. we have more as protesters try to put more tents up, we will show you what police did. facebook is moving and with it will come a lot more traffic to the park but do the benefits outweigh any traffic concerns out here. well it is a cold one out there but what about afternoon highs, can we continue to warm them up? plus the sad sudden death of a couldn't athlete -- college athlete who graduated from the local area high school. this is ktvu channel 2 news. well, good morning to you, welcome to a brand-new day, it is thursday december 8th, i am dave clark. >> let's start with steve pal sent and -- paulsen and a look

at your weather, hey, steve. 30s and some low clouds and fog, that is not something we have had lately but clouds extend from the north bay to the south bay and it is still cold out there but it will be mostly sunny, highs 50s to near 60 degrees. here is sal. there is a crash 580 westbound on grand avenue that is blocking at least one lane. also the morning commute looks good if you are driving on the mcarthur maze, 6:01 let's go back to the desk. within the last 30 minutes, another protester tried to put up attend at justin herman plaza but police quickly reacted. a little more than 24 hours ago, there was a raid and police insist tents will not be allowed back in. claudine has more on what

happened. claudine? >> reporter: you can see there is a handful of people who are sleeping out here in sleeping bags and there is one gentleman in particular who within the last 30 minutes tried to set up a tent. police, only two of them quickly moved in, they approached the tent, walked up to the man inside and basically made him take it down. we spoke to the man after the conversation took only a few minutes and he tells us what they talked about. >> i said he knows no tents are allowed and i said if he wants to give up the tent he will have to give me the tent and he said he doesn't want to and i said you will have to break it down so he broke it down. >> reporter: they are sleeping on top of it instead of

sleeping in it and there are more people up at the federal reserve building and we walked up there which a couple of blocks away and police tell us before the raid there were 10 people sleeping up there and right now i counted may be 50 to 60 in and around that area. they basically moved from justin herman plaza to up the street and they are in sleeping bags but the question is what happens next. i spoke to the man afterwards, after trying to put up a tent and i said did you know you were not supposed to put up a tent and he said i am just cold and tired and he didn't want to say much. police are pat controlling constantly and they -- patrolling constantly and they will not allow them to put up

tents. how long they will allow them to sleep out with sleeping bags is not known, and we will keep an eye on things, claudine wong ktvu channel 2 news. the university will focus on the death of a football player from right here in the bay area. fred some son was a -- fred thompson was a freshman from oakland tech originally from richmond. he played at a game last night when he collapsed. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. this sunday would have been his 20th birthday. they are reporting their family pets have been poisoned. they became sick and were rushed to the hospital after

some areel mitting. -- vomiting. methadone was found in their system and methadone is used to treat heroin addiction. >> i hoping in like this ever happens to anybody else in our neighborhood. >> both pets were in good health according to the owners. the pets were deliberately poisoned and the person responsible could face felony charges. the cuts were due to expire in june but they were supposed to help layoffs. the pay cuts are expected to prevent police layoffs next year. today a review board will plan on inn stalling cell phone antennas. at&t is trying to boost coverage in the city but some

people are concerned the large antennas will be an eyesore. they reviewed the company's plans in august and today at&t is expected to reveal alternative designs it has developed since that summer meeting. the white house will very veal -- reveal a new strategy for fighting home grown terrorism. a live update from our newsroom, showing a new way to deal with violent extremism right here in the u.s. out here in nevada they will try again to recover the bodies of the five bodies from that helicopter crash. that helicopter slammed into a mountain while conducting a tour of the las vegas strip and the hoover dam. it is still not clear what went wrong.

four prisoners are back behind bars this morning. now the riot broke out yesterday afternoon and involved at least 50 prisoners. guards fired rubber bullets and paper spray to get the inmates back under control. time now 6:06, facebook is expected to have a big impact on the roadways. live at the park to tell us how soon you drivers can expect to see arise in the -- a rise in the traffic, good morning lorraine. >> reporter: we took a peak and we could see there were people already working inside. they had a christmas tree up already and with this new plan to memo park here, to you is supposed to be complete by the end of the year and that's when

you can expect to see more traffic here. now facebook has about 2000 employees right now but it plans to have more than 6,000 and of course with all these new commuters comes more traffic congestion but some of people we work with here in the bay area there is something more important than any traffic headaches. >> yes, i assume there will be more traffic but i assume we need more jobs. >> reporter: now an environmental study says the new employees at this location because there are so many of them it could affect highway 101 as well as state 84 and there will be an informational meeting tonight at bell haven senior center and they will discuss more of this. there will also be a public hearing on january 9th, ktvu

