-- will come to an end by the end of this year. the transition -- >> the president makes a promise to end 9 years of war, good afternoon, i am tori campbell, the president announced this morning that all u.s. troops will with draw from iraq by the end of this year. this ends months of speculation

over whether the u.s. would maintain a force there beyond 2011. carol han joins is now with the president's explanation. >> reporter: tory the president said he was making good on a campaign promise, and that by the end of the year 40,000 men and women in uniform will be coming home from iraq. only a handful, 150 will remain to guard the u.s. embassy in baghdad. for months there has been speculation about whether the u.s. would keep a few thousand troops there to continue training security forces. but this afternoon the president slammed the door on that option, saying the troops will definitely be home for the holidays. >> the last american soldier will cross the border out of iraq with their heads held high, proud of their success and knowing that the american people stand united in our support for our troops. >> the nearly 9 year war has

taken the lives of more than 4400 military members including 470 from california. now the president is looking to the future and afghanistan where he plans to with draw u.s. troops by 2014. carol han, ktvu channel 2 news. >> a police chase in the east bay this morning came to a dramatic end in oakley. it all started at a chevron gas station on hillcrest avenue in antioch where noel walker has this report. >> reporter: yeah, there was an armed hold up here at 5:00 in the morning, then at 7:00 in the morning the suspect was arrested and crashed in antioch, according to me gps if you look at that right there, that is just a jaunt across highway 4, about probably 6.9 miles away so what took so long? the suspect doesn't exactly take them on a direct route. rarely do police pursuits end well for the driver who is

trying to get away from police. today is no different. this is the result of the robbery. it was 5:00 a.m., a frightening end to the shift. [ inaudible ] >> your cash -- your cashier opened the register and gave him what was in it? >> yeah. >> the suspect was being watched a camera captured it all but the suspect avoided capture for a couple of hours. >> one of our officers observed the vehicle on a street and attempted to stop the vehicle. a pursuit ensued through highway 4 and surface streets. >> there was damage along the way. he rammed 1 car and forced another poof the road.

in the end a crash was unavoidable. he flipped. inside they found a gun. customers were only mildly surprised. >> it seems crazy but it is antioch and stuff like this happens all the time. >> fortunately no one but the suspect was injured. he was taken to the hospital. the clerk said there were two men, one of them with a gun and one of them to stand look out. at the crash scene there was only one person who crashed and was arrested. we put in a call to police to find out if they are still looking for a second suspect or if they have arrested a second suspect but we have not heard back from them. live in antioch, noel walker, ktvu channel 2. >> all right. and take a look at this. water gushing from under this car. in san francisco's mission

district earlier this morning. police say the driver hit the hydrant and jumped out and ran off. city crews had to wait for a tow truck to pull it off before they could turn it off. police are still looking for the driver. inspectors are at the stadium right now after two earthquakes hit that area yesterday. the first was at 2:41 p.m. and measured 4.0, centered near college avenue and webster street. the second hit at 8:16 last night. magnitude 3.8, the center off piedmont avenue down the hill from memorial stadium. [ inaudible ] >> that is ktvu's jade hernandez, she was in berkeley preparing for a live shot on the first quake when the second one hit. there you see the inspectors going over the stadiu the fault runs under the stadium, which is in the middle of a renovation.

today the quakes were topic number 1 on campus. >> [ inaudible ] >> -- room and then everything started shaking -- [ inaudible ] >> -- couple of minutes of a break from class just to sort of like gather our senses back. >> seismologists say the second quake was an after shock of the first and there could be more quakes in the berkeley area in the days ahead. you can find all our coverage on yesterday's earthquakes as well as a quake survival guide on ktvu.com, just click on the earthquake's tab at the top of the page. occupy oakland protesters have been put on notice. the tents and the camping have to go. but it is still unclear if and when the city will enforce that order. ktvu's claudine wong is live at the sight of the protests so what happens next? >> reporter: we aren't sure at this point. as you said the city has said

the camping has to stop. the tents have to go but take a look behind me. everything is still there. i did talk to a city administration official an hour ago and asked them that question, what now. all they will say is the notice speaks for itself. they would not talk about plans to enforce it so it looks like we are at a bit of an impass. it is business as usual today. even though the city says the tents, the cooking, the camping all have to stop. >> it has become a problem now and i am tired of hearing about all the issues they are having. >> the city issued the notice last night, citing health, and other problems, saying they have determined this is no longer viable. >> this is not a camp. this is a movement. >> early this morning we saw protesters ready for action,

