>> reporter: that's well beyond those planes from where you see there. this pilot i talked to says he thinks those kind of shows will go on. >> this airplane, is built like a tractor. >> reporter: he even trained pilot jimmy leeward on it in 1972. >> leeward was in the front cockpit, i was in the back. >> reporter: it was leeward in this cockpit when it suddenly crashed. fans in reno hope the show will return next year. >> this was a fluke. it could have had a news helicopter fly over head and fly out of the sky, anything can happen. >> reporter: but perkins says the disaster will have an impact beyond that event. >> yes there will be a ripple effect. yes there will be some diminishment of the airways venue, yes the faa will make more rules. >> reporter: yes he says there's an important difference

between air races and the kind of air show pilots are planning for this weekend. >> it's a well scripted presentation of the airplane out in front of the audience. no energy directed toward the audience at any time. all the variables very well controlled. >> reporter: no spectator has been killed in an air show in the u.s. since 1952. perkins says it's a level of safety he can vouch for. >> i do air show, have i had close calls? yes, have i had close calls at air shows, not really. >> reporter: they have planned no changes to the show itself. eric rasmussen, ktvu news. and our coverage continues online at ktvu.com. you will find more information about the victims of the reno air race crash and the ntsb investigation just go to the reno plane crash tab. san bruno neighbors today joined together to close the physical and emotional crater

that left behind by the massive pg & e pipeline explosion last year. christien kafton live tonight in san bruno with the emotional healing process going on there tonight. >> reporter: we're here on glen view drive. take a look you can see the road is still closed but there's been a great deal of activity out here today. you can see that crews are just now finishing the work of filling up that huge crater. the first shovel fulls were turned by hand and by the people who live here. one by one neighbors lined up to fill in the crater left in the middle of glen view drive. but irma vidas stayed across the street and reflected on that day. >> just remembering the lives that were lost, and thanking god that it wasn't us. >> reporter: she says coming out and filling this crater is a look at the strength of the

community. >> just a step in rebuilding but for many it's a step in the healing process that we have to do. >> reporter: carolyn's home is just a few feet from the fire ball. all that's left now the a vacant lot. she's now living out of the neighborhood but says she's impressed by those who are staying here close to the crater. >> they're still here, they still have to come in and see it. i don't think i would be as well emotionally as i am if i would have to do that. >> reporter: she says filling in this hole is a step toward healing. >> today this part is we're going to go forward and move on and make a better neighborhood and hopefully pg & e will be doing everything they said they would do. >> reporter: you can get a sense of just how much work went out here earlier today. city state lawmakers had represents here to say they would continue to work on legislation to make sure

companies inspect pipelines, the result to keep what happened here from happening again. the pg & e pipeline blast killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes in san bruno on september 9th of last year. the massive fire fight was filled with a massive fire ball that firefighters fought for hours. michelle le's body has not been found but we still don't know how she died. ktvu's patti lee is in hayward where she spoke by phone to the volunteer who actually found michelle le's remains about the closure the discovery can provide to the family. patti. >> reporter: i had the chance to speak to karen mcgargel about an hour ago. she says it's hard for a family member to accept that a family member is never going to come home, but help bury a loved one

helps in the closure. karen is a crusader working in the memory of her daughter. the focus now is determining how le was killed. there's questions about how her the suspect, a much smaller woman killed and disposed of the body. the defense team could argue that esteban was incapable of lifting the 120 pounds by herself. >> it does inject the certain amount of sympathy into the case for her. again depending on what she says whether she testifies and

if the jury likes it. hayward investigators have dismissed in the past about the circumstances. >> with a blow to the head or something like that it's easily capable. >> reporter: usf professor talbot says determining the cause of death could clear up the cause. her cause of death may stay a mystery. but the fact that she has been found and identified is a step forward for her family. >> and tonight the le family is grieving privately. reporting live in hayward, patti lee. a san francisco woman who says she killed a man in self- defense is now behind bars accused of murder. san francisco police say 42- year-old ethena worthum stabbed anthony payne sunday morning.