channel 2 news. checking in on the traffic, how is it, sal? steve has been mentioning the fog and traffic here at the golden gate bridge is foggy, you can't see very much and it is going to be foggy in parts of the bay. traffic is okay, it is a lot more foggy and getting more crowded, there is a crash on the shoulder and it may be affecting the lanes because a car went over the side and when they get this out, traffic will not be blocking the right lane. >> steve, there will be shows at the fillimore, one of our tweeters sent me a note. >> now i have heard one of our viewers watches this. >> yes, lives in marin. >> yes. over in crocket, 8th of a

mile visibility, sal touched on it and we had a dry air mass over us for a while and you get a southerly breeze or westerly breeze and so you get condensation and there is a low cloud deck in the south bay so it is increasing here. now there is a little system and the emphasis is on a little because there is not much and it's falling apart. 28 in napa and fairfield and it is cold. a lot of 30s and you get that damp cold, which is the worst kind. danville and santa rosa, 29 degrees and 31 in montgomery village. 32 in los gatos and palo alto also 32 degrees and there is a

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. welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 news, it is now 6:13 and the obama administration is expected to unveil a strategy aimed at battling home grown terrorism. allison has more with that story, allison? >> reporter: pam, this plan would partner police including federal law enforcement with community groups even schools to teach them about extreme terrorism and how to stop it. now from a deadly shooting in arkansas to the massacre at fort hood, officials say home grown terrorism is a growing threat. we are still waiting for more details from the white house this morning but they are

reporting the obama administration will put a training program in place by this spring to recognize radical behavior in its early stages and prevent attacks. until yesterday we learned there have been many home grown plots many targeting military bases. >> this is serious and enduring. >> reporter: a look at training in communities and why it is so controversial. it will be during my next update within the hour, allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. more bodies of u.s. troops were sent to a landville more than was previously acknowledged. the ashes of at least 274 american troops were dumped at a virginia landfill. that is more than they originally revealed and they were never formally authorized and this ended in 2008.

it was an especially sad funeral service, 1600 bodies were buried yesterday, they were all in a common grave and no family members were there to mourn. every year they conduct this ceremony for the unclaimed, the poor, the homeless and other troubled people. the office stores the remains for two or three years and then sends them to this mass grave. mourning the death of one of their employees crushed to death in a horrifying accident. they got a call from a woman who said she was stuck in an elevator between floors. firefighters said she tried to crawl out of the elevator on her own when it suddenly shifted down and crushed her. several agencies are conducting investigations. flag flag will -- rod blagojevich will have two more months to be with his family

before he reports to prison. >> this is a time for me to be strong for my children and for my wife. >> he will face 14 years behind bars for multiple counts of corruption including trying to sell president barack obama's senate seat. he said he made terrible mistakes and that he is sorry. he will have to serve at least 12 years before he is eligible for release. a man in thailand was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for defaming the royal family. he was born in thailand and he was convicted of using excerpts and posted them online. the general in bangkok spoke out against his sentencing and said he is being punished for

exercising his right to freedom of expression. she was accused of encouraging protesters. thousands have taken to the streets of moscow to protest reports of fraud in sunday's parliament trielection. national reporters report widespread stuffing of the vote count. hillary rodham clinton has criticized it saying russian voters need a full investigation. a mail bomb was addressed to a top banker. it was addressed to frankfurt germany and it was a fullly functional bomb. had the device not been -- the device was spotted before it went off. security has been beefed up at several bank branches around the world including the offices in new york. >> i think it is time to check in on the toll plaza about now.

>> it is, pam, you have learned well and dave, i'm sure you know this is around the time they turn on metering lights and it makes a big difference in traffic. it starts to fill in and that's what is happening right now so if you are driving from the city to oakland you will see a bit of a delay. traffic is moving okay once you get onto the span. let's take a look at interstate 880 oakland and both directions are looking pretty good, northbound and southbound, so anywhere you roam, it will be a nice commute on the freeway for now. and on 580, it is a car that went off the embankment and it may block a lane if they do that. 6:13 it is cold and we have some fog back into the mix and there is no breeze at all so that really helps the fog.

some of the fog reducing visibility, some of the low cloud deck is now starting to fill in and even at fso they are reporting low clouds and right down to 1,000 feet we have not had some fog but the air mass is really dry. it looks like 20s and 30s and 1:45, it is cold. our system will fall apart and after that system disappears, it is apache low -- it is patchy low fog and we will have 50s to near 60 degrees and we'll see an increase in that fog deck and with your weekend always in view it will be foggy and dry. nearly every website is

offering the same thing to holiday shoppers this year. they are offering free shipping. 92% will have free shipping during at least part of the holiday season in fact 1/3 of shoppers will not look at products on a website that does not offer free shipping. it is up 15% compared to 2010. yahoo has a court judgment that it does not expect to collect. they attempted to steal yahoo passwords and information and now it claims more than 11 e- mails were sent saying it sponsored a lottery. it would make sure users would know they could still trust the e-mail provider. apple is putting one of its newest touches on one of its

biggest newest stores. we will get a look inside. and something you have never seen before inside a manhattan office. if you are driving downtown san jose so far so good, you will see traffic moving along nicely, more traffic straight ahead.

