news continues. this is ktvu channel 2 news. thank you for joining us it is thursday september 22nd, i am pam cook. >> and i am dave clark, here is steve. thursday, our last full day of summer, this is it guess what, the fog is going to come down. fairfield antioch will still be in the 90s and san jose also santa rosa fog has increased and starting to move into those areas, here is sal. a look at 880 northbound traffic is moving along nicely with no major problems as you drive passed the coliseum and this is a look at the 80 freeway, some of the fog is back in and you can tell so if you drive in the fog make sure

you slow it down. on hawley street, an injury crash, it could affect northbound traffic, and there is an alternate. 6:01 we are getting new information in the story of a body of a woman found in a restaurant. there is a photo of the man who police say is responsible for that woman's murder. a s.w.a.t., special weapons and tatics team surrounded the area where the man was hiding out with friends or family after he killed his ex- girlfriend. let's look at the suspect, after a 16 hour standoff with police negotiations broke down and just before 2:00 this morning police shot him when he came at them carrying a long rifle. they believe he killed the

woman at the restaurant where she worked in retch month. -- richmond. friends and family say he was her ex-boyfriend and had been talking -- stalking her for at least the last month. it is important to document the stalking so they would have a record of it. >> we can get victims the help they need to get away from these perpetrators. they are obviously violent and this is a tragic end and we never like to hear about cases ending in this way. it's just very tragic. >> police will not say how she was killed but her boss found her in his bathroom. at 6:00 an anonymous caller called reporting a man beating up a woman but when they called they left. there were no witnesses so they left. police believe they were in deed that couple fighting and he is in stable condition. they say he has an extensive

criminal record. there were several warrants out for his arrest and he will most likely be charged with murder come monday. i am tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. nurses preparing to walk off the job at the hospitals around the bay area and beyond, kraig debro is in oakland to talk about what is behind this one day strike, craig? pam, as you come to us on keizer and oakly you can see the nurse's association -- oakly,

you can see the nurse's association is thing up and workers will be walking picket lines at 21 keizer hospitals and some sutter hospitals as well. this is an e-mail -- do -- . this is a priority. late yesterday afternoon they started setting up and some of the pictures here, they started setting up in preparation for this one day strike. 21,000 keizer nurses could be striking today but they are only going on a strike to show support for 4,000 members of a union representing optical and union employees. those healthcare workers are not under contract but many of them if not all of them work for keizer as well. many of them work for sutter hospitals berkley sutter santa rosa and caster valley just a few being picketed and mental healthcare want their voices to be heard in treating patients with return visits. >> i have a great group of

nurse managers, assistant nurse managers as well as other leaders not part of the nurse's association and my team will be all here, we do have a number of other plans, some other contract workers we have in place that we have fully vetted and have been assessed for competent is and they will -- competencies. they will be reassuring them they will have their bases covered. picket line will start at 7:00 and there will be a rally on oakland. reporting live ktvu channel 2 news. we will continue to check in with kraig debro throughout the morning and we have a complete list of the affected hospitals. just look for the right now section right now on the front page of www.ktvu.com. a vote gives them a stinging loss with a bill to

prevent a government shut down at the end of next week. we will bring you a live report from our washington d.c. on why democrats and republicans voted no for that measure. just before the congressional hearing of that bankruptcy of that solyndra company, from the beginning they saw questionable spending and they claim their bosses spent large amounts of money on buildings and conference rooms that did little to improve the products. they will look into whether politics did little to help. shane bauer and josh fattal spending their first full day of freedom after spending two years in jail.

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nations and many believe it was a move to improve the outlook of their country. they will set off controlled fires near tennessee street. controlled burns will begin at 8:00 a.m. and will continue until late this afternoon. the same drill is planned for tomorrow. >> all right, people should look out for that, what else should we look for? >> sal is covering traffic. this is sort of a new crash and we were speaking here and i heard it coming down northbound saratoga avenue, it is so new i will vet to get it during this traffic report so first of all let's go to the crash we know of southbound 101 on hawley street, this crash is blocking two lanes and the damage is already done. we have some slow traffic as we head to the commute.

let's go to the bay bridge toll plaza and the traffic is moving along relatively well getting up to the bay bridge. this is the golden gate bridge, he is out there in the cold bitter weather and looking at the fog, steve and i have been talking about the fog a lot. some people are happy to see the fog but if you are driving make sure you slow down. now i do want to mention that crash we found. i will move the maps down over here. it is northbound 280 at saratoga off ramp. you can see they are already slowing down on 280. avoid 280 and get on the freeway after saratoga avenue, you will be much better off. fog still coming back, more on the shallow side, 500 to

