of the weight. the fire is not at the surface. it's most likely started deep down into this pile of debris. as far as fire condition, the high humidity, the winds are in right direction but blowing that plume of smoke which we are not sure wait is, it's blowing it west and northwest and sending it down down towards lake merit and spreading rapidly but the wind do help because it does diffuse the smoke plume. we do smell it here. i think you smell it. >> yes, definitely. we both stuck our head back and we can smell it here in jack london. after that happened, managers from the bay area air quantity management district came out and took samples. in that case, turned out there was nothing toxic in the air as a result of burning. this is very early on in this fire. the fire is not yet out and we're going to stay on top of the story and bring you more details as we get them.

this is happening at schnitzer steel. we'll stay on top and bring you new details as we get them. a gas leak force the evacuation of a pleasant hill neighborhood this afternoon. pg&e tells us an excavator at roof and viking hit a three- inch gas line this afternoon. it happened very close to three schools. the valley view middle school and college park high school. about 30 minutes ago, pg&e crews were able to cap the gas leak but you can see there all of the people who were trying to evacuate the area. the evacuation order has now been lifted. ktvu's jade hernandez is live on the scene with details. first off, we are live at ruth and viking drive. we can show you, frank, just where this leak happened. it's down the road and across the bridge. we can also show you right now pg&e crews working at this hour. that line has been capped but, of course, pg&e still out here. now, police told us that we

arrived at the pipe leaking had been capped and a lieutenant says that residents were being allowed back in the neighborhood. i want you to take a look at news chopper 2 video. the leak affected three nearby schools. we spoke to one mother whose son plays football at the school. she received a call. her son tried to assure her everything was under control and that's just what pleasant hill police told husband we arrived as well. a pleasant hill police say that subcontractors working for pg&e pierced a gas pipe. that leak began around 2:25 just as school was letting out. some time after 3:00, pg&e capped the line. >> my son just called.  he told me that the gas main is leaked and everybody is out and everything is under control. >> there was thought of doing

shelter in place, but because of the wind and there could have been problems so on the side of caution, they decided to evacuate everybody. >> reporter: p g e workers told me that a spokesperson from the utility should be out here very soon. they're going to explain the size of this leak and the size of the pipe that had the leak earlier this afternoon. reporting live, jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. and we will continue our coverage on our website for more information, can you go to ktvu.com to get the latest pictures into the channel 2 newsroom. well, we have more breaking news. we may have felt it. we just had a 3.3 earthquake here in the bay area centered about two miles southeast of soak land. it hit at 4:47, just about 15 minutes ago. some of us here in the newsroom felt it. according to earthquake classification, a 3.3 is considered a minor quake and it's unlikely there are injuries or damage but we are working to get more information as we do, we will bring it to

you. >> san francisco fire crews used car carbon dioxide gas to put out a manhole fire. the spokesman said that service to most of those affected was back on in about 40 minutes. >> we are getting a generator down here. we're going to get the last 282 customers on to a generator and while we spoke to investigate exactly what happened here. >> there is no word on what started the fire or how long that generator may be needed row main lettuce is being recalled here because it may be contaminated with listeria. ktvu has more on what is covered by the recall. >> reporter: the at the same timed produce was processed at the plant behind me.

the produce is going all over the nation. today, they recalled all the bags voluntarily after one bag was found contaminated with listeria. at san juan. >> the f.d.a. called us and asked us what we were going to do. we said we were going to recall this problem. >> the owner of this farm is recalling roughly 2300 cases of chopped lettuce. extended safety measures are in place. >> we are testing products, being audited all the time. we are testing it at our plant and, you know, we are sanitizing every day. >> reporter: the recall involves true leaf farms chopped row main lettuce with the used by date of september 29th and box code of b did 56.

the product was shipped from san juan bautista and has gone to two other states, including washington and oregon and idaho but not california. >> we hate to hear about any potential food-borne illness but the sample is designed to detect any possible contamination. >> reporter: one sample tested position at this, the company spring mix tested negative. the company says that it actually did a test here on the same day that that lettuce was processed. we'll have more on what they found coming up at 6:00. reporting live at san jan bautista, maureen naylor. now, federal authorities are still working to stem the tide of the kawntd how much listeria. centers for disease control says they expect the numbers to

