the fog and even on the coast it looks like sonoma coast has some

breaks in the coast. there is a break and it is moving inland and a westerly wind has developed. it will continue into tomorrow and we will start to bump those temperatures up a little built on saturday. thunderstorm activity was impressive and also for the sierra, things are starting to wind down and for us all the eyes are on the west and the pacific northwest. lots of 50s in santa rosa any time you get a southwest gust at travis that is a howling sea breeze. if it is clear, some 50s and a little bit of a breeze, the system moving in that time of year keeping an eye on things in the gulf of alaska. it will usher in cooler temperatures aloft. as you get up around 2 5,000 feet temperatures are cooler and with the delta breeze

things are getting cooler. it should be sunny on most of the coast and later the fog will get chewed up. only 75 fairfield, 73 in the creek, 64 oakland, 74 pleasantton, berkeley 64, low 70s san jose, santa clara valley 70s. san mateo 50s and 60s on the coast. not much change on the coast but saturday things start to turn around and it will be warmer sunday and we will carry that into monday. firefighters are trying to stop a raging wildfire. rain gave some relief but residents in the community are

still worried. some voluntarily evacuated. lightning sparked the fire a month ago and fires are bracing for this coming weekend when it is drier and they are worried about what can happen. some of the firefighters fighting the devastating fires are now homeless themselves. the texas fire is the biggest one destroying 34,000 acres and more than 1,500 homes. that fire is now 75% contained but there is some concern gusty winds may cause more flare-ups. a warning for travelers a scam targeting passengers who own pets. new foreclosure statistics are out and they keep getting worse. we will take you to the zip code hardest hit in the area.

. the webster street tube was closed earlier after car crashes blocked the exits and police are searching for one of the drivers who ran away from

his car. a recent series of dog attacks has some people nervous at berkeley's park. now most of the these attacks have been big dogs biting little dogs. several have you everred minor injuries from those dig dogs. nicolas sarkozy is in libya. they are the first to visit since rebels took control of the capital. ktvu channel 2 news' tara moriarty is in one east bay neighborhood facing a tough time ahead, tara? >> reporter: we are here in 96405 and it is the hardest area hit by the foreclosure crisis in oakland. we are standing here at a home which has been foreclosed on and there is a ton of trash. it has been boarded up, locked up and all of these things

caused money to the tune of $300 million. now that is according to a new report that says from 2008 to next year, oakland lost nearly $300 million not only cleaning up trashed homes but in property taxes as well. it is the first time researchers have isolated neighborhoods. now it estimates it cost property values to drop overall to $123 billion -- $12 billion. we are nearly 5,000 -- nearly 5,000 houses have slipped into foreclosure and this covers sections of the fruit dale district. if they could readjust people's mortgages to current value it

would stabilize. tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. if you supply out of fs o, you should know about an e-mail scam that targets pet owners. they have been sending phony e- mails offering to ship pets overseas. the e-mail asks you to send money for pet vac nations before the pet -- vac nations before the pet can be shipped. they claim to be from the pet vaccination department but there is no department like that at fs o. they say if you get an e-mail like this just delete it. in the hastings column of law she will be interviewed and then answer questions from law students. topics include equal protection and free speech. she may also comment about her airplane scare last night. she and other passengers

arrived safely at fs o. we understand her original flight was about to take off from the airport when smoke started coming out of one of the engines. all 185 people on board had to slide down the emergency shoots including a mother with a newborn baby. the acting commerce secretary rebecca blank was also on that flight but we understand she was also not injured. sal, do you have everything under control on the commute? >> well we are looking at some traffic troubled spots here and unfortunately we have some things going on. let's start off with novato, there is a new crash southbound and traffic will be a little bit slow in this area. give yourself plenty of time if you are driving from sonoma to this area. interstate 880 is looking good if you are driving passed the coliseum. southbound we had a troubled

spot near highway 92 and there is some slow traffic there. also we had some problems this morning on westbound dumbarton approach. castro valley, there is a bicycle accident near the cast tore valley and police are handling that. san mateo bridge westbound that traffic looks good but it looks a little more crowded. >> some flight delays at fs o and the fog bank is being hemmed along by -- helped along by a strong system. cooler today windy and breezy, weekend looks better, temperatures inland start to warm up. big thunderstorms erupted in southern california and also the sierra valley most of that should start to calm down. 50s on your temperatures, 52

heyward. fairfield's 56 along with winds out of the southwest gusting to 30 miles per hour. overcast towards san jose. a lot of locations are saying low clouds or fog. if you don't have that it is clear and cool and a hit of -- hint of fog is in the air. it will push those thunderstorms off towards the east and it will usher in a cooler pattern. low clouds breezy sunny at times, a lot of clouds inland. canfield 72, 60s for many closer to the basement concord pleasant hill 80s. caster valley, 70s from san jose cupertino, a lot of 50s and 60s on the peninsular. palo alto mountain view, woodside and red wood city it will be a cooler pattern report

many today. not much change -- cooler pattern for many today. not much change. it will warmup sunday to monday. what is more concerning is the increase came labor day. jobless claims usually fall during a short ended workweek. 42 8,000 applications last week and the numbers of claims have to fall below to indicate a trend is enough to lower the unemployment rate. checking in on how markets are responding, we have some optimism and it helps european markets up that agrees greece will not default on its loans. i am surprised the dow jones industrial average is as high as it is today. a live look at the big board, 333 and they are trying to get

rid of those annoying you were out notices. customers with receive phone e- mail or text alerts notifying them in advance and providing a four hour window of when the package will arrive. it looks like another tuition hike is and coming for california -- is coming for students and why they say it is necessary. a mysterious light was seen in the sky and why it was seen across several states. coming through the sunnyville area, we will tell you more about this coming up. çñóoñoe+

. welcome back to the morning news, consumer prices are up this morning and the market is up on the optimism in europe and the dow jones industrial average is up over 100 points right now. they are reporting a $2 billion loss because of a rogue trader. we are learning a 31-year-old was arrested in london on suspicion of fraud. no customer money was affected.

they could report a loss for the entire third quarter as a result of those rogue trades. university of call northern why relation -- california reason generals -- regents. today they will debate a plan to raise tuition by 8% or as much as 16% every year through 2016. they say a bold new approach is necessary to save the university from a decline into immediate objecting ratty. they failed -- immediate objectingty -- immediate objecting critty. there is no threat of a strike here. union workers agreed not to walk out as a condition of the

2009 auto bailouts. contracts will be extended until a new deal is workinged out . it happened at the ponderosa complex on bear valley lane not far from interstate 680. the fire started 3:00 yesterday afternoon and one man went to the hospital with second degree burns on his legs. another person was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. time now 6:55, the mysterious light people saw all the way to arizona was most likely a fireball or meteor.

you are looking at video from phoenix. scientists believe that fireball broke up and disintegrated before it hit the ground. sal? things are getting busier, pam and dave, we are looking at traffic that will get busier in the eastbound. you will see traffic on the span is busy and we have a stalled motorcycle on that bridge which caused things to be a little slower than they normally are. let's look oakland northbound and southbound and that is moving a long nicely. on the freeway there is a bicycle accident being handled by chp and 80 southbound slow traffic approaching 882.

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