. a huge healthcare worker strike at all kaiser hops, -- keizer hospitals we will tell you how they are responding. we are live at a construction site and we will tell you how osha is responding. mitt romney is expected to walk away with a win, ktvu channel 2 news continues. well, good morning, welcome to tuesday, it is the last day of january, january 31st, i am dave clark. >> thank you for joining us, i

am wondering what the weather will be like, cars were lined up to head out to the beach, kind of an odd thing for january. >> that is true, we had sunshine warm temperatures, we had a lot of cloud cover over us and even some local drizzle. even the higher clouds will stream in and it will give us a cloudy day, there is a possibility of it today with cooler temperatures and 50s and 60s. here is my good friend sal. traffic is moving along well as you head out to the high-rise and also at the bay bridge toll plaza, there are no major problems this morning on the san rafael bridge in and out of richmond county, let's go back to dave and pam. a one day strike involving thousands of keizer workers,

here is a look at what patients will see at keizer today, lorraine? >> reporter: well we just spoke with a keizer representative and they tell us they have beefed up security and you can see a lot of barricades around the hospital as well as many new security guards around the facility. the last time national healthcare workers organized a strike, some patients had a difficult time getting in and out in a timely manner. mostly mental health and eye care professionals say the walkout is about getting better care through better staffing. the cough of its response to the strike could be used for patients and employees. >> it cost us $14 million for that up with day of work stoppage and we are anticipating this will be as much if not more to the particular work stoppage today.

>> reporter: they will be joined by thousands of nurses from the california nurses association and we will hear from them in about a half hour. back out here live they are just arriving and the strike is planned to start in less than an hour. reporting live in oakland ktvu channel 2 news. walnut creek keizer are getting ready to strike in walnut creek. things are expected to change in less than an hour. in all it will a fact 21 keizer hospitals statewide. it ended with a gas leak in a san pablo condominium. the crash followed a chase for suspected car thieves which started in penol.

the driver and her passenger ran away from the crash scene. pg&e tell us the people living in that condo complex are still without power. we will bring you a live update on all of this coming up in the next half hour. a ditch collapsed on a construction worker over the weekend and buried him alive. they tell us the man should not have been in that ditch in the first place, tara? >> reporter: this is now being treated as a possible crime scene, on saturday morning, a 37-year-old carpenter was working on a home and at so 30 testimony -- at 12:30 a 12-foot wall collapsed on him. it was too unstable to try to

save him. they were not able to pull his body out until late last night. we were told they were not even authorized to be working on the house. three days earlier they issued a stop work order because the i will side had not been sured properly but the work continued anyway. we learned the contractor left the country and is reportedly in china. osha has arrived and they are investigating and they could decide to file criminal charges. tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. well the city of oakland is hoping to avoid a repeat of the violent clashes that erupted between police and occupied pro testifiers over the weekend. some oakland streets looked like a war zone after protesters broke in and in all police arrested 400 people. now they will try to get stay

away orders from protestersers who have been arrested several times. two occupied d.c. encampments remain in place. the two camps are operated by the national park service and the service told protesters to take down their tents yesterday but that deadline passed and nothing was done. the 15-year-old boy facing murder charges for killing his parents will appear in alameda county court for his arrangement. moses cayman admitted to killing the couple who adopted him. moses cayman will be tried as an adult. the bodies of the victims were found outside their home in oakland. moses had been in the foster care system until he was adopted ten years ago.

well the polls in florida are now open in the state's crucial primary. they get all of the state's 50 delegates and we will have a live report. they want to expand tax breaks for small businesses. he wants to extend tax breaks to increase wages this year and expands to immediately deduct software purchases. it is based on bipartisan proposals that could win support even in an election year. sal? i have to back up or i will be the big man. >> you are invading our space. >> absolutely. let's take a look. i've got a new e-mail, they

like our new graphics and we will be going to interstate 880 in oakland and that traffic is moving along relatively well and no major problems there and no problems at the bay bridge toll plaza. also this morning -- bay bridge toll plaza. also this morning as we move down to the south bay for the most part we are off to a nice start and i don't think they have woken up just yet. also this morning, we are looking at -- i think that's it for this report, at 6:08 let's go to steve. it is not showing up on this satellite picture low clouds, fog take your pick, rather extensive from santa rosa to san jose and everybody in between even out to the delta, we are showing some form of low cloud deck. they are starting to knock on the doors and it will be a

