. a bay area construction worker is buried alive. the critical questions that surround the tragedy. police are looking for the driver after stolen -- driver of a stolen car. also, the polls are open in florida. "mornings on 2" begins right now. well, good morning. welcome to "mornings on 2."

i'm dave clark. >> good morning. i'm tori campbell. it's tuesday, january 31st. happening now, a strike at kaiser hospitals is scheduled to start this minute. thousands of employees statewide are expected to take part. ktvu's lorraine blanco joins us live from oakland with a look at what's going on there. good morning, lorraine. >> reporter: good morning. the strike just started. you can see them right over here in front of the hospital right now on howe street in oakland. the national union of healthcare workers which has 4400 workers, mostly mental health and eye care professionals. they say the walkout is about wages and benefits as well as better staffing and care for benefits. >> this is an organization that earned $5.6 billion since 2009. corporate executives earning up to eight pensions. really, completely inexcusable when it comes to their mission to deliver care to the -- to

the working public. >> we've been meeting for a year with nuhw. our last proposal was made by us, which was the first proposal six months ago. we've been waiting for six months to get a response to our first proposal from nuhw. >> reporter: and you are looking at walnut creek. there is a lot of extra security out at all hospitals. the hospitals will spend close to $14 million on replacement workers and security. back out here live in oakland, you can see the strikers down the street. they just started just a couple of minutes ago. the california nurses' association and the building engineers union are also out here. altogether, kaiser is expecting thousands of employers to walk out. the hospital says the strike will not affect patient care. so go ahead and go to your appointments and procedures as

usual unless you've talked to them about changing appointments. lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. a police chase ended with a crash, a gas leak and evacuations in san pablo. it happened at the ran chose condos on el portal drive. ktvu's allie rasmus is live at the crash scene. >> reporter: good morning. the car was traveling on el portal drive. the driver was going pretty fast because she was trying to avoid police. the driver crossed all lanes of traffic, pulled into the driveway and crashed into the side of the condo building. you can still see a lot of the damage. the corner is smashed up. if you walk up here, you can see some -- part of the bumper or part of the car. this is what the crash scene looked like. it happened at 9:00. in that video you can see the car is practically sus spended

in the air -- suspended in the air. there are about 100 residents in the rancho complex of condominiums where this happened. luckily, nobody was hurt. >> next thing i knew i saw a car sticking out of that wall over there. it was like, oh, my god. what's just hatched. >> -- what's just happened? >> reporter: police are looking for a male driver and female. they took off running right after the crash happened. this all parted in pinole -- started in pinole. the police tried to pull over the vehicle because the vehicle came up stolen. the driver kept going and ended up crashing here in san pablo. when the car crashed into the wall, it ended up striking a gas main and some gas meters. so pg&e had to come shut the gas off. and pg&e representatives say the gas is still off in this building right now because the inspector with the city of san

pablo has to come out here and make sure everything is good before they turn the gas back on. you can see that's where the gas meters and mains were located. it should look kind of like that building across the driveway. we see the meters to the left and then the individuals gas units and gas mains with the pipe going on the ground. that's what was taken out of here when the crash happened and pinole and san pablo are investigating. they are looking for the driver and passenger who caused all of this mess. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. the 15-year-old boy facing murder charges for the deaths of his parents will appear in an alameda county croom today. the alameda county district attorney says he has confessed. police found the bodies friday night outside their oakland home. he will be tried as an adult. he had been in the foster care

system until his adoption ten years ago. east palo alto police are investigating the shooting of a teenager. the 18-year-old victim was shot in the foot. the suspect escaped in a green 1990s pontiac grand am with 20- inch chrome wheels. if you have any information you are asked to call east palo alto police. berkeley city council members are expected to vote tonight on whether to drop wells fargo as the city's bank. some council members say wells fargo is one. banks at the heart of the mortgage meltdown and financial crisis. in a statement, wells fargo says they want to continue the community with meetings. berkeley has banked with san francisco-based wells fargo since 2004. on capitol hill, both democrats and republicans are supporting a bill to ban lawmakers from insider trading. the senate voted 93-2 yesterday

to clear the way for final passage of the bill. the bill would prolib its numbers of emergency -- prohibit numbers of emergencies. the polls in florida are now open. the winner of the florida primary gets all of the state's 50 delegates. coming up at 7:15, we'll have a live report on the results of the latest polls. a proposal to increase the business tax for san jose's marijuana dispensaries is on today's city council agenda. currently, the tax rate for pot dispensaries is% of gross receipts. but the probablal calls for increasing the rates to 10%. city leaders will not table any action today. concord police investigating an armed robbery

at a wells fargo a.t.m. a man says he was robbed raft night on clayton around 7:30. police say the suspect had a gun and demanded cash. he got away with about 100 bucks. if you have any information about this, calm the concord police department. 7:07. we want to check in with sal and the east bay traffic. >> you know, we want to start off there as we usually do. if you are driving there, it will be the typical ten-minute delay below. right now, we have nothing which is good. the traffic looking good if you are driving this moving out to the 880 freeway, northbound and southbound. southbound 880 son the left heading down to hayward. farther down in hayward, union city and fremont, you can see traffic is not quite heavy yet if you are just about to get in

the car, i think you might be able to beat most of the crowd heading into the south bay. as we move our maps over to san francisco. at 7:08, let's go to steve. >> all right, sal. thank you very much. we have a quiet system. rather calm out there. we do have the low cloud deck in place and then the higher clouds are inching closer, so it will be a cloudy to mostly cloudy day. any rain out of the system, not just so far, drizzle. that derk nickly doesn't count. we could get a little bit of forecast models that are not in sync. it will be cloudy. maybe later tonight, tomorrow. cloudy in the morning, then turning partly sunny tomorrow. today the low clouds will be sold out. thursday, friday into probably

