same cause. it's patient care. that's the bottom line. >> reporter: you're looking at nurses on the picket line right now. but how are patients faring? in an hour, one man tells us how he's managed to deal with today's strike. he visits the hospital often because he deals with sickle cell anemia. grim economic news from around the world sent stocks plummeting today. prompting some to predict a double dip recession in the sate. the chances of slipping back into a recession are quote higher now than at any point in the recovery. in europe the new survey indicate add recession could be on the way there. and many factories may be slowing down in china. that bad news took its toll on wall street today.

>> the dow fell more than 500 points at one point today before coming back slightly and closing down 390 points. stocks are on their way to their worse weeks since october of 2008. here's a look at the final numbers, the dow off 391 points, the nasdaq dropping 82. meg whitman has a new job and it's a big one. ceo of hewlett packered. robert handa was able to hear her first remarks. >> reporter: insider are speculating whether hp would dump hep epitecker and today it happened. after hearing meg whitman, she certainly believes she's the right person for the job. silican valley got a chance to see meg whitman, meet, greet and charm people on tuesday when she came to make a

donation to schools. we listened in on the conference call today with creative strategies president as whitman said she was honored to move up from the hp board to the head of the company. one of her first goals is to connect with employees saying we may not keep everyone but i think we will keep the vast majority of people who want to believe we can restore hp to its proper position in silican valley and in technology. >> i think the hp rank in file will actually get behind her. she's a very good communicator. >> reporter: whitman plans to clear up confusion. she says we have to say what we're going to do, we have to mean it and we have to deliver the results. >> it's going to be delivering products that are innovative, that customers want. as a result customers will buy. >> reporter: they expect

withman will have a honey moon period. but the bottom line will always be profits. turning now to developing news, our news chopper 2 is right over uc berkeley. where you see here students protesting they're upset about tuition hikes they have taken over tolman hall. it's a building near the president's home. protest organizers say there's been at least one confrontation with the university police officer involving pepper spray. now what you see here actually started back around noon when hundreds of protesters gathered in spa plaza to protest those proposed tuition hikes. that could hike tuition as much as 15% over 4 years. students marched throughout campus. they entered the building. i understand there's two dozen people inside. as many as two dozen outside. uc police say one officer was actually panned in but the

protesters when they tried to go inside the doors. uc police say they have the situation under control. they continue to watch it. if and when they make a move or any developments happen we will bring that along to you. shane bauer and josh fattal are still in the middle east reconnecting with their families a day after they were released from prison. the two arrived in iman for a joyful reunion with their families. today shane bauer's brother-in- law said his wife was relieved to be rejoined with shane. she had not spoken to shane for two years, the entire time he was inprisoned. the iranian president blasted

the united states over the september 11 attacks. >> used mysterious september 11 incident as a pretext to attack afghanistan and iraq. >> moments ago the iranian president said it is not too late to fix tides with the united states. but he also blamed for the economic crisis. and that prompted a walk out by the u.s., france, germany and other countries. during a speech therapy session stow was able to say his full name and the names of his two children. stow asked to see his two children and told his sister that he loved her. the recent progress happened about a week after stow had fluid drained from his brain. still his doctor is cautiously

optimistic saying we are encouraged by bryan stow's continued neurological improvement and can report that he is beginning to talk again. yet, he still has serious injuries. it is with great sadness that we have to report tonight that one of our colleagues bob mackenzie died today. by every measure, he was one of the best. julie haener here tonight with a look at bob mackenzie's extraordinary career. >> reporter: bob began his career in 1977 and for more than 30 years, he delighted bay area viewers with his unique story telling. he retired three years ago. but his legacy lives on and his stories still inspire all of us. >> reporter: the ability to find the off beat and overlooked is what made bob mackenzie stand out from the rest. >> so this is the last of the

flea circuses. >> reporter: before landing his reporting job, bob was a dancer. >> i've always tried to specialize in feature stories. feature stories that aren't about what went wrong today. or not even anything that happened today, it's about things that are going on around us. >> reporter: he reported on stories that were often dismissed as too ordinary. >> there are at least three bodies down here. >> and some bone parts. >> what stays with me more than all are the characters i met. people who inspired me, people who did something with courage, with inspiration. and i learned from them. >> reporter: such as the story where bob mackenzie met a man who was building a monument to his faith.