mostly cloudy day. i heard the knock, thank you. mostly cloudy cooler temperatures local drizzle and this system will give us cloud cover and clearing tomorrow afternoon and five to ten day looks quiet and dry and a week from today will be the next opportunity for rain after tonight and tomorrow. a lot of cloud cover is persisting most of the day even though this is breaking through or showing signs of maybe clearing, there will not be much because higher clouds are racing out ahead. even if it clears the clouds will give us a mostly cloudy day and tomorrow morning is a possibility of mostly clear skies. timeline gives us fog drizzle and not too much fog on the deck some reduced visibility and a weak system will move

across us late clearing tomorrow afternoon. 41 to 50 at mountain view and most of these temperatures are stuck. we have a northwesterly president and there is one even out to the delta to keep it out to sacramento. there is enough to give us some possibility of very light rain. we are stuck and there will not be much sun but temperatures are held down today. extended forecast has cloudy skies today clearing out wednesday and it does look mostly sunny and warmer as we go to the weekend. pam, dave? a scam involving sat scores involving a well-known college. this is something some expecting mothers will not have anymore, stay tuned for more.

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. time now 6:13 they gave false sat scores and the school administrator has taken responsibility for the information and said nobody else was involved. that person has also resigned. they were rated the 9th best college in the country according to the report which

used that information. a deeper is accused of sexually assaulting two seven- year-old girls. he taught at the elementary school. both victims were at that school and the girls were blind folded during the sexual assaults. chandler denies the charges. republican presidential candidates mitt romney and newt gingrich were trying to rally last minute voters in florida today. allison burns tells us why mitt romney said he will probably win in florida tonight, allison? >> reporter: dave he has been a head in all the recent polls and another survey shows romney ahead by eight points. let's look at a rally, a newt gingrich event 20 minutes ago in orlando and it has been ten days of bitter attacks between the campaigns and newt gingrich

concedes it has been getting to him. >> mitt romney managed to run more false hoods and the debate is a good example. i have never seen a candidate for president that dishonest. >> i know speaker newt gingrich is not real happy, i know it is sad, he has been flailing around trying to go after me for one thing or another. >> reporter: newt gingrich said he is staying in the race until the end. i will have more on the campaign coverage during my next update in about an hour, allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. the two other republican candidates, rick rick santorum and -- rick santorum and rand paul have moved on to the next contest, they will go to colorado and nevada. colorado follows next tuesday.

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last week that police officer went online to expose his anger on a website that promotes martial arts fights. the officer tweeted i would go at them with both guns. anonymous views it is a criminal threat and it's calling for the richmond police department to punish that officer. east palo alto police department is calling for the investigating of a teen-ager. the 18-year-old was shot in the foot. the suspect escaped in a pontiac grand am with 20-inch chrome wheels. if you have any information call palo alto police. they could decide whether to drop wells fargo as its bank. wells fargo is at the heart of the mortgage meltdown and financial crisis. it has banked with wells forgo since 2004 and they have

donated to berkeley's non- profit. showing the x factor both paula and nichole, anyway, they are out as judges on the music competition show. they have yet to confirm that paula abdul is gone. a source close to nichole said it was her idea to focus on her own music career. and the host is also out for season two. 6:00 a.m. is the -- 6:00 18:00 a.m. is the time, on a tuesday it is still not quite the peak of the commute so we will not see the big traffic volume. let's look at the san mateo bridge and that looks good as you head out, no major problems there. if you are driving the commute

on to the 880 interstate, it looks good. north and southbound 101 in san jose. cloudy skies, low clouds, drizzle, there has been some around oakland and naharya. quarters visibility and fog. high are clouds are racing out ahead. we look foremostly cloudy day. and he have one is rather close on the temperatures because of the cloud cover. it does look like maybe some light rain, i know light rain tomorrow or maybe late tonight confined to the north bay or the coast. mostly cloudy and we have a little bit of drizzle this morning cooler temperatures upper 50s and lower 60s should cover it. it is not going to be a warm day and there is a lot of fog

out there so we may not see the sun at all. wednesday evening we kick it out and with your weekend always in view, the next hint of rain will be tuesday. exxon mobile announced its 4th quarter profits rose 2% and it helped 9. $4 billion. it topped last year's quarter and for the full year the net income is up nearly 3 5%. google yahoo and 12 other big financial companies are working together to combat fishing. they are working to design one system to we had out fake e- mails. they are looking for information to we had out fraud. they are looking to block the

scam artists' attempts making it easier for some readers. now the teams are finding out how they will be punished. they are investigating a big crash that killed 10 people in florida and they will focus on highway patrol. the san rafael bridge traffic looks good here in marin county right through san rafael, that traffic is at the speed limit, more traffic and weather just moments away.