sunday looking dry. if you are leading to giants' fan fetch, it looks pretty good. the includes will be slowly to burn -- fest, it looks pretty good. the clouds will be slowly to burn off. fog, drizzle, mostly cloudy here in the morning, and then cloudy tonight. we'll take that into tomorrow morning. if there's any rain, it will be tomorrow morning, probably north bay and along the coast. 39 santa rosa. yes, 50 in mountain view and also san jose. concord is 49. napa is in there. a lot of 49s here. oakland, lay ward and redwood city -- wayward and redwood

city. cooler highs, this afternoon, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. 61 the high along coast and then toward the south bay we'll see not much of a difference. the extended outlook which always has your weekend in view shows clouds wednesday and then we clear it out on thursday and it looks like sunny side up and warmer conditions during the day. tori and dave? >> thank you, steve. a prestigious college admits it fudged some numbers. sweetheart. we need to talk.

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. good morning. a lot of low clouds around. it's a cloudy, mostly cloudy morning around. a little bit of drizzle of we'll end up with cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. 50s, 60s. 7:13. a prestigious southern california college says a senior administrator submitted false s.a.t. scores to publications that rank college and universities. claremont, which is in eastern los angeles county, says that person has taken responsibility for the false scores and has resigned. math and reading scores were inflated by as much as 20 points for the last seven years. vasser college is apologizing to dozens of high school seniors who thought they received early acceptance to the schools. last friday, 120 students received what the school later called a test letter congratulating them on their acceptance. turns out, just 46 of them had

actually been accepted. >> their is a mistake. it was big one. but it was simply that -- a mistake. >> some are calling on vasar -- vassar to accept the letters. they say to accept the other applicants would be unfair. alison burns reports the florida primary could have a big effect on who wins the election. alison? >> reporter: 50 delegates are at stake. this is newt gingrich -- newt gingrich sheiking hands. he won the primary in south carolina ten days ago but he faces an uphill battle in

florida. romney has a celebration planned for tonight in it. a pullout this morning shows the former massachusetts governor up by 8 points in florida. he says the crowds are giving him a good feeling this time. >> here the clouds are good. >> reporter: no matter what happens tonight in florida, gingrich says he's staying in the race until the end. reporting live from washington, d.c., alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. 7:16. the two other republican candidates, rick santorum and ron paul, knowing they are out of the running for florida's delegates, well, they've moved onto the next contest. both candidates will campaign in colorado and nevada. nevada's caucuses take place this saturday. colorado follows next tuesday. 7:16. authorities are investigating a suspicious letter addressed to president barack obama become.

it listed joe arpie -- arpaio. part of the maricopa county sheriff's office was evacuated when the letter was opened and a white powdery substance was found inside. there was also a note inside that read "resign or die, sin sirly, joe arpai." vice president joe biden is now revealing that he had reservations about last year's raid that killed osama bin laden. the vice president made the remarks at a democratic congressional retreat this weekend. biden says he told the president he wanted more evidence that bin laden was actually at the pakistan compound they were going to target. biden says all of the top advisers were hesitant accept for then cia director, leon panetta. well, today, president obama plans to send legislation to congress to expand tax

breaks for small -- for small businesses. this hopefully would add jobs and raise wages. the legislation is based on bipartisan proposals. it could win support even in an election year. house republicans are expanding their speculation into the obama administration's green energy programs. the report by the inspector general said the administration invested $500 million in green job grants. however, only 10% of the trainees actually got done. the assistant to the secretary labor says numbers are still being compiled. a passenger took this photo

of the poll yesterday at denver international airport before the plane was close. the impact caused damage to the left wing but no one on the plane was hurt. passengers were taken off the a plane and bussed to the gates. the faa is investigating a deadly accident at a san diego airport. changes are coming to the ex-factor." reportedly paula and nicole are out as judges.

the simpsons will be marking it's 500th episode with a controversial guest appearance from julian assange from wikipedia. . there are -- there's fog and drizzle out there. a bit of rain could be in our fourth chur -- future. and why people are saying the police are to blame for that deadly crash on the interstate in florida where ten people were killed. if you are driving on the

south bay freeway, there's some congestion. we'll tell you more when we come back. ♪

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. 7:23. sal knows all about our commute, including the in the south bay. >> that's trite. we're start -- that's right, dave. we're starting there because we do have traffic as you head out

to the south bay. you can see that 85 from los gatos to saratoga, some pretty slow traffic. we also saw a moment ago that 280 is already very slow out of downtown as you head into the west valley and now 1011 slowing from 880 heading north into sunnyvale. you really can't get around it on the major roads. maybe some of the side roads. might be slightly better but everything is getting crowded on the way into the west valley. let's move along and take a look at 237. even from the north san jose area to sunnyvale, we do already have some slow traffic here. i guess it's not that unusual for this time of the morning except for the carpool lanes, which are moving through quite nicely. if you're driving to the san mateo bridge, that traffic moves well. at the bay bridge toll plaza, there's about a 10-minute later. it's about a standard delay. 7:24. let's go to steve. okay. we do have cloudy to mostly cloudy skies out there. a couple of sunbreaks. 30s, 40s and 50s. it looks like a summertime

pattern over oakland with the low cloud deck which has made it out to the delta and beyond. the higher clouds are not far beyond. they will start to roll in. temperatures will cool down today and tomorrow there's plenty of fog. some local drizzle and a cloudy sky and a cloudy pattern. thursday we'll rebound, though. temperature also start to come up then. but today, tomorrow, 30s, 40s to start. right at 50. san jose, mountain view in there. hayward, 49. redwood city, 49 degrees. you can see how that system is inching closer. it's not strong but it's going to give us a lot of cloud cover. mostly cloudy. that's low clouds to start off with. so some fog, drizzle. cooler temperatures on the afternoon highs. 50s for many. upper 50s or very, very low 60s and we will make introduce some light rain early tomorrow, late tonight. i don't think it will amount to much and then the rest of the