>> the mountain is a culmination of 13 years of unseizing labor by this man, knight. he describes himself as a hobo. where he mixes the local clay with straw and local plant root to form his abode monument. >> i was going to stay one week and make a little eight foot one 13 years ago. people treated me good and i got happy. and boy that's when my happiness started 13 years ago. >> reporter: the award winning journalist also showed us he had a serious side. >> we had memorable times when we went to haiti in the middle of a civil war and people were shooting all around us. and people dropping down wounded in front of us. that was an adventure. not one i would care to repeat but certainly an experience that stays with me. >> reporter: as was this experience on top the high seas. >> traveling by a sailing ship is not luxury cruising at least not in the sense that it would be if you were on an ocean

liner. there are no shuffleboard game, there's no gambling night. what you get is something else that i can only call a feeling, standing a lost here looking into the new world the way columbus might have had. it's a feeling that i would not trade for all the shuffle games in the world. now the only problem is how do i get down from here. >> reporter: bob passed away this morning with his family at his side. he was 75 years old. while a lot of us will always remember he was a dear dear man. a lot of people didn't know he was a skeet shooter, an amateur magician and a skier. >> he was just such a great writer. i remember when my wife first moved out here and i said donna you have to see this guy. this guy is such a great reporter. he had done a report on the aircraft carrier. and i said watch this story on aircraft carriers. she said why i can't stand aircraft carriers. not only did she watch it, she

said that's so good, i have to see that again. that's what bob was like. he could make you interested on things that you were never interested in. >> i learned something from bob every single day. >> he took the ordinary and made it extraordinary. >> that's such a great quote. absolutely. >> he would find the interesting out of the most plain and simple. and straight shooter, he was the real deal. and we are just going to really miss him. >> we'll be back with more after this. [ cow mooing ]

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in captivity. >> reporter: jaycee dugard is not seeking damages. she has already filed a lawsuit against the state of california and received $20 million in that case. now a new one has been filed here in the court of san francisco. the claim, federal parol authorities failed dugard. pinning the blame on the federal government, a lawsuit filed today said fill yours by parol officers were outrageous and unexcusable. phillip garrido was on parol when he kidnapped dugard. federal parol officers weren't watching him close enough. dugard's attorneys write, had they simply performed their duties and obligations as required by federal law and internal policies, jaycee and her daughters would not have been forced to endure a life of

abuse. >> here is a guy that was allegedly under some federal supervision and the claim is there's a negligence failure to carry out the supervision they were supposed to carry out. >> reporter: while he was under the supervision, garrido tested positive for drugs and he sexually harassed coworkers. but the parol officers never did anything. >> reporter: and i called the u.s. attorney's office this afternoon to call them about the dugard lawsuit, they told me they have no comment at this point. in the meantime, dugard's attorney says any settlement money from this federal lawsuit will be going directly to the jaycee foundation. a foundation she created to help victims of traumatic events. we're live in san francisco,

alex sadvidge. in 1977, phillip garrido began serving a sentence for rape. in 1988, he was released on parol. in 1991, he kidnapped dugard. we have new information tonight about an attempted kidnapping that we first reported on monday evening. this afternoon police released this sketch who police say resembled a man who tried to grab a girl as she was leaving school. the girl was able to get away. police say the attacker was wearing an orange hat with the letter t. also what's interesting here, he has two stone piercings right on the left side of his neck. a follow up now to our exclusive report last night. on whether the mayor of oakland is getting special treatment when it comes to keeping her