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. traffic is moving well, no problems coming into san francisco, let's go back to the desk. florida has ordered an investigation, a huge crash has killed ten people. they will focus on the florida highway patrol and its decision to reopen interstate 75. now the road was closed more than three hours sunday after heavy smoke from a nearby brush fire and thick fog making the highway impassable. now the highway patrol defends

its decision saying the visibility was clear enough to reopen but then deteriorated rapidly. just within the last hour, italian emergency officials called off the search for 16 people still missing in that submerged costa concordia cruise ship. it ran aground two and a half weeks ago when the captain changed his planned route and struck a wreathe which caused a huge hole in the ship. so far many have not been identified. out on bail after being arrested for a daily hit-and- run, the department of public safety took gorden lee into custody earlier this month. he hit a 72-year-old man in

across walk then left the scene. lee is now facing hit-and-run and vehicular man slaughter charges and is expected in court this week. two local high school basketball teams have two more losses on their record after a benches clearing brawl. it happened between vallejo and bethel high schools. head to call the game because the players and coaches were ejected after leaving the bench after a fight. anybody leaving the bench is automatically ejected and it will be considered a loss for both teams. the take back of redevelopment money has forced them to abandon plans for a waterfront park. it was the best way to keep the a's in oakland and the city will now refocus on redoing the current home with new facilities for the as and

warriors. they are not too excited and the team still plans to move to san jose. apple's latest iphone 4 s-a causing some problems in scotland. they have problems understanding scottish accents and when it works properly it allows them to send text messages, even check the weather all by a simple voice command. since it does not work well for people with scottish accents, they say the feature is useless for them. mitt romney has a double didn't lead heading to today's florida primary. >> you can't just elect people to take different chairs, you have to have new people come in and take over. up next, what is at stake for the candidate. also a chase ends in a

crash right into a condo. we will bring you a live update from the east bay. thousands of keizer employees ready to go on strike. and we will take you to the opening bell in new york, we will tell you why stocks are higher this morning.

. optimism, they agreed to sign a new treaty to stop overspending in the euro zone and shortly after that, greece's prime minister agreed with the debt problem and

that's taking up stocks around the world and we will get you all the business news in a moment. thank you for joining us on ktvu channel 2 news, it is tuesday january 31st, i am dave clark. thousands of keizer employees are getting ready to walk off the job in the bay area and beyond. lorraine blanco is live in oakland to make sure patients are not affected, lorraine? >> reporter: you wouldn't see any difference outside the hospital but there in lies the problem. they say patient care has gone downhill and they want you to see a difference and that's why they organized the strike and the union which has 4400

members it is more importantly about helping patients to get better care and better staffing. >> many of our patients have waited five to six weeks or more to get return appointments and we fine this inexcusable. it is set to start at all 21 locations and thousands of nurses from the california nurse's association. now we will take that strike to you live at 7:00 a.m. and we will bring you live to walnut creek. for now, live in oakland, lorraine blanco ktvu channel 2 news. these are live pictures and work he is out there are getting ready to strike and you can see all the signs and everything laying there, things are quiet at the moment and that's expected to change in a

little less than an hour. in all the strike will affect 2 is keizer hospitals all over the state. an overnight police chase ended with a crash, a gas leak and evacuations at a condominium complex. it happened at the condominiums and allie rasmus is there at the crash scene with new information. allie? >> reporter: well the car involved in this pursuit was traveling down the drive here in san pablo and she was going fast because she was trying to get away from police and the car she was in came up as stolen. it ended up crashing right into the side of this condo building. >> next thing i knew, i saw a car sticking out of that wall over there and it was just like oh, my g-d, what has just happened. >> and this is what the scene looked like after the crash with the car practically suspended in the air jetting out of the garage.

there are about 100 residents in the rancho complex where this happened. none of them were hurt but police are looking for the female driver and male passengers after the crash. apparently they took off running after the crash and it all happened at 9:00 last night. it started in penol, the police tried to pull her over because the vehicle came up stolen. they of the stated the pursuit and ended up crashing in san pablo. it ended up striking a gas meter and pg&e had to shut off the gas and some residents in the surrounding building were told to leave their homes briefly. did you look over there? those were the ones that were damaged. they can't turn the gas on again this morning until a city up expecter comes and makes