rise in the coming weeks. the cantaloupes came from a farm in colorado. more on the information on the listeria outbreak and how to assess the latest federal health warning, visit ktvu.com and scroll down to the right now section. ktvu has learned from law enforcement sources that officers exchanged gunfire with a fugitive murder suspect aaron basler today. basler is wanted in connection with the death of a fort bragg city councilman and another man. sources tell us they do not know if the suspect was hit and they tell us that all law enforcement officers are okay. authorities in mendocino county plan to hold a news conference on this subject at 8:00 tonight. we do have a crew on the way to fort bragg right now. we'll have a full report for you on the 10:00 news. we learned that another bay area soldier died today in

afghanistan. guarantee fant was only 21 years old. ken pritchett has stories that the family shared with him. >> reporter: his family says that his goal, one that he a i cheered was to serve his country. small american flags circle the base of a tree tied with a yellow ribbon. this is the yard of the fant family in american canyon. it was in this home where army specialist garrett fant grew up but he was destined to leave and live an army life. so says his grandfather robert. >> i would catch him standing in front of the mirror saluting, practicing all he had to do when he got in. he was dedicated to it. >> reporter: robert and guarantee's uncle anthony invited us into their home. they want people to know about specialist fant and his service. >> he did what he wanted to dorks you know. he wept and fought for this country. as far as an uncle goes, i'm really proud of him >> reporter: the army says that

fant died from injuries from and improvised explosive device while on a patrol in afghanistan. he served with the first infantry division. this was his first deployment. >> i was proud of him going. the only thing i didn't like, the war going on. i was glad he was able to serve >> reporter: fant graduated from valley oak high school in napa. when asked about his child hood, the family said they wanted to focus on his time. >> the family just returned from delaware where the army held a service as his remains returned home. at american canyon, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. more details now on the increasing toll from operation enduring freedom in afghanistan. the pentagon reports that an even 1400 troops have been killed in action. 276 have died in so-called

nonhostile circumstances. 14,239 troops have been wounded the fbi is now involved in the search for a gang of costumed armed robbers that police believe have been operating in contra costa county. the most recent was at a food mac store in antioch. a group men wearing masks stormed into the store and one of them fired a shot into the ceiling on the way out. 90 minutes later, gunmen hit a mini mart in vallejo. this comes after a trio of gunmen stormed into a 7-eleven in fort hill. the robber fired a shot a customer but did not hit him. and police are looking into the killing of the president of the san jose chapter of the

hells angels. police issued an arrest warrant for the man who is the president of the rival gang viagos. police say that he went into the building and fired four shots in the back. in spanish, gawd guadeloupe zamora says that she wants to make sure that justice is served. she was hit by a teener driver a calling. coming up at 6:00, we'll tell you why she does not think that police are taking her complaints seriously. and unemployment numbers down 36,000, the first time it was below 400,000. amountists say it might semen couraging but they need to see more decline. the nation's unemployment rate is still at 9.1%.

rates for benchmark mortgages hit all-time low. the 30-year fixed is now at 4.01%. it fell .08% this week putting it at the lowest level since it began record keeping back in 1971. it was an up and down day on wall street. the dow jones industrial average stage add lit 200 point rally to get back in the day and ended up closing up 143 point. the nasdaq finished the day down 10. some students claim their teacher told them not to say bless you after someone sneezed. other students say that's not the full story. the details coming up. big, big changes coming our way. they started today with a cooldown but they're going to end up with some rain. i'll have the five-day forecast with your weekend in view back here in about 10 minutes. ok, kids, our cable will let us record one more show.

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more now on the breaking news, a fire burke in west oakland. you are looking live here from news chopper 2 at the schnitzer steel metal shredding facility. fire broke out in the neighborhood of an hour or so ago. we do have some new information. so far, no evacuations have been ordered. there is no shelter in place and judging from the pictures we have been monitoring now for some time it appears that firefighters here are making some progress. if you are not familiar with the schnitz he will steel shredding company, it is in west oakland right next to the port of oakland and right next to the oakland estuary. we're going to keep news chopper 2 over head. we have a reporter on the scene gathering information and we will hear from that reporter coming up at 5:30. there is a classroom controversy brewing over saying bless you after someone sneezes. a teacher was well within his rights to tell students to stop

saying it. >> reporter: many students at the school came to the teacher's defense saying he didn't have a problem with some saying bless you but the number of times the student was saying it. therm purposely doing it. michelea davis says she was in the health class when her teacher threatened to take away points from students who said bless you. she said that the student were punt upsly disrunning the class. you can say bless you, one person. that's why he took off a few points for that one person. >> that thing has been blown out of proportion. i think it comes down to classroom discipline. and the kids not listening. >> that i moab the case. cucovich did not return our call for an interview. the teacher believe that the students were dramatically sneezing and responding in dramatic fashion, bless you. >> there is a lot of sneezing going on and saying bless you, bless you, bless you, bless

