off the freeway and reopening all the lanes but you can seat damage there, traffic backed up for miles and the problem is there is no good alternate route. the best we -- the headline, a big rig accident as shut down all southbound lanes. maybe they are getting close to pulling the big rig off and then reopening the lanes but because of the back up it could take some time for this back up to essentially do back to normal. five people in the hospital including two in critical condition, following a horrible accident in san francisco and paul chambers spoke to the brother of one of them and is at the scene. >> reporter: one of the victims

friends said it was so bad their friend in the car is now pare lazed. this is what police said. the van was drive agriculture collided and took out the fence. these tire marks and a broken fence all that are left of the early morning accident, this man who asked not to be identified knows three involved. >> glad my brother is okay and my roommates. that's the main thing. >> reporter: just after 10:30 police say six people were in this congress charger when it was hit. the air bags were deployed. >> both driver was arrested on suspicious of driving under the influence and the passenger in one of the vehicles was also arrested for suspicious of possession of narcotics. >> reporter: two roommates were in the backseat and his brother in the front. >> he was in the passenger

seat and saw headlights coming to the car. he woke up and they were cutting the top of the car off. >> reporter: they ranged from 23 to 39. the two men in the van are 18, his brother and friends were having a good time and on their way home. now his brother will be in the hospital for a while. >> he is in a lot of pain. he has a small puncture in his lungs. >> reporter: about an hour ago a spokeswoman said that two people are listed in critical condition and three are in serious. live in san francisco, ktvu channel 2news. >> it's all cleared up now but south bay drivers saw a big mess on 101. the police said a tractor trailer overturned dumping scrap metal in all northbound lanes. that back up as you see stretched for miles until crews were able to clean up the metal

and remove the big rig. all lanes of the highway reopened about three hours later. >> tonight in turkey the death toll in yesterday's quake has hit 280. hundreds more are missing as rescuers rush to find survivors in the wreck. . >> the cries of mourners and the wall of sirens rang out. hundreds of after shocks have hit the area since yesterday's quake. rescue crews are digging through collapsed buildings using cranes, shovels action shovels. people pulled others alive from the rubble. some 1300 people were hurt in the quake and thousand its are now homeless. those who still have homes are -- even though many homes still standing they have no power.

aid workers setting up tents, field hospitals and kitchens for the survivors. many are sleeping outside in freezing temperatures to afraid to return home as the after shocks continue. >> despite a long history with quakes nearly a thousand buildings collapsed in turkey and john fouler is in the satellite center with interesting insight from the bay area engineer. >> reporter: turkey's once booming economy is now stumbling and some say responsible at least in part for the losses. 970 buildings collapsed, including 25 apartment buildings and a student dorm. officials say government is declining international help. >> they are proud people and they probably making a mistake. my experience with many quakes is that any help is good help.

>> reporter: bay area quake engineer spoke to us from germany. he was in turkey until the day before the quake advicing the world bank on retro fitting. he said turkey engineering is poor. >> because the lack of checking, lack of codes enforcement. this is one of the outlying areas of turkey where all of that is very difficult. as we speak we have completed retro fitting, over 800 hospital buildings. >> reporter: he said turkey is asking for international loans for retro fitting. experts say the remote eastern area is complex, the plates stabbing like an arrow. the quake the biggest there in 35 years. >> they keep teaching us new lessons, we need to really have a good look at how does this apply to us. >> reporter: bay area red cross

said that the red crescent is one of the best quake responders but they haven't asked for help either. >> and for more on quakes here in the bay area we put together a special report called the next great quake. you can watch it here, wednesday at 9:00 p.m. >> the mayor is facing fraud allegations in his attempts to hold on to the top seat in the city. we are live now to show you video that some say helps claims the mayor is trying to steal the election. >> reporter: we are here south of market in san francisco, the lieutenant governor arrived here about 15 minutes ago. he and the mayor are touring the head quarter ofs of a enter internet site. we have another crew inside to confront the mayor about the

latest allegations. a protest outside the campaign offices of the may repeats the demands made inside. >> we are here today because we cannot trust ed lee. >> reporter: rarely do you see so many opposing candidates band together. the candidates for mayor have found a common target, ed lee. >> it's become obvious to me that this is an orchestrated, this is a coordinated effort on the part of ed lee to basically steal the election. >> reporter: the latest allegations come from videos like this one, opponents say it shows supporters helping voters vote for just one candidate, lee. a campaign volunteer said she witnessed it. >> what i see is not right because my mom has absentee ballot and i see they are

filling up the ballot for the elderly. >> reporter: the video isn't as explicit. the director of the elections department said because this didn't happen at a sanctioned polling place and poll workers weren't involved some of the election codes donta apply. >> there is nothing i saw that was a clear violation of the election code. >> >> he doesn't even know the law. it's really outrageous. >> reporter: many mayor candidates are demanding an election monitor. now some of lee sporters say the volunteers were merely helping translate. the election director said all the material comes in english, spanish and chinese. reporting live. >> to the mayor. >> yes. >> activists launched a recall campaign against the mayor.