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. 7:28. an investigation is underway after a work accident in milpitas left a construct struction -- construction worker buried alive and the legal troubles the company could be facing. tara moriarty has more. >> reporter: good morning. there was an accident and now there is a lot behind the gates -- behind these gates is now the cal/osha investigation. a carpenter was working on the home. at 10:30, a wall of soil caved in on him. the contractor reportedly tried to rescue the man but could not and when police and firefighters showed up, it was too late. crews were not able to pull the carpenter's body out until late

last night. now, we've discovered that the contractor hired to do the job was not authority iced ice -- authorized to be working on the house. there was a stop order work because the shoring was not proper. we've also learned that the contractor has left the country and is reportedly in china. cal/osha arrived here. it's investigating. both police and cal/osha could recommend that charges be filed. we're live in milpitas, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. there's a new twiss in the domestic violence case of san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi. according to "the chronicle" ross mirkarimi kept his wife "isolated" for 18 hours after the alleged abuse on new year's eve. they say it was to keep lopez from talking to police. prosecutors told "the chronic

le" this. both mirkarimi and his wife deny there was any domestic violence. san francisco police need the public's help to find a woman who may have been kidnapped. police received a report on saturday afternoon that two men peat a woman and forced her -- beat a woman and forced her into a car. it happened on courtland avenue. police searched the area but did not find the woman nor the men. the woman was between 18 and 22 years old and was wearing a red hooded sweatshirt. 7:31. another occupy oakland demonstration is planned for monday. now the city has a new plan to avoid a repeat of violent clashes that erupted between police and protesters a last weekend. some of the streets looked like a war zone saturday after

protesters tried to break into the old kaiser convention center. when it was over, oakland police arrested 400 people. now the city says it will try to get stay away orders against about 100 protesters who have been arrested several times. saturday's demonstration left a lot of damage in oakland city hall including broken windows and broken exhibits. now some are questioning whether anarchists have hijacked the occupy movement. that includes -- includes naomi shipp. >> i don't understand why we would would go after public assets. this is stuff the taxpayers own. why would we attack that? i just don't think this is getting us anywhere if we're gonna go in this direction. we're just alienating a mass of oakland people. >> reporter: we also talked to desi brooks. brooks camped out at frank

ogawa plaza. now she says the movement is not standing by its principles. two occupy d.c. movements still if place this morning despite a -- in plate this morning despite an order to take town their camps. both camps are operated by the national park service. the protesters were told to take down their tents by noontime yesterday but that dead line passed without incident. 7:33. today, the san francisco board of supervisors will consider a proposal banning camping, smoking and shopping carts in a portion of the district. opponents argue the plan unfairly targets the homeless. city leaders in menlo park will hold a special meeting to discuss facebook's ambitious expansion plans.

last year, facebook moved 2,000 workers from pam -- from -- workers from palo alto. many are worried about traffic problems and will get a chance to it's voice their concern at tonight's meeting. a los angeles writer that used to write reviews for the s.f. weekly has been kidnapped by pirates in somalia. he was kidnapped a week and a half ago. he was on his way to the airport. officials say 15 men in two suvs kidnapped him and threatened to kill him unless a figure was paid. that exact figure has not been told to us yet. back here at home a recent tweet by a richmond police officer has outraged the hacker group "anonymous." last week that police officer went online to express his anger for those responsibility

for a recent -- responsible for a recent hacker group. 7:34. a sunnyvale man is free on bail this morning after being arrested for a deadly hit and run collision. the sunnyvale department of public safety announced yesterday, they took gordon lee into custody earlier this month for the january 5th incident. investigators say lee hit a 72- year-old man in the crosswalk and then left the scene. lee is facing hit and run and vehicular manslaughter charging. he's expected in court. a woman is in critical condition

after a fire. firefighters found her in the living room of the apartment where the fire started. they say the woman was unconscious and not breathing but they were able to feel a pulse before taking her to the hospital. 7:35, a san jose teacher accused of sexually assaulting two 7-year-old girls is due pack in court today to enter a plea. craig chandler is a teacher at the ob whalely elementary school. both of his alleged victims were students at the school. police say the girls were blindfolded during the sexual assaults. chandler strongly denies all of the charges. some contra costa college students may have defrauded the school when they received aid. college police say they were tipped off by the possibility of friday on the campus. the school is not sure how many people may be involved. but investigators say they want

to talk to the d.a.'s office. no formal clients have been received. the waterfront project, widely viewed as keeping the as in oakland. the city will revamp the as current home. that plan calls for a new coliseum for the as, warriors and raiders. the as don't appear too excited

about any of these plans. the team still plans to move to san jose. let's get you out the door. sal, you taking care of 280? >> trying to. i would give it a less than stellar report card. traffic is busy on 280. i mean, it's not that bad. 85 is getting slow from los gatos, saratoga and cupertino. this is 880. normally it's slow. right now it's not all that bad as you lead up to the bay bridge toll plaza. when you get to the toll plaza, it's a 10 to 15-minute wait here as we look at it from our emeryville camera, you can see the traffic is standing up, except for, i should say, the carpoolers and some of the people who are in the fast

track lanes are getting pie quicker than cash payers -- by quicker than cash payers. let's go to steve. >> thank you, sir. mostly sunny skies, a little puff of a west wind, a southwest wind, not a lot. but enough. where are we? are we in alameda? they don't know. okay. thank you. we do have low clouds around and higher clouds are moving in closer. it looked like near the marina. the low clouds are producing a little bit of drizzle. we might get a break here until the higher clouds start to get in. they are really close. they will give us a cloudy day. this system has a little bitting if for it. not a lot. not a lot. it might give us -- it's already given us some drizzle because it enhances the fog

bank. late tonight tomorrow morning, there's the possibility of light rain and that will take us into wednesday morning. there is a little puff of a north wind up in santa rosa. so they get 39. everyone else 30s to 40s. june checked in with 37. some cooler temperatures to the north. a little system we had yesterday also produced some rain. the next system is falling apart. we'll see this drag across us but the front might have enough left by the time it arrives late tonight, tomorrow. there's some drizzle out there. there's some fog. it will be cooler on the afternoon highs. upper 50s, lower 60s. any sun really won't last too long. upper 50s, low 60s even to the south and santa clara valley. your extended forecast, has a cloudy to mostly cloudy pattern.