. good morning, traffic is moving along slowly at the bay bridge plaza before you make it on to the bridge you will see good traffic moving to the city. edison going door to door in the san gabriel valley in los angeles, checking on the last home still without electricity caused by that huge wind storm and they say lights will be back on for everybody by the end of today. santa ana winds knocked out power to thousands of customers. they are back in their home countries and that's after braving the real colds after taking part in the and dark can -- and the antarctica race marathon.

they were required to have their skin fully protected before they can compete in these subject zero conditions. one man won after three hours 47 minutes. we told you about the new am store at grand central station. the ipad and "i" phones are much bigger and it will probably draw more people to the station and increase time while shopping there. the 20,000 square foot store will open to the public tomorrow. they moved out of an encampment and moved into a manhattan office. they are count ducting -- conducting administrative work and their equipment is all

donated. getting kicked out of the park did not stop the movement. >> we call it the occupied office and it's what people are doing in church basements and eight yums and intersections. >> they moved out of that area last month. dozens of new employees, the bay area event that could help you land a new job. we are working at occupied justin herman plaza, we will show you what happened when they tried to put up tents. pam will have early morning numbers when the opening bell rings, stay tuned for more. dad, a big giant bee! get it!

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. welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 news, they are just about to get ready to ring the opening bell and big news coming up a short time ago, cutting interest rates to counter the recession and inflation but european markets are all heading lower right now. it looks like our futures are now pointing and there is the opening bell live, take a look at the bottom of your screen because it looks like the dow jones industrial average will drop about 100 points, so we will have business news coming up. thank you for joining us on ktvu channel 2 news, thursday december 8th, i am dave clark. >> and i am pam cook, time now 6:30, we are starting with a new development in the occupied protest, it happened an hour after that police raid. claudine wong is there with new video and new reaction from the

police, what happened claudine? >> reporter: good morning, the strong police presence remains and i want to show you where several police cars have just pulled up. nobody going in within the last 15 minutes but we saw police with riot helmets in hand. really there is only a handful of them here at the foot of market and most people are in sleeping bags, but there have been a couple of attempts to put up tents, one this morning and one within the last 30 minutes or so. police walked up to the plaza and told the gentleman inside he would have to take the tent down and we talked to the lieutenant about that conversation. >> i said he knows no tents are allowed in the park and i said if he wants to give me the

tempt i will accept -- tent i will accept the tenth and he said -- the tempt and i told him to take it down. >> reporter: i asked him why he put up the tent and he said i am tired and i am cold. we found quite a few of them up the street right at the federal reserve building and folks are telling me ten people were there yesterday and today there are 50 to 60 people sleeping on the street. no tents up there as well but lots of sleeping bags and a lot of other stuff with that psuedoencampment there. no tents but you can stay in sleeping bags and how long you can stay in sleeping bags, that is still unclear because at 10:00 a.m. yesterday, they started to enforce the no sit lie down ordinance and it depends on

what type of days. now that police are out here, a little bit more closer to the encampment they seem to becoming out of their sleeping bags and seem to be sitting up and taking notice of the extra police. but again nothing is happening as far as confrontations but we will continue to keep you live right on ktvu channel 2 news. claudine wong ktvu channel 2 news. protesters were arrested after refusing to leave the plaza after the 11:00 p.m. curfew according to the sacramento bee. protesters are claiming their right to assemble should not be limited by a curfew. they have treated occupied protesters legally and ethically. now the department has upload dozens of audio video files on

the city's website. one of the videos shows protesters crowding around and bothering a police officer with a baton. and there are transcripts of accusations of excessive force and we will post that on our website www.ktvu.com. oakland city clerk has given them the go ahead to recall mayor jean quan and they have a certain timeframe to qualify the measure for the ball lost.$♪ complicating things, a second group has tried to come out with a petition to recall the major as well. they are looking into whether there can be two at the same time. the parents of hiram