she initially told detectives that payne entered through a door and tried to choke her. but now investigators have found that worthum was jailed for murder in 1995. this morning, veterans came out to welcome armed forces. earlier today a navy soldier announced he is ready to rejoin the military. >> i have been asked why i would want to go back in and i refer to it as it's sort of like a religious calling. >> reporter: the pentagon official in charge of personnel issued a memo one minute after midnight ordering troops to treat each other with dignity and respect. today the national guard responded to the repeal of don't ask don't tell saying the repeal will strengthen us as a force. 23,000 nurses all across northern and central california

are ready to walk off the job. members of the california nurses association assembled their picket signs. they are registered nurses at 34 sutter health and kaiser hospitals are planning a one day strike this thursday. nurses negotiating new contracts say the company is making millions by skimping on nursing care. >> nurses have been blowing the whiz whistle on these cuts. >> both hospitals are bringing in nurses to work during that strike. two top executives of the failed bay area company solyndra say they will refuse to testify. bryan harrison and silver told the commerce committee today they will invoke their fifth

amendment right refusing to answer questions. meanwhile solyndra says it wants more time to find a buyer. reuters is announcing the company wants to take bids until october 26th. 11,000 people lost their jobs earlier this month. new survey shows a positive outlook for the wine industry over the next few months. 71% of professionals say they expect the industry to show economic improvement. wine executives also say they expect prices will remain low despite a great shortage. that's because consumers and retailers have gotten used to price cuts made during the economic slump. 10 new cases of west nile virus are being found in dead birds. four birds were discovered in concord and one each in walnut creek and lafayette. according to the centers for disease control, 202 people have been infected with the disease this year, seven of whom ended up dying.

state officials say the west nile virus has now been confirmed in 29 counties, but here in the bay area only two counties have tracked the virus contra costa county as we just told you about and in santa clara county where 20 birds have been found with the virus and 14 mosquitoes. san jose charter schools get a big boost from a silican valley ceo, coming up. i'm back here at 6:00, we're going to have the forecast for you tomorrow and it calls for some very high temperatures. and a little bit of fog we'll let you know where that fog could show up.

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release of two uc graduates went to court today but were not released. last month the court convicted them of being spies. bay area transit officials warn today that service could be slashed if federal funding cuts could come through. b.a.r. t. held a day of action and urged passengers to wear red. they say the house of represents have proposed slashing public transit by more than 1/3. >> there'll be several impacts, fares will go up, services will be cut. agency jobs will be lost. contract jobs will be lost. and also passengers will be less likely to get to their jobs. >> reporter: organizers say similar rallies were held

across the country. the port of oakland has just received federal funding to repair taxi ways. the transportation department will provide $6.5 million for maintenance. the airport shares more than 300,000 passenger or 300 passenger and cargo flights every day. president obama will visit another bay area tech power house when he comes to town next week. president obama had a meeting at facebook. now linked in sees the president is coming to visit -- lindkin says the president is coming to visit. she spent millions running for governor and lost but today meg whitman opened her pockets again, this time to help some silican valley schools. new at 6:00, robert handa join us from san jose where she went with whitman into the classrooms she's investing in. >> reporter: we're in san jose where you can see there can be

a lot of challenges for children here. it's one reason why parents asked charter schools to set up here. and today the program got a big boost. >> reporter: meg whitman toured two schools today. the students come primarily from an area that historically has a high drop out rate. >> graduating from high school does not equal being ready for college. those are two very different things. >> meg whitman. >> reporter: today whitman made a contribution to help schools over the next 10 years. >> charter schools are showing they can change the trajectory. they can make a difference in the school's scores, in the college readiness. >> reporter: the academic

support is huge. >> kids aren't left alone. high school is pretty challenging. >> reporter: summit has been some what reluctantly accepted by the east high union high school district. >> we lose resources to the charter schools that we authorize in our district but at the same time, what we're creating is a competition and inspiration. >> reporter: whitman told me it doesn't necessarily mean a return to policy. >> here's the good news, i'm not seeking office. i'm not running for anything. so i get to do -- i will never say never but probably not. >> reporter: but whitman still sounded like a candidate at times challenging executives to make donations to education. live in san jose, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. a small group of protesters is camped out in san francisco's financial district. part of a national movement critical of corporate america. >> jobs are being destroyed right now. education is being destroyed right now. >> reporter: the demonstrators say large backs of corporations

hold far too much political and cultural power in the united states. they say they want to show that individual citizens need to be heard. a related protest is going on in wall street in new york city. the league of california cities called on governor brown to veto a bill that would make it harder to build new wal- marts or over superstores. the bill would require big box stores to prepare an economic impact report as part of the process. the league says the bill was too restrictive making it difficult to open stores and create new jobs. but supporters of the bill argue requiring an economic impact report will help keep mom and pop stores from being overrun by those superstores. bay area is having its second straight spare the air day. we'll give you a live look at the foothills east, you can see how dry it is out there. it's hot and there's not much wind and that's propertied air quality officials to declare another spare the air day tomorrow. ktvu's chief meteorologist bill martin joins us with a look at the current conditions.