then it's out of here and let's not forget giants' fan fest, tori, saturday. all signs point toward sunshine, mild, warm, weather. 20 minutes before 8:00. fewer bay area mothers are scheduling early months for their babies after they find out the dakeer of that practice. the march of times is -- ditches is working on educating mothers-to-be about why carrying a child to full term is better -- better. those earlier are at a high risk. the march of dimes say without that information, many mothers are -- are only considering their own needs. >> alta bates medical center says it's seen a 10% drop in

the number of scheduled early deliveries since it started to educate doctors and students. shocking sight. why a dog owner was tased by a dog owner. and after fies over the weekend, what's being done to crackdown on downtown violence? 3q

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. the stock market appeared to be headed to the best january since 1997. the stocks climbed early because there was hope that greece was finally solving its debt problem but then dropped after consumer confidence dropped. the dow is currently down 17.

the nasdaq and s&p are flat. republican voters in florida are headed to the polls right now. heading into the primary, mitt romney appears to have a strong lead over newt gingrich. sandra endo is in tampa with what is at stake for the candidates today. >> reporter: good morning, tori. vote something in full swing. newt gingrich and mitt romney are duking it out for 50 delegates in had winner-takes- all state. mitt romney is leading with double digits and is hoping for a big win tonight. mitt romney is hoping for his second victory this primary season. a win in florida, a state with a large diversification hit hard by the recession would strengthen his argument that he could go all the way in november. >> people realize if they want to see change in washington, you can't elect the same

people. >> reporter: mark rubio believes that tonight's winner takes the nominee. this voter says she switched her allegiance from newt gingrich to mitt romney. >> i want somebody who is not gonna have a skeleton jump out at the last minute. >> reporter: still, gingrich is hoping for a win. but a second-place finish won't mean he's any closer to threing in the towel. >> i -- throwing in the towel. >> we're gonna go all the way to the convention and we are gonna win in tampa and we're gonna be the nominee with your help. >> reporter: trailing in the polls, ron paul and rick santorum, have already moved their campaign to states further down the road. >> this is gonna be a long process. this race beent be -- won't be over any time soon.

>> reporter: things are looking good for romney. in nevada on saturday, that state has a large mormon population. michigan in february, romney's father was governor there. as for newt gingrich, he's looking ahead to some southern states that vote in march. live in tampa, i'm sandra endo. back to you. >> all right, sandra. 7:46. a u.s. marine will spend 30 days in jail and have his rank reduced after pleading guilty to hazing a marine from santa clara who later committed suicide. jacob jacoby admitted he punched and kicked lance corporal lu in the hours before lu killed himself in afghanistan. jacoby said he acted out of apinger and frustration because he said lu had reportedly fallen asleep while on watch for the taliban fighters. lu's father teched. >> we're very sowed about what

we have now -- sorry about what we have now. two other marines have been accused of hazing him before he killed himself. they will have separate court marshals later. back here at home an adoptive couple is suing child protective services over prirncy concerns. the couple says they were contacted and harassed by their adopted son's birthday. the birth mother has a history of mental illness and violence and cps took both of her sons away. the couple says cps compromised their safety by not protecting their identities. the agency has made no comment on that lawsuit. bar and restaurant owners in restaurant creek will meet this morning to discuss the glowing number of fights in the downtown -- down -- in the down downair na -- in the downtown area. one man was severely beaten

inside a parking garage. the business owners will discuss the crackdown that's set to be coming this weekend. there will be more police officers patrolling the downtown area and the lift lounge is one of the bars that's been put on notice. >> shut us down. that's what any really want but now they are saying they want to crack our hours down to 11:30. police used pepper spray to break up three separate fights on sunday morning. an investigation is underway after a park ranger taseed a man walking his two small dogs offleash. the chronicle reports the incident happened on monday. the area is now part of the golden gate recreation area and requires dog have leashes. witnesses say the man gave him a false name.

when he went to walk away, he tried -- tried to run off. 7:49. this morning, san francisco mayor ed lee will break ground on a new cruise ship terminal. the state-of-the-art james r. herman cruise terminal will be right there at pier 27. it's being built as part of the preparations for the america's cup yacht case. the groundbreaking ceremony is at 10:00 a.m. now, some cruise ship bookings are down a lot in the wake of the costa concordia disaster in a regulatory filing of carnival, the parent company of costco, noted that bookings at the non-- noncosta

braferndz. as you know, 17 people -- noncosta brand. as you know 17 people have died. extra signs are put up at the alcatraz warning visitors not to go into closed-off areas. park service rangers say tourists have been trying to find secret rooms that they've seen on the tv show. most of the show is actually shot on the set in vancouver. >> the secret rooms are not real. we have a lock on the gate just to keep people out. >> they've tightened you the security. but that may not stop us. >> see, tori. he's not giving up. >> huh-uh. >> and "the rock" movie in 1996

also caused a lot of curiosity for alcatraz tourists. they are not giving up. >> no and it's a fun place to visit. >> yes. downloading apes is gaining popularity but there are some surprising findings about what happened after the apps are on their phone.