lawrence, jr. are asking for your help. doctors are saying he is now brain dead and should be taken off life support because he will not survive. however his parents want more time and they want a second opinion from another medical team. >> the doctors said he was not going to make it out of surgery. he made it out of surgery and now they are saying he is still not going to make it but he is showing progress. >> so far the hospital has not made any comments about the family's request. hiram lawrence, jr. was in his father's arms while he was shot in the head two weeks ago. supporters of the same sex marriage ban want the court to set aside last year's ruling that declared prop 8 unconstitutional. the judge who made it did not disclose he was in a same sex

long-term relationship. the court will also hear whether audio recordings of that trial should be made public. it is now in the hands of the county board of education. charter supporters are appealing to county trustees after district officials denied their petition. it was a big turnout last night, more than 60 people signed up to speak. charter supporters are vowing to take it all the way to the board of education. if you are looking for a job this morning, wells fargo is hiring. the company is hosting a job fair in santa clara. they are looking for more than 70 people for hiring throughout the bay area. there will be two sessions and the first one will be until 1:00 p.m. this afternoon and the second session will be held from 4:00

p.m. until 8:00 p.m. tonight. the company promises it will be environmentally friendly. new plans showing the sick lar main pulling to be covered in solar. it will make it one of the biggest in the country. it is good news for the economy but it may be a different story for commuters. joining us live, in memo park where the new campus is causing some traffic concerns, lorraine? >> reporter: good morning. yes, it is causing some traffic concerns but facebook is planning on little mitting the dark limiting the amount of trips, commuters will do. during heavy traffic times they plan to allow only 2600 trips

which will still affect every community in this area. with 2000 facebook employees driving in and out of here, many other key intersections will also be delayed, highway 104 and highway 101. it could affect many people trying to get their kids to school on time. >> i take my nieces and everybody to school so there is a lot of traffic. i don't mind just because of the traffic. >> reporter: now facebook is asking the city to allow more than 4,000 employees and eventually putting 6600 people. now of course it allows more traffic in the future and it also means a lot more jobs in the area. reporting live ktvu channel 2 news.

let's go back to sal, what are you looking at now, sal? the fog is moving into some of the bridges and this is the bay bridge and you can see it is a little foggy but not foggy enough to be low and it is a little bit of a challenge and some of these areas -- our expert steve paulsen is right there getting ready to tell us about the fog. but the first one -- this is not going to be a problem and all of a sudden we he have it here. put that in the back of your minds, especially in the north bay. perhaps you are going down to the park or perhaps you are going down to your job at facebook but 101 may be closer for you so go ahead and use it, no major problems there.

6:39 let's go to steve. >> you are being very clever on twitter. >> thank you. that low cloud deck has put the breaks on some of the lows but man, it is still cold out there. not cold but damp and i was just talking with cameron and she said she doesn't like the cold. the fog has been gone for a while, there is no winds at all this morning. by noon it will be gone, cool to and minds, sunny and mild a little haze on the edge but the rain pattern is just not over the coast. high pressure said i am sending everything way to the north and fog is back hazy sunshine to near 30s and 40s and highs will be upper 40s and of --

upper 50s and 60s. fog is back and not only do we have some ground fog but we have low cloud deck which is up around 1,000 feet. a change in the pattern and that will play into our weather may be next week when we get another round of wind. 28 in napa, 29, livermore 32, sonoma county airport, there are some colder numbers, danville 29 degrees, ken fields, los gatos and palo alto 32. we need rain but it is not happening today or the next couple of days. mostly sunny, patchy fog 50 to

60 degrees. mountain view, 57, napa 57, vallejo 57, chilly cold and leveling off to upper 50s. hecklers interrupt chris christy. the reason they say president barack obama should be blamed. a football player collapsed and died, what we are learning about the stand out athlete who played in the bay area. we have more coming up on our commute straight ahead. stay tuned. ♪

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. well,good morning to you, here is a look at some of the top stories we are following, following the occupied sf, one of the demonstrators tried to put up attend at justin herman plaza, and police took it down. they are still out there trying to reclaim the camp the morning after that big police raid. the parents of a toddler critically wounded in last month's shooting in oakland want a second medical opinion.