you, during class. i understand this can be disrupting. >> some sued say that he is a great teacher and is getting a bad rap. they say all he was doing was trying to keep the class on task. one parent said she is fine but she thinks that the action is too far. >> i know something like that, 20 or 30 minutes but not taking points. >> district is investigating the impact of the disruption and grading policy. as many a blessing by one individual to another individual is a welcome acknowledgment of a social norm. hopefully, it is not abused. a coalition of student advocacy group is hoping to stage a textbook rebellion at uc berkeley and other campuses. calipers brought two overstaff mascots.

the one in the black is a free textbook while the other is the rebel just. the average student spends more than $1100 per year on textbooks. >> students are really burdened with the cost of tuition. by making textbook cheaper, students can feel an immediate impact on college afford. >> the group is gathering signatures to lobby colleges to put textbooks online for tuesday to access for free. san jose officials closed alan rock park because of a fire maz art. with temperatures in the nineties and humidity in the teens, they decided it was too dangerous to let people in the 700-acre park in san jose. they have not yet said if that park will be open tomorrow. >> that fire at the metal recycling plant, you know, we have been watching that picture and it's amazing how much changed in the just the past 15 minutes. we have been seeing, obviously this thing is beginning to come down. you are seeing a lot less smoke. you are seeing it more feverishly. we are starting to see the wind

condition. a lot less smoke right here. we do smell it here at the station. you guys can smell it, right? you feel a little bit in your eyes. no burning, right? >> the smell is real acrid. >> you do notice the smell. and they are pulling back here to show how hard they are working. i have a live reading here right here at the tip of alameda at the old naval air station. right here in this area, winds are blowing west at about 18. what's that getting you is a wind just like this. that smoke plume is heading off this way off towards lake merit, out into this area and i imagine all this area that i circle and beyond a little pit as well, you are smelling some of this smoke. it's -- as frank reported earlier, officials are not concerned with what's being released from here. it does not appear that there appears to be a shelter in place kind of thing. we know that a lot of you folks

are smelling it. the fire that we are breathing is not a problem, just something that you are noticing, the smell more than anything. the high is cooler. the west wind brought in the fog big time and that fog pushed into the independent land valley. here is how it pushed. look at the cool moist air. it takes the hot air and moves this way. the red was all the way around the area. this cool moist push of air has reduced the fire danger, giving us better air quality. forget the fire at this point. we had a spare the air day yesterday. mechanism for cooling is this little sill right here. it takes marine air. we have a bunch of activity out in the patches right now. big changes coming to the bay area. we're going to talk about that back here at 54:00, a look at the city and the five-day

forecast which definitely got some rain in it. we'll see you back in here. >> an insider takes the stand. one of michael jackson's bodyguard testifies about what jackson's doctor asked him to do on the way that michael jackson died. and a hostage hoax in the nation's capitol. why some thought that lawmakers were holding some children hostage.

rolly wood rumor mills are fueled by rumors of problems in the mawrm between ashton kutcher and demi moore. ashton kutcher and moore spent the anniversary dep separately. a bodyguard who called 911 the day that michael jackson died testified today. he described the scene witnessed by the young children. >> i was reaching for my phone in my pocket. as i was doing, that prince and paris came behind me. paris screamed out, daddy. >> reporter: ed abouty guard alberto alvarez testified in the involuntary manslaughter trial of jackson's physician, dr. can rad murray. when his children became upset, he ushered them out of the room and returned to find out what happened to the singer: i asked dr. conrad murray what happened? he said he had a reaction. he had a bad reaction.

>> murray is accused of giving jackson a lethal dose of a powerful anesthesia. bodyguard backed up the claim that the doctor delayed calling 911. he told him that the doctor tried to get him to grab some vials. >> he grabbed a handful of vials and say, here, put these in a bag. >> the defense noted that alvarez took two months before giving details to police. >> i believe that dr. conrad murray had the best intentions for michael jackson. i didn't believe his motive. >> the defense claims that dr. murray did nothing wrong claiming that the sippinger gave himself that lethal dose an article in the onion said that a group of lawmakers

had taken a group of children hostage if they did not get $12 trillion. in truth, congress is in recess. no one was in the capitol. emotions were intense. a six-year-old child was hit and killed. hear from the mother on how she is coping on what kind of legal action she may take. solyndra and solar power, what happened here may change the perception of clean energy. and continuing coverage of a fire that is burning right now in west oakland not far from the port of oakland. reporters on the scene. we'll hear from her momentarily.