home up to code. >> reporter: well, frank, just about 90 minutes ago inside city hall. also known as her second house major gene quan fired back at the man who told his story first to ktvu channel 2 news. his complaint that the mayor needs to clean up her yard. >> this house belongs to gene quan. i nominate her for the queen of residential blithe. >> reporter: he showed ktvu these pictures he says he snapped outside of major quan's home. pratt argues that the city of oakland selectively enforces legislation. >> i have not gotten a blithe concern, or i would have fixed

it. >> i'm the mayor of oakland. people like to take shots at me. i now know what plants will not survive after two years of campaigning. but it's a beautiful garden, i stand by my garden. >> reporter: while a couple of neighbors declined to talk about the mayor's house. edward abramson did. >> i hasn't notice to tell you the truth. it looks okay to me. >> reporter: she said it was a result of an ongoing dispute with his neighbor not in retaliation for his complaint about the appearance of quan's home. an appearance the mayor says she will clean up. >> if we're on compliance. if there's a stairwell we never use, i never go down and if it's broken, we'll get it fixed because you're right. the mayor of city has to be in compliance like everybody else. >> reporter: this afternoon we also spoke to oakland's

assistant fire chief about the mayor's house. his thoughts tonight at 6:00. tonight congress is working late to try to meet another government shut down deadline. hopes for a quick agreement on the bill collapsed last night. the house rejected the measure last night when lawmakers couldn't agree on how much to include for disaster relief. lawmakers said they would work all weekend if necessary to stop the gap funding bill. >> there's a concern of government shutdown. let's jet get this out here. this continuous resolution was designed to be a bipartisan bill. >> i'm cautiously optimistic that we're going to be able to be okay. we're fine, it's all up to the house. >> reporter: current government funding runs out next week. and with the failure of that disaster funding measure last night. the homeland security secretary says fema is running dangerously low on funds. janet napolitano says the nation's disaster aid account could be out of money by early

next week. she says unless congress acts, disaster relief may be delayed. a meeting is getting under way right now to discuss the impact from the upcoming america's cup. organizers are expected to talk on several topics. including how the competition is expected to help the economy. the america's cup is set for the summer of 2013. boy, temperatures are a lot lower today than they were yesterday. and that's exactly what our chief meteorologist bill martin told us to expect. >> definitely. especially right around the coast. a lot of fog as you noticed off to the west there. inland is still pretty darn high. you will get your 90s there. but the cooling trend has begun. today we have a lot of fog. there it is on the golden gate bridge and pushing through the area. tomorrow, boy first day of fall. to get into early tomorrow morning. the sun is sub solar point is

right at the equator. the sun is directly over the equator. you get equal days, equal nights, the equinox. equal. how do we know it's hot inland? look at the tower. the fog is just below it. so that means the inversion is still on top. it's not making it to concord. it's not making it to antioch. it's making it to albany and berkeley. so temperatures there certainly cool. but when you get out past the east bay hills and try to get into santa rosa you're not getting the massive cooling just yesterday. that fog is going to get deeper and deeper and deeper into the bay and the cooling will be more and more as we go into the weekend sunday. low visibilities right in the great highway. areas of fog, dense at times i mean i've had reports of

visibilities down to a 1/4- mile. that's not a lot working your way north. it slows you down. there's that 49 in santa rosa. days are getting shorter, right. equinox is tomorrow, basically. and we're headed to the winter solstice. we're looking for some cool overnight lows. temperatures are coming down as we head from san francisco from today into tomorrow we're back down into the mid-60s. temperatures dropping down even further so i'll be back here. we'll look specifically at your temperature forecast for your city and we're going to look at the five day forecast with your weekend in view, i'll see you back here. major changes. what face book told its users