hiram lawrence, jr. was shot in the head and his doctors say he is brain dead and should be taken off life support because he probably will not survive. and animal control officers are investigating pets being poisoned. one family said their dogs were poisoned. traces of methadone was found in the body of one of their pets. they will address the sudden death of a football player from the bay area. 19-year-old fred thompson was a freshman defensive tackle. he graduated from oakland tech and was originally from richmond. he was playing when he collapsed and -- collapsed and died. they reported it was an apparent heart attack and sunday would have been his 20th birthday. they are concerned about an increase of teenage prostitutes and many of those reports are

coming from berkeley high school. officers say the school gives them one to two refresh rales -- referrals a month and many met to find a solution. >> it is a big issue, these are youths and it is a sensitive tragic situation so we are very concerned about it. >> the city commission is posing a task force made up of city and school officials to help provide services to the girls being trafficked and exploited. the maker of the was birth control pill, a panel will decide whether to add new warnings labels to yaz and several other contraceptives. researchers say the in your drugs are -- newer drugs are more likely to cause blood clots. a woman will speak about her

daughter who died after taking yaz for two months. presidential candidate in iowa... >> now chris christy said they represent an anger in the u.s. that president barack obama has caused by not delivering on his election promises. christie was there to announce the endorsement and protesters were eventually escorted out. pepper spray involves a special education student and that story is coming up on mornings on 2 at 7:07. a hurdle will be cleared in plans to bring bart to san jose. the transportation authority will vote on a construction

contract and this project will create thousands of jobs and transport 36,000 riders every day. they expect that work will be finished by 2016 meaning the first bart trains could be rolling ahead of the 2018 schedule. right now sal has all the details on your commute, everything you need to know. we have some troubled spots and first of all we will start off with oakland westbound 580 a car went off the side and traffic is quickly backing up there. it is early to be backed up so much. 880 southbound in hayward is already getting slow as you pass highway 92. you might want to think about using this as an alternate to 580 and so far so good in both directions. it is a little bit foggy but

not all that bad. 6:49 let's go to steve. we do have an increase in the fog and we lose that winds and things dry out and there is a puff of a breeze and more moisture in the air, low cloud deck seems to be increasing and there will be more fog tomorrow. more temperatures to near 50s and 60 degrees. it will still be sunny and the days are very short. a system coming by hats wiped himself out. visibility about a quarter of a mile and again it is right up to 12,000 feet and san jose is at 1100 feet, patchy clouds, 28 napa, 29 fairfield, bethel

island 27, danville 29, clayton 32, los gatos 32, so it is a cold morning, high pressure is hanging out in california and west coast, there is nothing going on here, it is just really quiet. as long as this high is here, we will change the pattern and there is no sign of any rain. forecast models are trying to bring in rain but i don't believe it. the system will start to break down and that's just not happening right now. with the weekend always in view, it will be sunny and mild. >> thank you steve. 6:51, number of people applying for jobless benefits dropped for the first time.

applications dropped from 3,000 to 381,000 and that put it back below from where it had been last month but new filings need the to stay below 37 5,000 for the job situation to be considered healthy. the european global markets are cutting interest rates this morning and still the uncertainty over there and the meeting going on in the summit, not a lot of good news coming out of there so far.$♪ a live look at the board, dow jones industrial average down 24 points and right now the nasdaq and s&p 500 are both down a little less than a half of a%. it was a little dog did something no other dog did and

we have an update on a record- setting dog. >> and myth busters expressed their fears when dealing with high powered explosives. good morning, it is going to be a little bit of a high drive for you and it is getting busy as well.

. welcome back, time now 655, and the oldest living dog in the world has died in japan. that dog was 26. here is a look, that dog was born april 1st, 1985. the dog's owner said he died after refusing to eat and he was the oldest living dog. they will not show that canon ball mishap, the one that smashed into a home in dublin. adam savage went to the damaged neighborhood yesterday. they were conducting one of their famous experiments when a 30-pound cast iron canon ball miss fired. >> we do these things all the time and we have been doing them safely for nine -- safely for nine years and you always

fear something you don't expect will happen and you try to think through all the worst case possible scenarios and we just added one to our roster. >> myth busters can't explain what went wrong and they will pay for all the damages. by the way the bomb range is closed and alameda county is investigating. let's look at traffic with sal. we do have a problem with 580 with oakland boulevard and there are a lot of flares out at the park and that's why traffic is so slow this morning. it does get better after lakeshore but you will be fine, if you are driving north and southbound, this is a great alternate route. that traffic is backed up for a 15 minute delay. let's go to steve.

it is cold and damp and we have had dry conditions, fairfield 29 oakland 29 and san jose didn't have low clouds and -- if they didn't have the low clouds they would be colder, highs will be 50s to near 60 degrees, dave, pam? demonstrators are vowing to reoccupy the occupied sf camp and we will show you what happened just a short time ago. facebook, this time it has something to do with traffic, stay right here with us, we will explain.