. mcdonald's will stop using a food additive some people call pink slime. the world's largest hamburger chain says the decision is not based on any particular event but celebrity chef, jamie oliver, has been campaigning against the use of the additive. it's used with a compound to kill bacteria. the fda says the material is safe. columbus foods of south san francisco has agreed to pay nearly $700,000 in fines and upgrade its refridgeration and emergency notification system. the changes are part of a federal court decree. 17 people were hospitalized and 30 others needed medical help after a pipe carrying ammonia through the plant burst. 7:55. sal, you ready to take care of everybody, get them to where they need to if? >> yes, i am, dave.

the commute is looking better which is good news. let's go outside and take a look at 101. san francisco, it's not a bad commute. when things are good, we just leave it alone. things are looking pretty good here. no major problems there. this is a look at interstate 880 in oakland. that also looks pretty decent. now, in the south bay, you will see some slow traffic, especially on 280 from downtown near 87 getting up into the west valley. 85 is also slow from los gatos to saratoga and then cupertino. >> thank you, sir. a very good morning. we have mostly cloudy skies. there's some sunbreaks out there. all of the reporting stations are saying cloudy to mostly cloudy with a low cloud deck. the higher clouds are already moving toward us.

it's going to be a cloudy to mostly cloudy day. maybe we'll get some partly sunnies. mostly cloudy by noon. we'll be cloudy by this evening. what is going up on up there in santa rosa? 37. nobody is even close. 40s to near 50 everywhere else. that's a big difference. don't usually see that. our system is work. i don't think it will do much. but it will give us a lot of cloud cover. if there's any rain it will be tonight, tomorrow morning. a little bit of sun hither and yawn and then on the extended outlook we have cloudy skies. and then clearing thursday, next interhint of -- next hint is next week. a court date this morning in a shocking crime. a 15-year-old boy accused of killing his parents. >> reporter: thousands of

kaiser employees walking off the job all day today. we'll talk with a psychologist who says staffing at kaiser is indanerring the lives of -- endangering the lives of mental health patients. police are looking for the driver of this vehicle. we'll tell you what some neighbors saw and heard and why some of them had to evacuate. ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste? honey nut cheerios. want whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. it's a win win. good? [ crunching, sipping ] be happy. be healthy. can i try yours?

. good morning. welcome back to "mornings on 2." i'm tori campbell. >> and good morning. i'm dave clark. it's tuesday, january 31st. happening right now -- thousands of kaiser hospital employees here in the bay area and beyond are on strike. they walked off the job about an hour ago. protesting staffing levels and other iron -- other issues. lorraine blanco is live in oakland with a good look at the picket line out there. lorraine? >> reporter: well, kaiser has tightened security out here in agency of the -- inance pation -- in anticipation of problems.

members are out in full force out across the bay area at all 21 kaiser locations. the union is made up of mostly mental health and eye care professionals. the 24 walkout is about wages and benefit as well as better staffing and care for patients. we just spoke to a clinical psychologist who said the staffing situation is a major concern. >> that person's relationship with their family may be unraveling. they may be losing their job and moreover, these people are suffering. they are hurting. they are not able to carry on usual functions that most of us take for granted or get out of bed. a delay for them for five, four weeks for getting definitive care that they need to really get traction on the problem is crucial. >> reporter: and you're now taking a live look at walnut creek where dozens more are picketing over there. the building engineers' union is all out showing support.

here in oakland, altogether kaiser is expecting thousands of employees to walk out today. the hospital tells us the strike will not affect patient care. sew go ahead and if to your appointments and expect procedures as normal. we'll here more from kaiser coming up in the next half-hour to 45 minutes. coming up on 8:02. an overnight police chase ended with a crash, a gas leak and evacuations in san pablo. it happened at the rancho san pablo condominiums. allie rasmus is live where the trouble is far from over. >> reporter: good morning. the driver was traveling behind the road behind us. she was going very fast because she was trying to get away from the police. the car she was in turned into this driveway here. you can see some of the marks on the ground where the car

went through this drive lie directly into the corner of this building. now, the san pabloly, they are involved in of -- are both involved in this. we will explain why in in just a minute. this video you can see. car sus spended in midair. the back edge of it is jetting out the edge of the condo. police are still looking for the female driver and a male -- and a male passenger when in happened. they apparently took off running before the crash. it started before 9:00 in pinole. a pin know police officer tried to catch -- pinole police officer tried to catch the

suspects. >> there was gas leaking. they hit the gas tank. >> reporter: you could smell it. >> oh, yes. they asked us to go back in their our -- back in our homes. and then they said we need to you leave the area, walk down the other way to get out and said no, you don't have to leave. we shut it off. pg&e crews had to come out and shut the gas off. >> reporter: for a brief time people were told to leave. and then they could come back after police determined it was safe. so right now the police are

look fog the female driver and male who caused all of this -- looking for the female driver and the male who caused all of this. there was one man who lived in this condo who was mott able to spend the night here. 8:05. the 15-year-old boy facing murder charges for killing his parents will appear in an alameda county courtroom today for his arraignment. the district attorney says moses kayman admitted to killing the couple who adopted them. they say moses will be tried as an adult. the bodies of the victims were found friday night outside their home in oakland. moses had been in the foster care system until he was adopted ten years eang. it is 8:05. a suspected bank robber charge in the shooting death of a

veteran police officer is due in court in 30 minutes. 38-year-old henry albert smith junior of fairfield will appear in court to have a plim hearing date set. he's charged with killing officer jim capoot on november 17th. smith pleaded not guilty during his last court appearsance. well, the poms in florida are now open. the winner of the florida priferm gets all -- primary