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surveillance video is at the heart of a debate involving a nummi bus that ran over a bike rider's arm. >> we'll get to that story in just a moment. we continue to follow developing news on the cal campus. our news chopper 2 is live over a building it's tolman hall at the berkeley campus where students have held themselves inside and they've effectively taken over the building. you see their banners out of

the buildings. there is a statement we have heard up from uc police. they stay one of the officers was pinned in by protesters when they were attempting to close doors. he then used pepper spray to get himself out of that situation. police say they have the situation under control, they are watching and waiting. they haven't taken any action in the past 20 minutes that we've been able to see. but we will stay on top of this and so you know the protesters inside say that they are demanding university accessible and free education. they're still hold up in tollman hall. we'll stay on top of this situation and bring you more details when we get them. back to that nummi accident where a bus ran over a man's arm. the question here, who is at fault. what the bike rider's attorney says needs to happen or else he may file a lawsuit. >> reporter: nummi says it's

one of the more unusual accidents. it was caught on tape by a security camera outside of this strip club. now the victim's attorney is eyeing a possible lawsuit against the city. it happened last wednesday at 6:00 p.m. on broadway avenue near columbus avenue in san francisco's north beach. lela brenner was biking home from her office. >> the bicyclist was attempting to maneuver around a double parked vehicle. the bicyclists did so by going into the third lane which was already occupied by a nummi bus. >> reporter: brenner was recorded bumping into the bus and falling on to the street. the bus driver went on. >> he did not know that he had struck someone. and that was clear when we talked to him. >> reporter: police say the investigators did not talk to the driver and say the

surveillance video showed brenner was at fault for making an unsafe lane change. >> the charges will likely be paid to fix her arm. >> if i am not provided the video or given the good reason in that video, yes i'm going to file a lawsuit for what i believe was an improper parking of a vehicle then a bus driver who aggressively tried to pass a bicyclists. >> reporter: managers at the roaring 20s say they no longer have the original video. police refused to give us a copy. they are calling it an ongoing investigation. a police stand off in san leandro ended early this

morning with police shooting the suspect. 30-year-old jensie romero's body was found inside the bathroom where she worked. a tip led them to this home to question her ex-boyfriend rafael serrate. 15 hours later, officers shot at serrate because they thought he was brandishing a weapon, which turned out to be a bb gun. hayward police are looking for the person who shot and killed a 36-year-old man tuesday evening at the la quinta. police say the victim james lewis parkon was hit in the upper torso. right now they're trying to figure out who shot him and why. why they haven't yet determined a motive. investigators say they do not believe that the shooting was random. facebook has major changes

in store for your digital life. >> reporter: today at facebook's annual fa conference, zuckerberg talked about changes. >> time line is the story of your life. and it has three pieces. all your stories, all your apps, and a new way to express who you are. >> reporter: the time line will be similar to an online scrapbook listing every moment of your life you care to share. from pictures to important dates. users will be able to add music, maps of where they've been and other content before a crowd of 2,000, zuckerberg also road out new partnerships with new outlets. facebook added the news feed. it tells you what your friends are doing leaving the bigger

part of the space for more important news. the bigger part is about to get a change. you will now be able to add a bigger cover photo. it'll give a person to look at your page a get a better idea of who you are. >> what better to give people a look at who you are by putting a large picture on your front page. >> reporter: the belief to keep things going, changes like these are inevitable. a group that opposes same- sex marriage has selected a new leader. the national organization for marriage has opposed same-sex marriage in a number of states. it's new chairman would be john eastman. he is a law professor and a former dean at chapman university law school in orange county. east man replaces national organization for marriage founder, gallagher who is taking time to write a book

about the fight against same- sex marriage. -- former supervisor candidates george davis says he wants people to know it's okay and not against the law to be nude in san francisco. it's raising some eyebrows and prompting some federal investigation. they're tiny and potentially dangerous. but one common way to get rid of bedbugs could be more harmful than the pest itself.