raw emotions from a distraught mother whose six- year-old daughter was hit and killed right in front of her. >> we'll get to that story in a moment first, we continue with breaking news. that fire that is burning in the schnitzer steel company in oakland. ktvu amber lee is on the scene. we are at 1101 embarcadero where schnitzer steel is located. firefighters are on the scene. we can see them spraying water on the debris pile. you can see a crane on the edge of your screen. from news chopper 2, we can see the massive evident to put this fire out with plenty of water. i just got off the phone with the fire battalion chief and he is telling us that what is burning is scrap metal there is

no shelter in place at this point, no other advisory. we see plenty of cranes working to separate the scrap metal to get to the fire. to give you another perspective, another fire burned here two and a half years ago. this ace shredding facility for vehicle, appliances and other items. and that fire, two and a half years ago, the cause was spontaneous combustion. we don't know at this point ways causing this. incident commanders are telling us he is too busy to give us a lot of details. that is what we know. we can see a lot of cars parked out here. we do not see a lot of people out here. we will, can, bring that to you when we have more. reporting live in west oakland, amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. for the first time, we are hearing from a mother whose child was killed while crossing the street. ktvu's robert handa is live in palo alto where that mother is vowing justice for her

daughter. >> reporter: emotions are growing. the girl's mother is talking to her about anger, sadness and how she plans to seek her own justice. family and friends of the samora family planned to gather this saturday to celebrate her birthday. she was walking to school with her family yesterday morning when she was hit in the crosswalk at bay street and gloria way. her mother, guadalupe with a friend translating said that she could not have made it without the emotional support. >> i'm very sad. i'm very happy with all the support. i'm thankful for everybody helping me in my hard time i really appreciate everybody coming out to me to reach me and may god bless everybody. >> reporter: but guadalupe is also angry about what happened. the drive, 49-year-old parker, a local teacher never slowed

down. and she is upset that police released her so quickly. in her opinion, the case is not being taken seriously enough because, in her words, she is mexican and does not speak english. she has hired a lawyer and plans to sue the city if, as she puts it, there is no justice. >> i want there to be justice because that was my daughter and i don't want this to happen to any other family. she is in a better place, but i would love to justice because i was a little -- she was a little girl. she was a minor. she didn't believe that. >> reporter: we were not able to reach felicia white parker. the district tells us that she is on leave. the chief has been conducting a meeting about the case and unavailable to comment. robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news we continue our coverage of the story for you on our website. log on to ktvu.com to get information on how to donate to a bank account for the funeral expenses. you will find it there on web link. san francisco police today

announced the arrest of a 15- year-old boy in connection with the shooting death of a restaurant employee. 22-year-old gaspar bushtak was shot to death behind the hogs restaurant. investigators say it's likely that the shooter mistook him for a rival gang member. the suspect was already in juvenile custody on an unrelated case and has now been booked on charges including homicide. san francisco district attorney george gascon today led a summit on stalking. the event was a training for police officers, child advocates. the summit also focuses on developing threats to children. >> they have been victim of cyber stalking. that's a growing problem and that's a problem that we need to come together as a communities and figure out a better way to deal with. >> reporter: four million americans are the victim of stalking every year, he says.

this comes right before domestic violence month. the scandal of solyndra has drawn a lot of criticism to the obama administration. rob roth has visited another solar power industry. >> reporter: well, many members of congress says that's a symptom of the solar industry but some are saying not so. this is a solar panel installed for free and charges customers for the power. the scandal has not darkened the public's perception of solar. weaver done some polling results for consumers and consumers are still very much in favor of solar power. much of this discourse, i think, is working itself out in washington but we have not seen it >> reporter: people we spoke with say that solyndra has not put a dent on the concept of solar energy.