they served her with a petition signed by about 70 people. they they have to get signatures from 10% of voters or 17,000 people to put it on the ballot. they say the mayor has done little to reduce crime. we will have a full report on bay area news at seven. >> it's now been more than 24 hours since an experienced kayaker overturned in the bay and the search to find him has been called off. he was going out yesterday when his kayak flipped in the wake of a barge. the coast guard spent 17 hours looking for him but say it's unlikely he survived. friends say he was out this weekend celebrating his recover friday from cancer. >> hundreds are involved in the occupy wall street protest the actions of one man are drawing special attention tonight. maureen naylor to show us how he is taking a stand. >> reporter: we can show you him right now. we will zoom up here, 36 feet

up, this protester has been up there for more than 13 hours refusing to come down. because of safety concerns workers standing by until it happens. as the sun rose the 27-year-old stood up on a wall holding a sign. >> he isn't crazy. >> reporter: he said he managed to scale a section of the wall climbing on top of a trash can. >> we won't confront him, we won't cause him to fall or jump trying to escape. he isn't hurting anybody. he isn't damaging anything. >> i support the idea of a peaceful protest. i'm a little leery of climbing on top of a building much. >> reporter: protesters made near signs after it was cleared this morning. >> this is the second one. >> reporter: chris was one of four arrested for violating a ordinance. >> i plan to stay here. i'm not going anywhere.

>> a problem and the trash and the soiling of the area has been bad. >> reporter: this participant said some homeless have hurt the group's message. >> we are trying to fight the wall street and you don't do that by making the city dirty, by drinking, you don't do it by urinating in the corners of building >> reporter: he has been able to take a nap today and supporters using a rope to get him road and water. the city has made 12 arrests since the occupation started here and they say the camping equipment you see isn't allowed. protesters plan to stay. the city promises to continue its enforcement but it's not clear if it'll happen tonight. >> in san francisco, today members of the religious community marched in support of

the movement. 100 lead protest he is in a walk through the city. they made stops at several banks including wells fargo. they said they are in support with those protesting the financial practices on wall street. some marchers wore grim reaper costumes reading death of injustice while others carried a bowl labeled greed. in oakland protesters continue their camping. they have been told they can't stay after ten and ordered them to remove tents, sleeping basses and other gear. organizers also say police are now ticketing driver who pull into a no parking zone and make donations to the protesters. >> the president said today he is tired of waiting for congress to act so he revealed the first in a series of initiatives he says will boost the economy.

the he said a new program will help people under water in their mortgages. the president also said a new program called project rebuild will help create jobs and put families in remodeled homes. >> right now there are hundreds of thousands of empty homes like this and more than a million unemployed construction workers. that doesn't make sense. when there is work to be done and workers ready to do it. >> the program will put construction workers on the job rehabbing empty homes and businesses. the president will come to the bay area tomorrow as part of his three day tour. it comes a month after his previous visit and the third presidential trip to the bay area in six months. he will appear at a campaign event in san francisco, about 200 people are expected to pay $7,500 a person to attend. >> on wall street investors started on an up note. news of a pair of corporate

mergers and an announcement that the europe bailout fund will be larger than thought drove the market up higher. >> a loan and a jail cell. why the man accused of mowing down a hell's angel is in isolated custody. >> new information on what the southbound lanes of 101 in nevado will reopen. . >> and a significant cooldown, why is there a higher fire danger?