look outs are posted armed with radios,. >> they are just making stuff up. >> you don't think there are any problems out of here. >> not out of the ordinary. >> what do you think is going to happen if they try to take away these steps or make you guys leave. >> no comment. >> we are going to do our best to be respectful and hold our ground and stand up for our right to protest in a peaceful fashion. >> the city says it is not about the protests but what has come with it. >> i am all for peaceful, protesting, but i think the cause has gotten lost here as versus like maybe san francisco or other places where it is going on. >> reporter: well, the city says it may have more information about a possible response later this afternoon. in the meantime, though, despite the notice nothing has changed, live in oakland, claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. [ inaudible ] >> there was a crack down at the occupy camp in cincinnati, ohio, early this morning, police asked demonstrators to leave a park after 12 days, 23

people were arrested and face misdemeanor trespassing charges. police are patrolling the campus of concord high school after a threat of violence. school officials received a fax yesterday claiming someone would start shooting at 10:00 this morning. nothing happened but officers will stay on campus until school let's out. >> unfortunately, this will, you know, be a cost to the school district and be a cost to the students in lost learning time and you know if it is a hoax at the end of the day that all needs to be taken series uly and i hope we apprehend the person responsible. >> officers were also at a nearby middle school and elementary school. >> i think it is absolutely crazy that somebody could just put in a fax and say at 10:00 we are going to do this or that. you have a whole bunch of parents and kids that are completely freaked out. i am noontime supervisor here at the school, but i think it is absolutely crazy. >> the threat comes one week

after another high school received a threatening e-mail. investigators say they are unable to recover any useable on ford video from the modified racing plane that crashed at an air race in reno last month, killing 11 people. the national transportation safety board technicians are still trying to recover information from an onboard data memory card. they are also pouring over dozens of photos and videos provided by spectators at the event. investigators say their final report still could be months away. libya's transitional government is delaying the burial of moammar gadhafi to allow the court to examine his body and right now that is being storedded in a commercial freezer in a shopping center. antigadhafi fighters say they found him hiding in a drainage tunnel under a highway outside of his home town of sirte yesterday. a air strike hit two vehicles

in his convoy trying to leave the city. after several hours of fighting the rebels were able to capture the man who ruled their country for 42 years. >> i seen that gadhafi killed a lot of lane libyan people and he deserved what he got in the end. >> humanitarian groups want to find out if he was shot during the firefight or after he was taken into custody. he reportedly was shot in the head, chest and stomach. secretary of state hillary clinton weighed in today on the situation. what she says his death means for the future of that country. the group wild rescue is still trying to track down and capture any injured hawk in san francisco's golden gate park. this is a new picture showing the hawk is still able to catch small rodents and feed itself, even though it has been shot with a nail gun, volunteers have been trying to find it and catch it so they can treat it.

wild rescue has offered a 10,000 dollar reward to catch the person who shot the hawk with the nail gun. a marin county judge turned down a request from a accused serial killer. he asked he be allowed to take private showers but the judge said he had to shower at the same time as other inmates just like everyone else. he is representing himself against charges he murdered four women between 1977 and 1994. a yemeni man was stented sentenced to life in prison for his role in this. they were shot to death after being taken hostage by 19 pirates, the man sentenced today was a fisherman who was himself taken hostage by the pirates and says he agreed to join them to get his fishing boats back. the late steve jobs issued

a warning to the president. what his be biographer says he predicted. it is a cool start. will it warm up? rosemary will have your forecast. plus more trouble for pg&e, what crews are inspecting now and why. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, jessica! jerry, are you crying? no, i just, i bit my tongue.

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the doom day prophet from oakland predicts today will be the end of the world. harold camping says the final judgment period ends tad and true believers will be raptured. previously he predicted a may 21st rapture but nothing happened. he blamed that on a math error. the 90-year-old are avoiding the media but continues to post messages on his website. secretary of state hillary clinton says the death of gadhafi is the start of a new era for libya. >> and i want to underscore the commitment. united states to supporting the libyan people as a friend and partner as the embark on this new democratic path. >> clinton made those remarks in islamabad, where she is meeting with top pakistani officials. leon panetta leaves today on his first trip to asia as

defense secretary, his first stop in bali, for a meeting of defense ministries from southeast asian nations, the group is expected to discussion relations with china, which is not a member. he will also visit japan and is set to end his trip with a stop in south korea. president obama is vowing to press on after a version of his $447 million jobs bill failed in the senate last night. the measure was designed to boost hiring of teachers and firefighters. it would have been paid for with a surcharge on income exceeding 1 million dollars. it failed on a 50-50 test vote rather short of the 60 needed to bring the proposal up for debate. reporters out -- reports out today say apple's co- founder steve jobs warned president 0 ballot o bama last year he risked being a one term president because of his policies. it says jobs told the president