the board of director s for the golden gate transit system is expected to meet tomorrow. the budget item includes 90 20u dollars for the mod el -- $90,000 for the modems that will allow passengers to ago says the internet for free. -- passengers to access the internet for free. an investigative reporter says they appear to have been

etched on the plane with a chemical context. >> it does raise disturbing questions. because anybody who has the ability to write on an airplane and can get that close to do it also has the ability to do other things to that aircraft. >> reporter: southwest itself hasn't said much publicly about the vandalism but says it does not pose a security threat. using insecticides to get rid of bedbugs may be worse than the pests themselves. the centers for disease control sited a bedbug problem in seven states. they found at least one person died from using insecticide and that at least 80 other people got sick. most of the people miss used the chemical. a majority of the cases happened in new york city. toys r' us plans to hire less temporary workers. that's because it plans to open

fewer of its pop up stores that appear for the christmas season then close when it's over. young people are delaying having children and an increasing number are deciding not to have any at all. births declined by 6% last year even though the number of women in the study group increased by 1 million. the author of the study says it could lead to a loss of babies that won't be replaced something not seen since the great depression. a psychologists says research suggests children who don't get enough play time could possibly developmental health issues. when children play without being closely monitored by their parents they learn to solve problems on their own. fewer children in recent generations are playing on their own and he says that might be why there's an up tick

with children with narcissit behavior. back here in 10 minute, we have that fog forecast and it does include a big big cool down. i'll show you which cities cool the most for friday. we're on the scene of a house fire in vallejo, what may surprise you is who started it and why it might be good for the city. surfers unite to bring back

we continue to follow developing news at uc berkeley. two dozen students are inside the building some are in the

lobby, some are in classrooms. you can see many have hung banners out of tollman hall. those students are inside the building they say they are reclaiming their campus. they are calling for what they are describing as a halt to the destruction of public schools. and one of their demands is that they say they want education to be accessible and free. we actually got a statement from the protesters they sort of wadded it up and threw it to one of our crews. jana katsuyama is on the ground covering the story as news chopper 2 is ahead. the protesters are calling for lower fees, a free education, according to their statement for california students at uc campuses. berkeley police are monitoring the situation. they say that one officer had to use pepper spray against a group of students trying to block access to tollman hall. we will continue to monitor this situation. as soon as we get more

information, like we just toáld told you about the demands. we will bring it to you. a man is continuing to get attention all because of what he did on the x-factor. jana katsuyama is live where she met the young star. >> reporter: frank, we're here in front of the blue lagoon. chris rene told me he's performed here many times but the world didn't know him until last night. >> my name is chris rene, i'm 28 years old. and my job is to haul trash. >> reporter: the nation met chris rene he was accessed on the x-factor. he blew the judges away. the judges were grooving at his audition. and the toughest job told him he was a star. >> seeing the judges and the reactions to my performance,

was beyond amazing. let me tell you. it was wild. >> reporter: rene is still reeling from the auditions that were taped earlier this year. he's been performing since he was 12 years old. he struggled with addition but is now clean and sober. >> for me to rise up and stand up and represent is like, i feel like i've been chosen to do this. so, i just love it and i'm so proud to be a representative of santa cruz california. >> reporter: this former high school teacher watched his audition with tears in her eyes. she remembers him well. >> extraordinary guy. we all knew him. if he was in your classroom you remember him well. he is extremely talented. whenever you see him, he gives you a cd. >> i love santa cruz so much. i feel like yeah, santa cruz baby we're here. we've been here for a long time and there's so much hidden talent here. >> reporter: rene advanced to the boot camp for singer in l.