1,000 feet, some of the higher elevations 5,000 feet, not making its way all the way inland. maybe tomorrow but it's still moving in now and according to my tweet, some people love the hot weather, but if you want the cold weather go east. cool for some warm to hot for others, fog bank will take us to tomorrow. high clouds coming in on saturday from the south and then a cold front actually moving through on sunday which will lower temperatures and will give mendocino their first rain. cooler for some, still warm to hot, 88 to 9 on the high -- 98 on the highs and the trend is to bring it down, it started yesterday, more so today and saturday and sunday

temperatures will take a plunge. fog to the north, still clear at last check, southwest at 10 but it is trying to crank up the delta breeze yet the napa airport is usually a sign of a cooler pattern this time of year. cloud cover with a pretty good system moving into the north of -- north of us and it will probably pick up the sea breeze. a lot of 60s and 70s closer to the coast and bay, a big difference in some of these temperatures and i am going under the forecast projection models. up to clear lake and ukiah, 72 alameda, 97 brentwood, pleasantton, 90s there, 82

fremont, 84, 86 for woodside and the city 50s and 60s. san bruno to san mateo, 70s to near 80 palo alto 83. temperatures will be brought down and it will be much cooler along with a lot of clouds. new information about injured giants fan bryan stow the new information we are getting. and the next big thing for handle could be unveiled in the next couple of weeks. the voice of real girls. since i post new looks almost every day... i have to shop almost as often. t.j.maxx is great because i can score designer fashion...

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. family's website said bryan stow is able to say his own name as well as the names of his son and daughter and has asked to see pictures of his children. new blood clots have appeared and bryan stow's recovery will still be a long one. they are investigating a robbery and this is a set back for very special students. somebody stole six i-pads. they are used for special needs students to develop their skills. it happened on september 6thth and a company which made ipad cases heard about it and

replaced the stolen ipad. the threat of another government shut down is looming. a bill to keep the government- running collapsed in the house last night but a program to help away area car maker is spared at least for now. >> reporter: that's right and the bottom line is funding for government operations runs out at the end of next week and the bill to keep the government running went down last night. they voted no they wanted money in the bill to be offset by bigger spending cuts. democrats also voted no saying the cuts went too far. they specifically did not like cutting money from a company. that bill is helping and democrats say losing it will hurt jobs. >> this keeps america number

one that creates jobs, good paying jobs in our country. it's really hard to understand what the motivation is for that. >> now the huge question is, will democrats and republicans reach a deal and congress is expected to be on recess next week. we will hear more when house speaker john boehner holds a news conference. allison burns ktvu channel 2 news. mahmoud ahmadinejad will not agree to a delayed fought for -- delayed vote for statehood. he will formally request statehood and in his speech at the un yesterday, president barack obama said the palestinians must first reach a peace accord with israel. the typhoon has killed 16 people and caused a lot of

damage. heavy winds knocked down a tree right on top of that taxicab. it triggered flooding and missed that nuclear power plant that was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami. it was a fear it could cause another radioactive leak. meantime, they have intensified a bid and it should get weaker as it moves further west. the national hurricane center says winds have increased to 65 miles per hour but it is expected to weaken within the next 48 hours and there is no immediate threat to land. golden gate transit is expected to approve new funding to install wireless service on its bus fleets. they are expected to promote free wireless to its passengers and service on some $170,000 of

the maintenance costs are already in sight, 90,000 are needed to install that wireless system. let's go to sal, did you figure out when it just happened on the roads? >> we did have that crash northbound 280 at saratoga, so 208 is already slow. we want to move the map back up southbound 101 at hawley street you can see traffic is going to be affected by this crash which is blocking three lanes, chp has issued an alert and you will want to use another route. northbound southbound 880 traffic mott rately him -- moderately heavy as you drive near the coliseum. here in bay point, we already have busy traffic coming up at the pass grade. here is steve. we do have fog for some.