gets all of the state's 50 delegates. coming up at 8:15 we'll bring you a live report on the results of the latest polls. back here at home, tonight, a grassroots organization plans to start campaigning for a statewide ban on plastic bags. the california public interest research group hetched ban plastic bags in alameda county. 12million bags are used over the state and only 5% are recycled. a group says the rest end up in the ocean where they lead to the death of marine life. it's 8:07. we want to check in with sal. >> reporter: you know, tori and dave, it's actually okay. there have been a couple of minor things that have popped up that are slowing drivers. let's start off with a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, not all that deep as you can see. it's baked up to the 880 other crossingle but if you look at the left from the camp coming

down. to 880, northbound and southbound, the traffic near the coliseum still has not stopped down. it tends to do that later in the morning. looking at the maps, it shows a lot of red and antioch and bay point. here's steve. very good morming. i was just checking -- morning. i was just checking. sonoma county, i found grove village is 39. i think up there near pioneer,s 38. tarn tash 39. everyone else is the 30s to

40 degrees. a lot of so clouds and fog. but some sunbreaks. the higher clouds are not that far away. they are inching closer. another system is falling apart. the bulk of it will come over it. maybe give it tom lie rain tonight and tomorrow. after that, the 5 to 10-day looks really quiet. thursday through sunday looks quiet. there's the 37 up at the sonoma county airport. some patches of fog. yet, 47 napa, 47 san rafael.

a little system did produce rain yesterday. our system doesn't have much going for it, but it will give us a lot of cloud cover later on today. we also have the lower clouds, so the combination of the two doesn't mean too much sand -- couldn't mean -- doesn't mean too much. some of the higher elevation, above the fog, though. cloudy to mostly cloudy, today into wednesday and then it's out of here. we do have machine conditions. it 8:10. the berkeley city council is considering dropping wells fargo as the city bank. some council members say that bank is at the heart barrel. beankgly has used the rank

since 2004. they've strengthened the community pie donating $3 million to nonprofits. on capitol hill, both democrats and republicans are supporting a bill to ban lawmakers from inside iter -- insider training. the giants cleared for final passage. 8:11. how tweet gets british tourists in big trouble.

. good morning. we have mostly cloudy skies. a lot of low clouds. we'll have higher clouds coming in. thank you, steve. we're following breaking news coming in now. a u.s. security official now

confirming four al qaeda militants were killed in yemen by u.s. air strikes yesterday. among the dead, the man suspected of taking part in the bombing of the uss cole in 2000. make sure you stay right here with ktvu news and ktvu.com. we'll bring you any further updates as we get them in. time no su 8:-- time is now 8:14. two british tourists were kicked out of the u.s. for comments made on twitter. security officials detained lee van brian and his friend when they arrived at l.a.x. in los angeles last week. before he left, van brian tweeted to a friend "free this week for quick gossip. prep before i go, destroy america." that message was flagged by authorities. the tourist tried to explain,

the word destroy is -- has a different meaning in the u.k. stim, they were -- still, they were sent home. mitt romney says he's likely to be the winner in the sunshine state. here's alison burns with more. >> a new survey shows romney up by 8 points. this is a look at newt gingrich a couple of hours ago, trying to rally supporters at a church in orlando. romney canceled his morning events. it's been ten days of bitter attacks between the two campaigns and there seems to be a lot of hard feelings. >> romney managed to run more false hoods. the debates are -- the reason i seen flat -- i seem flat is i've never seen a candidate for

president that dishonest. >> i know the speaker is not that excited. >> oh! >> i know. it's sad. he's been flailing a little bit trying to go after me for one thing or another. >> newt gingrich says he's staying in the raceful the end. he -- staying in the race in the end. alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. the other two republican kits, rick santorum and -- candidates, sick santorum and ron paul, have moved onto the next area. nevada and colorado. 8:17. president obama's reelection campaign is giving its staff members and volunteers the ability to take campaign foecations -- donations were their smart finances. the company called square has

developed a rare credit card leader. this is the first time it's being used in a national campaign. the city of snan wants to become the future ohm of a satellite office and mayor said chuck reed is a natural fit but the region he's producing more that kens -- but the region he's producing is more. laugh year oracle decided to discontinue its support for a heavy-duty computing microprocessor called itanium. the judge presiding over the case says no fraud was

committed. oracle was made no comment on that decision. 8:18. a new study suggests most federal workers outearn private sector employees in similar jobs. a congressional budget office report finds government employees make about 16% more in yorerall commenttation -- in overall compensation. the study found federal workers with a high school education made about 36% more than private sector employees in similar jobs. while federal employees with add varnsed professional degrees made 18% less than they would in the private sector. students and teachers spoke out last night against a plan to close a santa rosa elementary school and some accused the school board of racism. the district says doyle park amendment has poor test scores. faced with nearly $8 million in budget cuts of the school may

have to close. doyle serves a large latino population and some parents who say the kids have to transfer, they will suffer the most. >> whether the cares to admit it this is a racist area. >> we have to give layoff notices. and we have to protect that what we have is what we have. the district says doyle mark will likely reopen as the -- as the french american poddy. mosquito control agencies from all over california are meeting here in the bay area this week. they are worried that new federal restrictions could cause some big problems in in year's battle against the west nile virus. a new clean water act regulation prevents them from fogging in the areas that are marked in red, right there. those areas are now officially

designated as protected water waves. the problems don't end there. this unseasonably warm weather, that we've just been talking about, could lead to a bad west nile virus flu in the area. two giants may tell the real story of their relationship. and if have you looked -- have you looked outside yet? these are live pictures. we have another cloudy morning in the bay area.