a. that episode airs on september 26. he is not allowed to tell us what happened after that. janine de la vega. and you will want to watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. to see who folks will be talking about tomorrow. another two hours of try outs on the new hit show, watch the x-factor, 8:00 tonight right here on channel 2. a report out tonight released -- they say some of the samples used in the research were contaminated. chronic fatigue syndrome causes overwhelming fatigue for many. the only over-the-counter asthma inhaler will no longer

be sold after december 3rd. vallejo firefighters were busy training a new group of recruits. also she pleaded no contest today to vehicle manslaughter for the car crash that killed a toddler walking in a roner park crosswalk with her mother. why the victim's father is not happy with the expected punishment. these stories and more coming up in 10 minutes. another nice day but it cooled down a bit. >> more fog out there. live storm tracker 2 shows that fog and where it is right now. you see it right out there in the avenuing of san francisco at the golden gate bridge. tomorrow morning it'll be in a lot of the bay neighborhoods. these were the highs from today. not much cooler inland. a little bit. livermore yesterday was 100. so 2 degrees cooler. look at the bay and the coast. no 80s, or a few 80s but mostly

70s and 80s. you get the picture. as we go into tomorrow. cooler. we talked about it all week. that cooling trend is under way right now. the clouds are forming up at the coast by tomorrow we're going to be another three to 6 degrees cooler than we were today. as we head toward the weekend we will drop another five or 6 degrees there. cooling into sunday. tomorrow's fog footprint looks like that. not a huge one. but there's a good on shore push. so you're going to get some breezes out at the gate and you're going to get this nice footprint out at the bay. there's the push up in davis but not for us. tomorrow the heat stays in the valley. the on shore flow increases. this low pressure system i've been tracking kind of drops in. look at that, that's our first real extra tropical weather system of the year. that's the real deal. and it could bring a chance of a sprinkle to the north bay, everyone coastal parts of san francisco on sunday. it'll be a light deal. the models are flip-flopping back and forth.

this system is getting close. it'll be a mechanism for cooling and possibly a mechanism for a few sprinkles on sunday. just south of here, down toward the padres forest and big sur, we're looking for a thundershower. and there's a weather watch there. we bring you this because it's close to the area. if one of these storms were to break off and drift north we would be in some issues. we're going to watch that closely. the computer model does this. the áf not a big deal. but it's there nonetheless. your forecast highs tomorrow, you're going for 91 in fairfield. a five day forecast with your weekend in view. talk about it all week, but we have been trending down. and we continue to more rapidly as we head into saturday and sunday. but definitely a cooling period. we'll watch the chance of thunderstorms on friday. and maybe a chance of sprinkles on sunday. we'll update all of that. there will be no more last

meal requests for inmates facing execution in texas after a huge meal by bruard. from now on the condemned will get the same meal as other inmates. i got out of bed one morning july 7, 2008 and could not walk. find out what she believes caused her debilitating illness and her warning to anyone who's had some dental work.

some tearful testimony in san francisco today from a woman recovering from multiple sclorosis. she believes she was suffering from the condition because of leaking medication from her dentures. stacy case told her story today at a town hall meeting. the fda has convened a scientific panel to reconvene the safety of silver fillings. casey is a television reporter from nashville tennessee and

had some old silver fillings replaced two years ago. she says she developed terrible headaches and was diagnosed with multiple scrlorosi. >> i know now that i and millions of americans are predisposed and these mercury fillings are the reason. >> kay said she had the fillings removed and is now in remission from m. s. this is the fda's sixth town hall meeting on amalgon and mercury. they are listening to people from across the country before deciding to ban those silver fillings. a driver texting behind the wheels when she struck and killed a 2-year-old faces the judge tonight. and we continue to follow this protest at uc berkeley against rising tuition fees.

we will have an update on the student occupation of tollman hall in just 90 seconds.

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way. but our life hasn't. a young driver pleads no contest to the charge of killing a 2-year-old girl in a crosswalk in roner park. good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. there will be no trial for that college student from the north bay who was behind the wheel when that 2-year-old girl was killed. rob roth is in roner park with what the judge may do as a result that is upsetting the victim's parents. rob-- >> reporter: frank, this afternoon we spoke with the father of a toddler who was killed in this crosswalk nine months ago. he told us that he's not happy with what he heard in court today. inside sonoma county superior court today, dunaway pleaded no contest to vehicle manslaughter in the death of 2-year-old