he needed to develop more business friendly policies or companies will continue to hire workers overseas because of the cost of regulation in the united states. there are reports this noontime that wal-mart is rolling back health benefits for some of their workers. the new york times says the retail giant told employees that future part-time workers will not qualify for health coverage and new employees would work 24 to 33 hours a week won't be able to put their spouses on their health plans. however, children will still be allowed on those policies. wal-mart blames rising health car costs for the changes. the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case today in the involuntary manslaughter trial of michael jackson's doctor. the defense is expected to cross-examine the prosecution's star witness. yesterday he said dr. murray probably gave michael jackson

40 times more propofol than he admitted to police. dr.schaffer also theory rised he put an iv drip of the powerful drug into the singer, then left the room. leaving jackson to die. actress lindsay lohan had and early morning call at the coroner's office, she reported before dawn to begin her court ordered community service, about an hour early. the 25-year-old starlet was sent home yesterday when she arrived 40 minutes later. the office says she will be doing custodial work. she will work two eight hour shifts a week until she completes 151 hours.

pge and says most of the equipment that needs to be rechecked is in santa clara county. >> good afternoon to you, a live look here, san francisco, transamerica building, almost right behind me there and well, we have just patchy fog outside our door this morning. woke up plenty gray around portions of the bay but you can see just in there looks like santa cruz right off the coast, pest ka deer a, and our winds turning. 66 here, those are your temperatures. mostly sunny skies through the afternoon, patchy fog

tomorrow morning and sunshine saturday and sunday. the satellite radar here the last bit of that cool air has pushed to the east. you can see a zonal floor though -- flow i should say, high pressure is going to build in so we will see that average by saturday and sunday. we will be gina cool start for your weekend mornings, patchy fog and plenty of sunshine in the afternoon, today 5 to 7 degrees warmer than yesterday. tomorrow another 5 to 7 degrees, so the jump, then it looks like mid-even upper 80 recess in time for the warmer spots come sunday afternoon. forecast highs expected for today, 75 petaluma, 76 novato, and those are your other temperatures. santa clara valley a nice day. 77 san jose. 77 santa clara, peninsula looking good as well, 74 expected san mateo for the

afternoon, 72 san bruno, upper 60s for the city for the afternoon and widespread 60s expected along the coastline, your weekend in view for you here, again patchy fog to start the morning, afternoon sunshine, temperatures warming above average at some point. monday we take a slit dip. tuesday we do rebound and in this case a little bit of a too good of a thing possible, tory. >> uh-huh. >> it looks like next week we could continue with the offshore breeze, high pressure, maybe fire weather returning to our area. >> yeah, something to be concerned about -- >> yeah -- >> -- the -- >> -- weekend -- >> -- moment even though this time his team lost. >> and craig has delivered again -- >> -- given the st. louis cardinals a 1-0 lead with a pinch hit in the 7th inning, his run scoring hit won the world series opener for st. louis the night before, however, this time the texas rangers rallied in the 9th to

beat the cardinals 2-1, game 3 is tomorrow night in texas and you can see that game right here on ktvu channel 2. it is every surfer's worst nightmare, the great white scare that left -- [ inaudible ] >> -- alive -- >> -- up, about 10 feet up in the air.

after spending much of the

week rather confused markets are storming higher ahead of this weekend's much hyped european summit on dealing with debt crisis, also good earnings report out from general electric, microsoft and mcdonalds all helping stocks, the dow currently pretty a session high up 235, nasdaq up 32, s&p up 19. the rocket took off for space this morning. the rocket was launched from a european space station in french guana. while two satellites go up, another comes down, another dead satellite is crashing to earth. it belongs to germany and weighs close to two tons and expected to land in pieces, german scientists say they won't know where it will land until two hours ahead of time. this is animation of how it will happen.

last month one crashed into the ocean. a surfer had a close call with a shark. the great white took a huge bite out of his surfboard, barely missing his body yesterday in south beach state park in newport. they were riding the waves when the fin appeared, after it took a 23 inch chunk from the board they managed to swim to shore. coming up at 5:00 details on a fugitive sweep in san francisco. we will tell you how many people were arrested and what type of crimes they are accused of committing. that and more at 5:00. thanks for watching. have a great weekend. send comments to comments@captioncolorado.com captions by terry james, caption colorado, llc.