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. it is 8:24. microsoft founder, bill gate, says his relationship with steve jobs was not as strained as the recent book made it sound. gates says he wrote a letter to the founder of apple during jobs' final month of life. gates says he told jobs he should be proud of the company he had built and talked about jobs' children. gates says jobs' widow told him that letter was by jobs' bed when he died. apple's iphone 4-s is causing problems in scotland.

apparently the "siri" has problem understanding scottish accents. some people in scotland say the feature is pretty much useless to them. one gave an example he asked how the weather was and it repeated back, what is good for labor day or something like that. >> wow. sal is easy to understand. knows all about the toll plaza. >> i like to blow up my phone by speaking other languages to it. >> spanish, french and my phone starts moecking. whoops. i better put 2 -- starts smoking-- whoops. i butter put it down. we use technology here at ktvu quite a bit looking at the toll plaza and estimates time delays. right now it's about a ten- minute delay.

it's a billion bit better than it was. you look to the left, you don't see the crowd coming in from the 880 ramp. ha means traffic is going gonna clear out earlier -- is going to clear out earlier than later. let's move to the san mateo bridge. it's cloudy but the clouds are not high enough for now to be impacting san francisco airport in a major way. we'll see what happens later on. we'll talk to steve in just a moment. we'll see -- you can see how slow the traffic is on the nimitz freeway. the road sensors are turning red and in the south bay, i think the slowest freeway would be 101 between 880 and 237 headed north. let's go to steve. i have not seen anything on flight advisory that would tell us about delays. so far, nothing yet. usually they are spot on. it's so far this -- it's clear so far this morning. there will be a cloud break from 9:00, 10:00, until about noon and then the higher cloud will start to work their way

in. 24 is a computer model on the -- this is a computer model on the forecast. now watch. the higher clouds are streaming in here by 2:00, 3:00. that will take us overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. this is a weak system. if it happens, i think it will be tomorrow morning. 39 santa rosa, to 50 mountain view and also san jose which did report a little bit of drizzle. it looks like things have km -- have calmed down a little bit. morning your best bet to get tennis or golf in. cloudy skies this morning afternoon. upper 50s to low 60s. cloudy, mostly cloudy to wednesday. and temperatures will start to warm up. there will be more sun, less clouds and temperatures will be in the upper 60s for a couple of days. 8:27. well, a scandal involving s.a.t. scores. this one is tie to a very well

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. well, good morning to you. a man has died after getting buried at the milpitas construction site. joining us live to tell us why that construction worker should

never have been at that construction site, tara? >> reporter: the chief building inspector as well as cal osha is now investigating this accident. it happened in this exclusive neighborhood early saturday mortgage actually at 10:30 when a carpenter was working on the foundation off of ridge drive. a 12-foot wall of unstable soil caved in on him. they tried to rescue him and when police and the fire department showed up it was too late to save him. police were not automobile to pull the carpenter's body out until late last night and we discovered the contractor hired to do the job was not authorized to be working on the house. three days earlier officials ordered a stop work order but the work continued anyway. we learned that the contractor

has left the country and is reportedly in china. meanwhile they could levy fines and recommend criminal charges be filed. time now 8:31, there is a new twist against san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi according to the chronicle, prosecutors claim sheriff ross mirkarimi kept his wife isolated in their home for 18 hours after at alleged abuse on new year's eve. it was to keep eliana lopez from talking to police. they said he went to a neighbor -- eliana lopez went to a neighbor's home when sheriff ross mirkarimi got into the shower and that's when she told the story of abuse. sheriff ross mirkarimi and his wife eliana lopez deny any domestic violence or abuse. they want your help to find a woman who may have been

kidnapped. two men were tweeting -- beating a woman and forced her into a car. now police searched the area but they didn't find the woman or those two men. they were driving a marine land rover. they are described as between 18 and 20 years old and was wearing a hooded sweatshirt. the man who has written for the weekly has been kidnapped by pirates in somalian. oh -- somalia. 15 men in suvs kidnapped him. they threatened to kill him unless a ransom will be paid. we will have more about somalia pirates. a police officer has outraged a hacker group.

last week he within online to express outrage on a website that promotes martial arts fights. the officer tweeted, i would go at them with both guns. the hacker group calls it a threat and they are calling for the police department to punish the officer. a fire happened in concord. take a look at that cell phone video. it happened 1:30 yesterday afternoon. firefighters found 35-year-old woman where the fire began. they say she was conscious and not breathing and self of the apartment units suffered a lot of damage. palo alto police are investigating the shooting of a teenager. it happened on the street and

the victim was shot in the foot. the suspect escaped in a green 1990 pontiac grand am with chrome wheels. if you have any information call police. we are following breaking news where a former elementary school teacher has been arrested, accused of making bond damage photos of nearly 2 dozen children inside a classroom. the los angeles police department arrested mark burns in his home last night. he is accused of committing lewd & lascivious conduct with children and there were photographs with blind folded children with their mouths taped shut. lawrence tells us live from claremont and los angeles

county, it involves phony sat scores used for school rankings, good morning lauren. >> reporter: stories like this indicate just how competitive that ranking system is. we are here at claremont college and it is ranked 9th which is a high ranking and just over the last generation it has reached elite status. the dean at admitted to inflating student's grades and sending those inflated grades to publications like u.s. news and world reports. it came out saying this ad minute straight -- this ad minute straighter and this administrator only has taken responsibility for do this and he has resigned. we did speak to some students this mourn and they say this is not good news at all.