. the southern california lanes of nevado shut down

because of a big rig accident. the chp says those southbound lanes will not be reopened until about 5:30. that's more than a hour from now. you can see here as we pan out that the traffic is backed up for miles. the problem is there is no good alternate route. the only thing is you may want to consider taking 116 to 121 to 37 and then back to 101. southbound lanes of 101 won't reopen until about 5:30. we have an eyewitness of the hit and run that killed a member of the hell's angel on 580. why the suspect with being held isolation. >> reporter: this afternoon the sheriff's deputies contermed eddie hall has a cell alone here and they say it's for his own protection and there is good reason for that. investigators are still looking in to saturday's deadly crash

on 580 in san leandro. 30-year-old eddie hall was driving a van and swerved in to a pack of motorcycle siders killing george lopez. today we spoke to oscar jose, riding with lopez and said a van came at them unprovoked. >> that dude just snapped. i will tell you that right now. there is no reason why he did that. >> reporter: investigators say the impact threw lopez from his bike, witnesses say hall drove over lopez and then kept on driving, weaving in and out of lanes, dragging lopez's motorcycle for a mile. sheriff caught him trying to run away from the van and the burning motorcycle. hall is now in jail facing felony hit and run and homicide charges. the sheriff's office confirmed is he isolated for his protection. >> just ran over a hell 's

angel. they should keep him there. >> reporter: lopez was a member of the hell's angels and was going back to stockton. its been a difficult month for them with the killings of two hell's angels and now this. >> i would just like to say that george lopez was a hell's angel, a great one and will always be one, a good father, mentor of his family and friends. >> this afternoon i spoke to the first transit -- they say hall has been driving for them since february and had a clean record. he is due in court tomorrow. we are live in dublin. >> academic encouragement and beautiful music took center stage today because of karla santana. she graduated in san francisco,

this was part of a tour and special stop with students including the guitar club. they praised their improving test scores. >> big cooldown today. temperatures off in someplaces as much as 20 address. most of us a good 10 degrees cooler. fog along the coast. bit of a southerly surge. the wind's have gone from off shore to on shore. through the next 24 hours they will shift again. it'll give us a fire weather watch. this is the time of year you get the off shore winds, they

will create shall gust up in the hills. tuesday night, into wednesday night. mostly cloudy, the clouds now and in to tomorrow, about the same. a degree or two cooler and then tomorrow night the winds kick up and we start to warm up wednesday and thursday. as you look out at the satellite map you can see the in to the north a weak low pressure, it'll drop to the south and it sets up the off shore wind event. highs tomorrow, not going to be that much warmer or not that -- much warmer than they were today. they may be a little cooler, the yellows -- another mild day tomorrow, the fog of course comes back in. you saw the high clouds overhead. lot of coverage. a lot of fog.

still pretty nice. they are about average. maybe pop a low 80 as we move into the bay area. middle of the week. you will see a mid-70s on the bottom level and then -- mid-- mid to upper 70s showing up later in the week. fire danger increases, it's not a code red, fire weather watch but bears watching. >> okay. thank you. >> a union city woman accused of killing michelle lei was expected to enter a plea but it was postponed after she asked for time to get a neuter attorney. she is pregnant. today's decision followed a one month delay because of reported problems with her pregnancy. she was once lei's friend.

prosecute. immaterial the former city administrator lost her wrongful termination lawsuit. a jury voted to reject her claim that she was a victim of gender discrimination. the mayor fired her after she was accused of intervening on behalf of her nephew during a police gang sweep. her assistant settled her case against the city out of court for a half million dollars. >> what happened to the raiders in sports up after the break.

. okay, mark is here with saturday sports. that was ugly yesterday. >> i don't feel bad saying today because i said it friday, it was a huge mistake for them to even think about using carson palmer as the quarterback in the game. he didn't contribute totally to the loss but putting him in there the guy -- only three practices, hadn't played a professional game in nine months action he threw three picks and throughout the week most people kind of think it was distracting for the team to talk about him but today jackson wouldn't cop to that at all. >> i don't sense or felt that last week was about carsonf.

it was it was isn't me making it about him. i think a lot was written about him. i think the deal was about maybing sure we were getting ready to pay the kansas city chiefs. i know exactly what the focus as. >> all right. it's time to vote. there is your list. potential match ups. we will feat the game friday night. both teams will have their top starters, wilson and carpenter, they are feeling pretty good. >> you want to pick somebody cardinals to pitch the game its chris. he is -- anything about pitching and in a hostile environment i think he likes it and pitches better.

his problem will be good hitters and he will have to pitch effectively. >> yeah texas got quite a strong line up and they have albert. it should be a good match u. has been so far. two games each. that's the sporting line up. >> >> that's our report for now. thank you for trusting us. game five of the word series cardinals and rangers coming up right now. >> and we will see you back after the game and we are always here for you at ktvu.com and mobile ktvu. enjoy the game. where's it go? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world.

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