there is a lot of fog and it is clear here, there are some areas that have not made it, but there is some thick fog, low clouds coast and bay visibility for some not for all. temperatures felt cooler and some of the higher elevations are not running cooler. there is a cold front, yes, and a cold front moving into the north and we are on the southern edge of it. overtime fog will win out and some of those clouds will maybe pay a visit. low clouds fog, very warm for some, there will still be some inland and it did bring temperatures down for san rafael, red wood city, 50s and 60s and 70s coast and in the city and along the bay. fog sun, temperatures continue

to cool high level cloud deck moves in and cold front moves in very light rain towards the north. well the number of people filing for first time unemployment benefits slipped slightly, several applications were received down 9,000 from the week before which is close to what economists expected. that number is still an indicater of weak job growth. they reveil they will open the apple iphone. al gore said during a conference in south africa he believes they will be out next month but apple does not comment on media reports. a major tourist attraction causing problems with southern california homeowners, what they are saying to the famous

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county history. this week they found 7,000 plants. now the sheriff's department took photos shortly after the bust. there are huge marijuana plants everywhere you look worth millions of dollars. they were first tipped off by two deer hunters which stumbled across it last week. most of the time they use armed guards to protect their farms but fortunately nobody was around this time. a mexican drug cartel may be running the big pot farm and authorities are now him thing they are very close to making arrests. time now 6:26 caitlin done away is expected to enter a plea in the case of a death of a two-year-old girl. she hit the little girl and her mother while in across walk. she was texting while driving and hit them. the little girl was killed, her mother was seriously hurt.

the raceway showed us a picture of a woman drag racing and it was celebrating her 85th birthday. afterwards her grandson didn't she she could reach that speed but she did. just hours ago a police standoff after a connection to a woman's body in a richmond restaurant. calling 911 and hanging up could be costly, we will tell you how much it will cost and why. the opening bell is about to ring on wall street and we will bring you the numbers.

. they will see a 250 point drop as the federal reserve issued a pessimistic view. they are talking about a possible recession and a lot of people are saying we already are. stock markets are all down. thank you for joining us on the ktvu channel 2 news thursday september 22nd, i am dave clark. >> and i am pam cook, time now 6:30. earlier this morning a 16 hour police standoff came to an end. tara moriarty has more on how this is connected to the discovery of a woman's body we told you about in richmond. police say the man who was

hiding with friends and family, he is responsible of killing his ex-girlfriend. >> reporter: the standoff did not end until a few hours ago. he had a history of domestic violence and could not let his relationship with this 30-year- old woman go. they say he killed her tuesday night at the bakery and restaurant in richmond where she worked. friends and family said he had been stalking her for at least a month. they came here after receiving a tip. >> we continued to negotiate with him and tried to negotiate with him throughout the night. the suspect continued to be uncooperative. at 1:40 this morning he addressed some officers with a rifle, he was shot and taken to the hospital. >> police will not say how she

was killed but her boss found her body in the restaurant of a bathroom. at 6:00 that same night, some people reported a couple arguing and fighting in front of a restaurant. now we don't know his condition but we are told he is stable and has an extensive criminal record. police have several warrants out for his arrest. coming up we will try to talk to her family and she does leave behind two children. tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. time now 6:32, the city of vallejo trying to put an end to 911 hang ups. telling us about the new fees designed to teach everybody an important lesson about making accidental emergency calls and we have more from vallejo, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are at the police department and the dispatch center and police say if you have an emergency, please call 911. it is the hang ups false alarms

they are trying to stop. there is a new ordinance that goes into effect that says if you misuse the 911 system you could pay up to $200. we are talking about dispatchers and if they don't pick up they have to send out two officers to make sure everyone is okay. on average it happens 45 times a year and it is unnecessary resources and delays police's responses to true emergencies. recently i spoke about staffing in general in the post bankruptcy world in vallejo. >> it is quite startling to see how few people they have. in the other organizations i have been in where they have big money problems, i have not seen the level of staffing we have here. >> reporter: now this ordinance

was passed a couple of years ago but it does go into effect october 1st. this is a copy of the ordinance which says if you get a bill it could be as high as $200 which you could get a chance to appeal. ktvu channel 2 news. surveillance video could help shed some light it happened 11:00 yesterday morning. now the two men began fighting and at 1.1 pulled out a gun -- at one point, one man pulled out a gun. court ordered reforms for oakland police and those reforms are part of the fall out from the 2003 riders police corruption case. last year they threatened to put the entire police force

under federal control, pointing to what he called questionable officer conduct in recent years. the judge now has new concerns saying oakland police are often too quick to draw their guns. it has certainly ban busy week for facebook users after several changes were made. updating the social networking site is not over yet, coming up, the new additions being announced today and why constant upgradings are needed to keep facebook in a new light. a san francisco based microblocking will start with presidential candidates. their ads will roll out in the coming weeks. other candidates will expand as they expand their political