>> we have a little bit of wind out there right now, three spare the air days in a low. that's when you know you have yourself a little bit of mini heat wave as well. we have temperatures in the upper 90s. offshore we have some wind. at the golden gate bridge we have wind gust to the west. it's funneling through the gap. the northerly grade, that means the wind is coming out of the north to the south. are significant enough that there should be a repeat of what we had today. these were the highs from today, highs tomorrow will not be quite adds warm but that will be, i think there'll be a lot of mid- and upper 90s. right now what we're talking about here, low clouds possibly and patchy fog at the coast. but not a massive amount of it. certainly a little cooler coast. as you head toward the bay area weekend. we're looking for temperatures to really come down. so it's a spare the air day tomorrow.

the areas that will be most impacted are the bay area valleys. you know that. that on shore wind mixes out the atmosphere. the boundary layer. that helps the ground level ozone. it clears it out a little bit. but in these inland valley they are not getting any sort of sea breeze. slight offshore winds but not powerful. not powerful enough to get a red flag warning. the heat is hot, it's dry, but these winds are missing. that fire we had yesterday fortunately didn't have any wind or maybe we'd be covering it today to tell you the truth. 89 in vallejo. these are your forecast highs for wednesday. 98 in brentwood. so one of the warmest weeks we've seen one of the warmest combined periods that we've seen really this summer. san mateo, redwood city, mid- 80s, upper 80s. temperatures into the mid- and upper 90s tomorrowment there's

your thursday, slightly cooler and then we gradually clear toward the bay area weekend because your weekend is always in view on our five day forecast with temperatures there back into the 80s. it's still another hot one tomorrow. >> thanks, bill. gary deco, french laundry and syrus all top the lists of restaurants. but there's a shake up in the annual must see survey. manreset jumps to the top spot followed by aubergne and meadowwood which were not in the rankings last year. the owner of a mailbox service store overcharged one customer to the tunes of tens of thousands of dollars and there may be other victims. he was at that store when our reporter showed up today. find out what happened when we asked him about it in 30

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we have some breaking news right now in san francisco where a 5-year-old girl was shot by a stray bullet while walking with her father in the bay view. what we know right now is that the girl was shot in the leg and taken away in an ambulance to the hospital. her father was not hit. we do have a news crew on the way to the scene and we'll have more details for you on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36. many parents are apparently having a hard time with child safety seats. state safety officials say 70% of child seats are improperly installed. they say some seats are the wrong child for the child or the that the harness is too lose. the chp says proper installation can cut fatalities by 71%. let's talk a little baseball, mark is off. the giants still hanging by a thread. >> hanging by a thread exactly as we open a three game series.

3.5 back in the wild card race. but they aren't getting any help tonight from the florida marlins. gonzalez in the 2nd inning. they were just getting started. michael bourn finds the gap. the braves got three in the inning. the rays now lead the marlins but the heat will stay on the giants to win again tonight. we last saw manny ramirez he was being released on bail in florida amidst charging of domestic violence. he abruptly retired after being accused of muscle enhancement drugs. he has now found a place to play without drug testing.

the dominican republic has confirmed rodriguez is playing for a team. both james hannah and his codefendant nelson walker were seen stuffing his pants with dolphin jerseys and hats. they were arrested in the parking lot and then came to court wearing dolphin jerseys. tim lincecum gets kershaw tonight. we'll see you at 10:00. >> we continue to stay on top of breaking news. we got word that a 5-year-old tkpweuz girl was hit by a stray bullet. at this point we know the little girl was shot in the leg. she has been taken away in an ambulance to the hospital. we know her father who was with her was not hit. we have a ground crew headed here as well.

we'll have more details coming up tonight on the 10 clock right here on ktvu news.

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