>> that would not stop me but i would make my research. >> that's different if i was going to get solar from my home. >> the cost of solar energy has dropped dramatically, it's still cheaper for the vast majority to use their power company. >> there is real economic advantages to coal and natural gas if we are not going to count the environmental damage they do. >> reporter: they predict that solyndra will barely be a speed bump in the growth of the industry. when netscape didn't make it, nobody said that the internet is over. i any that's really an apt metaphor with what's going on with solyndra and the solar industry. >> reporter: within 10 to 15 years, she predicts that solar industry will be to power what cell phone is to land line. the california supreme court has rejected effort by activists to stop what they see

as weak laws. the so-called cap and trade program is part of california's land mark climate control bill. we have breaking news now. there is a disruption in b.a.r.t. service. we are told that b.a.r.t. is having some major delays because of a power outage that amend in west oakland. as of 5:15, trains were being delayed more than 15 minutes because of an outage that began at 4:16 this afternoon. thinks a live picture of the b.a.r.t. station. can you see one train there and passengers getting off. we are told that the delays are affecting trains through the west oakland station. one train here is taking off but we are still going to have to keep an even acon what's happening here. going into the city here is bad. keep in behind, west oakland, that's the last stop when you are going from the east way to the trans bay tube and on to san francisco. west oakland is the busiest b.a.r.t. station in the entire system.

tens of thousands of people are relying on b.a.r.t. right now to get to where they need to go. our news chopper 2 is going to stay over the scene. we are seeing some trains coming in and out. again, the station is not shut down. there are delay, however, delays that are impacting b.a.r.t. riders and that will afact people that are waiting to see them at home for picking them up at the station. we'll bring the information to you as soon as we get them. pushing for a jobs bill. name si pelosi visits a landmark san francisco business hoping to brew up support for the president's jobs proposal and new figures came out on how many people are now smoking cigarettes. so i got this new job last week, but their health insurance

doesn't cover my kid's pediatrician. which is not cool. she was so fantastic. she had this sock puppet that she would use to explain exactly what she was doing and why she was doing it. i just wish there was someone to explain to me how i'm going to find another doctor like that. [ male announcer ] we know a good doctor is hard to find. we have some of the largest networks in california so you can choose one that's right for you. blue shield.

house minority leader nancy pelosi dropped in on a long time san francisco beer brewery today. she took a tour of eckerstein brewery and posed for some photos. pelosi also pushed president obama's americans job act and his deficit reduction proposal. >> what the president is proposing will save about $700 billion. that may not sound like a lot of money to the republicans but that's an enormous amount of money. >> pelosi asked business owners how congress can help them grow and hire more workers.

>> you probably don't need 140 characters to convince you this story is true. researchers studied tweeter messages from 8.3 million people from different countries and say that people seem to wake up in a better mood on the weekends. there seemed to be a mid day dip in mood reflectd in people's tweet. the study appears in the journal science. new federal figures show that fewer people than ever are smoking these days. the centers for disease control reports that last year, only 10% of adult use cigarette comparing to 40% 20 years ago. those who smokeless are those living lowe the poft line and with less education. researchers combined result of 14 international studies and

found diabetic patients with 38% more likely to have colon cancer than those who were diabetes free. doctors say that people with diabetes tends to have higher levels of hormones that can cause cell, including cancer cells to go and spread. the findings were published in the american journal of gastroenterologist. a scientist is publishing the first video of a fish using a tool. the fish swims wide a disance over a large rock where the fish repeat thely bashes the clam to break open it shell. this shows that the fish has the ability to think ahead and figure out how to get food that's hidden, in this case, by a shell a big scare on a transit bus as someone shots at the bus while passengers were on board and big change in your bay area weather forecast. they are starting right now with this fog. they're going to continue into

the weekend. the five-day forecast. we look right now where we can see some showers.

police say it may have been someone trying to play a prank but it sure caused a scare on an a c transit because. tara moriarty tells us what happened and how it could have been a lot more serious. half a dozen on passengers aboard this bus heard something strike a window. >> we believe that a pellet gun was used to shoot at the window. >> the plex glass shattered but

stayed intact. luckily, no one was hurt. the shooting goes beyond vandalism. >> a person can swerve, cause an accident. >> the incident happened off of san pablo avenue near 59th street. a sheriff did he have at this said that the stuck could have hidden behind a bush like this one or behind a door which but it was too dark for people to see. the drive kept going for 14 blocks because operators are trained to keep moving until they feel it save enough to pull over. >> there is a certain segment of the population that thinks that they throw rock or shoot pellet guns at buses, that's funny, that's a sprang but it's not. it can have very serious and even deadly consequences >> deputies are now reviewing surveillance video from nearby stores and the bus. all passengers were transferred to another bus. the president of the