sales staff. political ads will stand out from other advertisements. gloves are expected to come off in the debate between the republican presidential candidates in orlando florida. in recent days, the candidates have ramped it up especially true of mitt romney and rick perry. with five months remaining, candidates are increasingly focusing their attacks on each other rather than president barack obama. now today president barack obama heads in republican territory to sell his job's plan. president barack obama is scheduled to speak at a bridge that crosses from ohio to kentucky which is the home state of senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. >> they think the best way to distract people is to stand near a bridge in a swing state

and pit one group of americans against another and hope his critics look bad if they don't go along with him but i don't think he is fooling anybody. >> the white house says the bridge was chosen as an example of a needed infrastructure project that could ploy hundreds of count trucks workers. -- construction workers. now it started after an age any neighbor complained -- an angry neighbor complained of a dirt tie yard. it clearly shows the mayor is creating a fire hazard from not clearing the brush from her oakland views. >> this demonstrates how the enforcement is selective and not applied fairly throughout the city of oakland.

>> mayor responded to these don't complaints immediately and we responded a gardener outside the home. the mayor's daughter contacted him the very same night of the city council meeting. on the better part of your screen, dow jones industrial average up more than 300 points. all business news in just a moment. now we will give you up to the men traffic news as it looks relatively bullish except for a few spots. this is southbound 101 not very good traffic because of an accident still clearing. they are making progress getting it out of the lane but chp has not lifted that signal. still blocking the left three lanes. traffic is backed up from

rollsston which is good considering three lanes are blocked but i would use 280 instead. clearing up an injury accident on the saratoga exit it is closed because of a rollover and crews are working to free somebody who was trapped inside that vehicle. this is a look at fremont, that traffic looks good. bay bridge backed up for a 15 minute delay and slow in pittsburgh and in pockets and very crowded on highway 4 bay point as you make your way to cop cord. -- concord,. >> we have clear skies and this is a sign of things to come as far as a cooler pattern taking over. most of it is here coast and bay starting to work its way in getting a little help from a cold front. cool to warm to hot, some will

be in the 90s and others will be in the upper 60s. fog bank is starting to lift much cooler and not only tropical clouds coming up from southern california and sunday could have the first rain of the season. it will be cooling down for everyone by the time we get to sunday. morning hours have a lot of low clouds and fog and some of that has reduced visibility, but when it starts to lift it is more in the form of clouds. some very warm temperatures a loft and that's assure sign cooler weather is on the way. cooler coast and bay and that fog is really ramped up but a cooler pattern will take us into the weekend. a few low 60s and also up to parts of the north bay but when

you start to see vacaville fairfield and napa airport all showing a westerly breeze it has been calm and now it is showing a breeze which is not strong yet but leaning that way. the system responsible is right there in the pacific northwest. really heavy rain up towards seattle and vancouver but we are looking for a cooler pattern increase in the fog and also clouds in southern california which may play into our saturday forecast. today low clouds fog sun it will be cool by the beaches and this is our last full day of the summer. tomorrow morning equinox, 90s for some, 50s and 60s probably cooler over towards row day vallejo san jose 86, 8 red

wood city, 50s and 60s coast and bay, we will drop 20 degrees in 48 hours. with your weekend in view it will be cooler and lost clouds will be visiting by sunday. okay, 6:42 is the time that roaming satellite is now getting closer to earth what we now know about it landing closer to home. one day strike inspired more than 20,000 nurses to joan on the picket line. it will be foggy as we look at this last picture of the golden gate bridge and as you can see traffic is moving through the fog. n?

. police shot the man suspected of killing a woman found in a richmond restaurant tuesday night. vallejo residents who call 911, you could face a $200 fine. a lot of people simply hang up after calling emergency dispatchers and that has police

officers racing to emergencies that don't exist. they will have to try again to prevent a government shut down after next week after surprise defeat of a bill yesterday. democrats said tea party republicans voted against it. nurses are preparing to walk off the job for a one day strike. kraig debro is in oakland this morning to talk about what is behind the strike, here is more. >> reporter: it is complicated pam, you can see it is on the national healthcare union workers. this one day strike you heard so much about, 34 hospitals northern and central california started with this union. they work for keizer hospital and without a contract have not been able to get a deal which calls for the one day strike. after the strike nurses with both sutter and keizer hospitals decided they would

use this day to point out and highlight some of their own issues. nurses at keizer say they are protesting deeper cuts for healthcare and nurses are making it more expensive to brick their own kids for care. they are trying to stop sutter from closing hospitals in lower income neighborhoods. >> it is a working class neighborhood serves a lot of lower income patients and it would be shut entirely if it was not for nurses in a lower largely minority population in san francisco. >> reporter: now this strike is huge, we talked about it earlier, 34 hospitals, at least 21,000 cna nurses and a lot of them have hired temporary workers to come in and replace those nurses so patients should not have to worry about it.