sure everything is structurally sound and okay but for now police are looking for the driver and male passenger in the car that caused all of this. allie rasmus ktvu channel 2 news. there is a new twist in the domestic violence case against sheriff ross mirkarimi. according to the chronicle, sheriff ross mirkarimi kept his wife eliana lopez isolated in their home for 18 hours after the alleged abuse. they say it was to keep eliana lopez from talking to police. eliana lopez went to a neighbor's house when sheriff ross mirkarimi got into the shower. both sheriff ross mirkarimi and his wife deny any domestic violence. police want your help to find a woman who may have been kidnapped. saturday afternoon, the two men were seen beating a woman and forced her into a car. it happened on bay shore boulevard. police searched the area and

have not found that woman or the two men. they were reportedly finding a land rover. the woman is between 18 and 22 years old and the woman was scene wearing a red hooded sweatshirt. walnut creek after disturbing fights, it is one of the bar owners we will hear from coming up at 6:45. republican voters in florida are headed to the polls, mitt romney appears to have a very strong lead over newt gingrich. in tampa,florida this morning with what is at stake for the candidates. sandra? well, pam the polls are open and mitt romney and newt gingrich are duking it out for the 50 delegates in this winner takes all, mitt romney is enjoying a double digit lead in all the polls heading to this

fight and mitt romney and newt gingrich are out here in full- force on this campaign day making sure their supporters get outs there to the polls and we'll see what happens comes the results tonight, pam? >> what about the ads, i know there has been a big increase in negative ads, what are the adds like in florida and who is spending it there? >> heavy problems for mitt romney because of his loss in south carolina and he came out swinging heading into this contest making sure he was on the offensive against newt gingrich. it seems to be working because he out spent newt gingrich making sure some of these ads were resonating with voters especially heading the economy,

the recession, downed housing market trying to tie it with newt gingrich's ties with freddie mac and as he headed into this contest it certainly seems to be paying off so far in terms of early voting it shows half of 600,000 voters have gone for mitt romney and we'll see how the polls show the returns tonight. >> thank you so much for that update and we will continue to watch the results. >> we will be talking about it, 6:38 sal is watching your commute, how is 880? 880 is getting slower and let's go outside and watch traffic is both treks. it is -- directions, it is getting slower in downtown oakland and this morning looks good if you are on 237 and 880

and then it slows down. the commute is not all that bad and you can see all the traffic on the major freeways. 6:38 let's go to steve. we have overcast skies, some low cast fog and some drizzle. i don't think the low clouds will clear that much and we will have the clouds racing in here already. this system right there, it could give us some light rain tonight and tomorrow and it is already producing some drizzle. forecast headlines call for a mostly cloudy day. cooler temperatures, mid-50s to very low 60s some light rain and turning partly sunny, i know giants and if fair will be a week from today thursday through sunday and looks dry

and warmer. mountain san jose some local drizzle at the airport. a quarter mile of visibility and fog, temperatures will struggle because there is too much cloud cover and it extended all the way out to the delta and sacramento as well. now the bulk of this system, heavier parts that is driving towards the pacific northwest and by the time the front arrives it could give us some rain. we will have cloudy skies by this evening and cooler temperatures. a lot of cloud cover, we start out with clouds, fog drizzle, upper 50s and 60s for some, a cool day and below average temperatures coast bay and inland. san mateo livermore they are all 58 to 59 degrees. looks good to go thursday and with your weekend always in

view, make plans with it being sunny and mild on the warm side. a day out walking the dogs turned into a nightmare after he was tasered by a park ranger. a construction worker is buried a life after trying to -- alive trying to build a house. and we will have more on your traffic and the rest of your drive this morning to work.

. thousands of keizer employees are about to walk off the job in just about 15 minutes. these are live pictures out there right now. the workers called the strike for its workers but thousands of nurses are expected to join in with a sympathy strike. it answered with a crash, a gas leak and evacuations at a condo in san pablo. that started a chase that began in penol and police were trying catch a suspected car thieves. mitt romney has a double digit lead over newt gingrich

in the latest polls. the winner of today's primary gets all of florida's 50 delegates. they could be facing legal trouble after a horrible accident over the weekend. a ditch collapsed burying him alive. it could be treated as a possible crime scene. >> reporter: a 37-year-old carpenter was working on the foundation of a home -- [inaudible] [inaudible] . >> reporter: when police and firefighters showed up it was too late. they tried to save him but the hillside was too unstable. police were not able to pull the carpenter's body out until late last night. the contractor hired to do the job was not authorized to be

working on the thousand just three days earlier, and city officials issued a stop work order but they continued working anyway and the manager left the country. they are investigating and both police and cal osha could recommend criminal charges be filed in this case. tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. investigation is happening now after a park ranger tasered a man walking his two small dogs off the leash. now that area is part of the golden gate recreational area and they require leashes for dogs. they gave a false name to a park ranger and when he trade to walk away he tasered him in the back.