university of new hampshire has overturned a decision to stop selling the so-called energy drinks on campus. unh officials announced the ban on monday. they said it was an effort to sell healthy things. the president of the university put the plan on hold and then revoked it. and the shutdown is part of a renovation in construction project in the park's playground. julie is in the newsroom now for some of the stories that we are working on. >> demonstrators take aim at big banks in san francisco's financial district. new at 6:00, what these protesters want to see happen from wall street to montgomery street. and it's all about crowd

control in golden gate. how organizers plan to keep the crowds from getting out of control >> and we are monitoring several developing stories, updates on that gas leak in pleasant hills and the scrap metal fire in oakland coming up in just about ten minutes florida is a says that infra red telescope data means that there is less asteroids than previously thought. they discovered some that are less than a kilometer. a european telecope captured the best image yet of a far away scar that scientists are calling the fried egg neck la. take a look at that. the fried egg nepula is 13,000 light years away from earth and the diameter is about 12,000 times greater than that of our own isn't and 500,000 times brighter. this next story is coming

from a file that may be just when you thought it was safe to get back in the quarter. san luis obispo are taking down signs after they were posted. a 12-shark tooth was sighted near the beach. big dropoff today and some cities dropped off 15 degrees or more. the big changes have begun. there is a live camera shot. you can see kind of the cob webs blowing into there. there is san francisco. it's behind that fog bank. this is live tooker 2. we'll go in space and see that same shot. you know, from the satellite, can you see where it's pushing across the bay. we have fog up against the berkeley fills.

that often happens. that con vrnls up there and you get this sort of fog beginning to form before you get fog in other places. we're going to have plenty of clouds tomorrow morning when you wake up. that's the bay area forecast. low clouds and fog. the story, a major cooling trend going into the next few days. the bay area weekend is going to be cooler as well with temperatures -- we, they're going to be way down there into the sixties and seventies. low visibility, less than a quarter mile. areas of dense fog tonight and we'll see that again tomorrow and the following night. you can see that we've got 65 in lafayette. 70 in walnut creek. we have -- we have mid-70s, some low 80s trying to show up but you get the idea, right? there i am. i was trying to get back on tv. you can see a lot of activity out there. that activity plays big time into your bay area weekend and

into next week. we start off with the cooling trend and then bang, look who shows up around monday, tuesday and wednesday. fire danger comes off the table. you know what? some of the wind forecast and windfall forecast for this look like something that you would see in november, maybe december. so this looks like the real deal. timing is going to evolve and change a lot. suffice to say i would clean the gutters. 82 in brentwood. no spare the air day. the adds with your weekend in view, you can see it right here we are looking for temperatures to really fall away and fire danger and rain to show up next week. >> we'll get that on tuesday. >> yes. >> thank you, bill. lessons learned once again. what the chp is offering older drivers to keep them safe on the road. @

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to tune up their driving skills and it was about more than just taking away the keys. >> we understand it's their freedom, their way of communication, it's their way to get from their home to their doctor's, to their drug stores to do simple things as going to the cleaners and even grocery shopping. we are not taking this very lightly. >> the chp called it sacramento seminar age well, drive smart. it was a chance for mature drivers to learn about age- related changes and how it would affect their driving. officers recommended that drivers get their eyes checked and eat healthy but they are the one who is decide. >> life does not end because you can't drive. there is dial a rye, bus, light rail, things out there that keep you mobile. >> the chp says that one of the most common senior citizen accident happens when they fail

to yield at left turns possibly due to bad depth per accepting. the highway patrol asked for family members to watch for senior drivers who may have impaired eyesight or decreased motor skills coming up in just 90 seconds, our news chopper 2 is above the schnitzer steel company in oakland. details on the scrap metal fire burning for more than an hour now. first cantaloupe. now listeria found in lettuce processed right here in california. ?

good evening. i'm julie hoener. first, we take you to our breaking news story. we go to the schnitzer steel shredding. that fire spread thick smoke over nearby interstate 880 into nearby rush traffic. no one has been hurt. we should mention a similar fire happened two years ago.

>> pleasant hills, resident are now being allowed to return to their home following a gas leak late this afternoon. a crew working at the interception of ruth and viking drive struck a three-inch gas line. it happened as students were three schools were getting out. the latest from police is that viking drive will remain closed through the evening. sources tell ktvu that officers exchanged gunfire with a fugitive murder suspect in mendocino county today. aaron basler is wanted connection with the death of a fort bragg council member and another man. police don't know if the suspect was hit but the officers are okay. in just the past 90 minutes a vallejo firefighter was injured while rescuing a disabled man from a fire. ktvu's ken pritchett joins us now live in vallejo with word that the vick ta