they have also put off elective surgeries, they will not do them today maybe tomorrow so that will not be a problem. keizer sent an e-mail to their patients telling them what to expect just to alert them to what is coming. coming up on mornings on 2 we will have more from keizer hospital on these issues and what they are doing to deal with them. kraig debro, ktvu channel 2 news. the channel 2 website has a complete list of affected hospitals just look on our front page of www.ktvu.com. time now 6:48 facebook is expected to announce more changes to their site and that would include music and news websites. buttons like listen or read will allow users to share things they have read or heard with their friends. it comes after they found more changes yesterday. facebook has no choice, they

have to continue evolving with competition from sites like google plus, the company has to stay fresh. the problem is now to get them to stay on the sight longer. they will looking to where and went that satellite will fall to earth. most of the satellite is expected to burn of but 23 pieces are expected to crash land. nasa said the odds of somebody getting hit on earth is 1 in 3200. what are you guys watching? well we are watching the golden gate bridge and that's our photographer standing out there and most of the time we do send -- you know we sit here and he looks at the golden gate bridge and most of the time we can see the towers, we cannot so just to give you a reference

point normally we see southbound two lanes and northbound two lanes but we can't. it is foggy in san mateo and alameda counties so use caution. westbound bay bridge backed up for a 20 minute delay. again a crash on hawley southbound 101 and they have been making progress in opening the lanes but still heavy traffic in beaumont and red wood city. they have been cleared from the lanes but traffic is still an area to avoid, use 280 instead. southbound from haywood union city, let's go to steve. we have temperatures which will be much cooler and as pam pointed out same thing. temperatures will cool off still hanging on to a few 90s

inland. i was rehook dan to do it -- reluctant to do it, 80s for some like fremont san jose, san rafael napa, areas that did not have it yesterday so pam, dave with that in minds we will have a cooler pattern and that will take us into the weekend. fl1edl0ex first quarter earnings rose 22% and they posted earnings of $464 million and earning increased but fl1edl0ex is lowering its outlets as it predicts higher gas prices and only moderate growth. live to the big board dow jones industrial average up 373 points to 10751 down 3% as you can see nasdaq and s&p 500 also down 3% right now after the feds say we will be stuck with this slow economy for some

years. the united auto is shifting to ford after they failed to reach a new deal with chrysler. it is expected to ask for a better deal from ford because it didn't need the federal bailout. honoring two fallen bay area heros, a special plan by the san francisco fire department. arnold schwarzenegger, the new details they are expected to reveal about his private life. çñóoñoe+

. now 6:55 a judge is expected to set a trial date filed by victims of last year's deadly disaster. there are more than 300 plaintiffs but pg&e wants to consolidate followed by a mediation phase. san francisco fire department will pay tribute to two fallen firefighters, lieutenant vincent perez and anthony died battling a fire and their names will be added to a big list of men and woman who died in the line of duty.

the bakery caught fire and firefighters say electrical problems and lights over the oven may have started it but this morning the retail sign in the bakery will open pen and the bakery side still needs to be rebuilt. former governor arnold schwarzenegger is reportedly writing his auto biography. it will cover his life as a body builder movie star and even his recent break up with maria shriver. the title my unbelievable true story total recall. thank you pam and dave, traffic is busy as we approach the 7:00 hour, it is backed up for at least a 15 minute delay at the bay bridge toll plaza. interstate 880 traffic is moving along well and i was just reminded jets are playing and we'll see a lot of people coming up to the coliseum as

their home game is here, their first regular season home game. a look at westbound traffic coming up to bay point, if you are driving on the east shore it is slow, a crash on pin oil. low clouds in browns valley, fog is thick, temperatures will cool off, some areas holding on it 90s, this will be the last day 50s and 60s and 70s and we say goodbye to summer. mornings on 2 begins in just moments, here is a live look at nurses beginning to strike, we are out there on the picket line. accused of attacking a police officer, they reportedly used their truck as a weapon. stay right here with us.

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