he was arrested on false information and having his dogs off the leash. a spokesperson said he was trying teach residents about the leash rule. they will be closed because of a water-main break. it happened around noontime and that facility was on the boulevard and immediately closed for repairs. the building and all park restrooms should be back open again tomorrow morning. walnut creek will meet tomorrow to discuss a number of fights in the downtown area. we showed you exclusive video one sunday morning and another weekend of drunken brawls. one man was severely beaten and we will discuss a crackdown that is set to begin this weekend. there will be more police officers pat controlling the up -- patrolling the downtown area and they will keep a close eye

on bartenders. they have been overserved. >> now the crackdown follows another weekend. police used pepper spray to break up three separate fights and officers made nine arrests. our time now 6:47 they are holding a special meeting tonight to talk about facebook's expansion plans. he moved more than 2000 employees from his home at the park. facebook now hopes to triple its workforce by the end of this year. there are some residents in the park who are worried about traffic problems and they will get a chance to voice their concerns at the meeting tonight. checking in with sal, how is it looking sal? so far so good, no major problems out there, let's go to the live pictures, bay bridge

from our camera, there is about a 10 minute wait before you get passed the metering lights and also southbound, 880 passed the sunol grade and south bay. and the south bay is getting more crowded. when you start seeing the maps turning color it means the speeds are becoming slower. we have cloudy skies, a little drizzle and it will be a mostly cloudy day and after that things will calm down and the weekend looks good. the satellite does not do it justice but watch to the left of your screen. low clouds are streaming fast and it will give us a mostly cloudy day. although nichole said there is no drizzle in the marina. mostly cloudy by noon and there

could be a break but low clouds are extensive. we will take that into tomorrow and there could be some very light rain into tomorrow morning, not much. 39 to 50 and napa is 48 and 47. so cooler there mostly for everyone else near 50-degrees. the bulk of this is heading north and we will get a weaker tail end but it gives us a lot of cloud cover. some mid-50s if you are stuck in the fog and cooler temperatures probably by late this afternoon i just don't see much of a break here. low 60s and temperatures held down because of the extended forecast and with your weekend always in view, clearing out thursday and it does look mostly sunny and mild to warmer as we go to the weekend, pam

and dave. prices dropped in 19 of the 20 cities tracked by the index. now the biggest declines were in atlanta, chicago and detroit. prices have now fallen 33% nationwide and they are back to 2003 levels. two japanese auto suppliers are topping $48 million in a criminal price fixing case. they collaborated to set artificially high prices and it had a significant impact and here in the u.s. as well as canada, japan and europe. trouble in twit erland, what happened to two british tourists may make you think twice about what you tweet. the three strikes law, the

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on the problems. state assembly will once again pave the way for california's controversial three strikes law. now voters will decide on whether to require a defendant's third strike before a serious or violent felony. right now any third felony triggers a sentence to 35 years to life in prison but it would save taxpayers $50 million over 20 years. a suspected bank robber is due back in court this morning. 38-year-old albert smith junior will appear to have a preliminary hearing date set and he is charged with killing an officer after a foot chase. smith pled not guilty in his last court appearance. he spoke out against a plan

to close a santa rosa elementary school. they have declining enrollment and poor test scores. they say the school will likely a reopen as the french american academy as a charter school. they will make a closer plan this month. there is a new push to ban plastic bags in california and the interest group said 12 million bags across the state each year, 5% are recycled and the rest end up in the ocean where it end up killing marine life. two british tourists are kicked out because of comments they made on twitter. 26-year-old lee van brian got kicked out because he tweeted

to a friend, and i am quoting free this week prep before i go destroy american. that message was flagged by authorities and they tried to explain the word destroy is slang for party in the uk but they were still kicked out. coming up on 7:00, let's check in with sal for traffic. we are getting busier as we get to the peak of the morning commute and traffic is business on interstate 880. also the morning commute, there is still a 10 minute delay and if you are driving to the livermore valley, livermore gets better by the time you get to cast tore valley and dublin. we have some low clouds, drizzle mist and we will have a

cloudy to mostly cloudy day and we will have cloudy skies by this evening and maybe some light rain early this morning. but light rain upper 50s and lower 60s. scheduled to start in just two minutes from now, a big strike affecting bay area hospitals. also an overnight police chase causes a crash right into a condo and troubles are just beginning. stay with us.