if it changed the rank of claremont mac kenner college, it affects everyone. it was only one man's doing and it would have a great i am park on the entire -- impact on this entire cluster of colleges. the combined median score was reported as 1310 and on average it was 10 to 20 points each but it doesn't sound like much but even the smallest amount can change the ranking for these colleges and as i mentioned it is so competitive to keep their ranking or to move up in the ranks and you can see things like this may be more common. we will have to see but that's the latest from claremont

mckenna college back to you. let's check in with sal and get you where you need to go. sal? as i look here at my list, 280 is slow getting up to 880 and getting into the west valley. >> we are looking to see if something happened and i don't see it, i don't see anything on san jose freeways and this is 880 and it starts getting slower after 830. as we look at the bay bridge toll plaza, it is still a 15 minute delay and eastbound, there was a truck cleared from the tunnel and there was only one tunnel open in the eastbound direction. up prepare for extra heavy traffic in the eastbound direction, let's go to steve. thank you, sir, mostly

cloudy skies, a couple of sun breaks and it is a low cloud deck, they are stating to get to mostly cloudy days, cooler temperatures, precursor of what is coming in here, you can see it is already falling apart and the majority of it is heading northward. it will drag across giving us cloudy skies and we had some local drizzle. some sun and still mostly cloudy and they will start to come in after the noon hour and by this afternoon, 39 to 50, i have seen a couple of upper 30s there as well. 49 concord, 50 san jose, redwood city is close. 47-48 degrees and our system will not do much but it will give us a lot of clouds and not much else. we start off with the low clouds and fog and drizzle, it is kind of a low cloud drizzle.

it will be hard pressed to warm up and a little bit between 10 and 2:00. early wednesday i doubt it happens but if it does thats when it will happen. weekend is good to go if you are heading to the giant's fanfest. >> all right, thank you, steve. time is 840 testimony. the occupied protesters are planning another demonstration and city officials are hoping to avoid more clashes between protesters and police at the last demonstration. police fired tear gas and other projectiles when protesters threw objects at them. police ended undertaking 400 people into custody and now they will try to get stay away orders against protesters who

have been arrested several times before. now some are questioning when anarchists are taking over the movement. among them leslie brooks. she can'tped out at the old occupied encampment at frank ogawa plaza. >> i still firmly believe in the principals and what the occupied protesters are standing for. you don't see people tearing up a city and if they were, if we looked at the haves and have nots, oakland 90% would be what are you doing? >> she participated when they of the stated now she said the movement has split into two factions including one advocating violence. and it happened off the

italian coast, another chapter ends in a very sad story. a 24 hour strike at keizer hospital, we will have the hospital's response when mornings on 2 continues.

. some disappointing news came in including single family home prices fell more than expected in november. the nasdaq is down 7 and s&p 500 is down 4. also disappointing investors, consumer confidence fell after two straight months of big gains. the index is now down from a revised 64.8234 december and a reading of 90 indicates a healthy economy. a private research group said the strain and worries about income are reasons for the drop. the budget predicts the government will run a $1.1 trillion deficit which a slight dip from last year and still

high. annual deficits will remain in the 1 trillion-dollar range for the next several years if the tax cut slated to expire are extended. this is up-to-date on some of the other top stories following for you right now. an overnight pursuit started with evacuations at a condo in san pablo. it happened at the rancho drive which began in pinole to catch a suspected car thief. by the way the power is still out in that complex. casting ballots and the presidential primary, mitt romney has a double digit lead in the latest polls. they get all of florida's 50 delegates and look at this, thousands of healthcare workers are walking the picket lines

this morning. lorraine blanco is in oakland to explain the reason for this one day strike, lorraine? >> reporter: besides a lot of extra security keizer tells us it will be as usual today and union workers say patient care as usual is suffering because the hospitals are unstaffed making some patients wait several weeks for important appointments. the reason we don't see them is because they are moving back in the next couple of minutes and healthcare workers are out in all 21 keizer locations. it is made up of mental health and eye care professionals. it is about better staffing and better care for patients. he tells us the hospital's first priority is patient care and today's strike is

disappointing and expensive. >> it cost us $14 million for that one day of work stoppage and we are anticipating this will be as much if not more for this particular work stoppage for today. >> and here is a live look at keizer where dozens more are picketing. the building engineer's union selling support today, all together keizer is expecting thousands to walk out today. back out here live in oakland, you can see a few strikers in front of keizer hospital and the bulk who are out here are actually down the street and they are actually taking it to the streets around the community so other people can see they are on strike out here. we are told this will go on unti 7:00 a.m. and go to your appointments and

procedures as normal. ktvu channel 2 news. it is 8:48 a teacher accused of sexually a saw thing two seven-year-old girls is back in court. both his alleged victims were students at the school and the girls were blind folded during the sexual assaults. chandler strongly denies the charges. some college students may have defrauded the school when they received financial aid. they were tipped off with the possibility of fraud and the school is not sure how many people may be involved but they want to talk to some people. no queron foreman -- no formal complaint has been received. arpaio received a letter at

his home over the weekend and took it to work yesterday. part of the maricopa sheriff's office was evacuated after a white powder was found. there was a note that wrote, resign or die. they claimed the powder was anthrax but authorities say it was not toxic. vice-president joseph biden revealed he had reservations over last year's raid, and they were at a congressional retreat this weekend. he told president barack obama he wanted more evidence osama bin laden was at this pakistan compound they were about to target. he also said top advisers were hesitant except leon panetta. it is 10 minutes before 9:00 an italian officials

havened the search of the submerged portion of the costa concordia. conditions are no longer safe for rescue workers but a search will continue in the waters around the ship and the part of the ship that is above water. the costa concordia struck a wreathe and the captain deviated of course. 17 bodies have been recovered and 16 people are listed as missing but are presumed dead. today president barack obama plans to send legislation for tax breaks for small businesses. they are providing 10% tax break to add jobs or increase wages this year. it will immediately deduct all of the costs of equipment and software purchases. the legislation is based on bipartisan proposals that could win support even in an election

year. and house republicans are going into the obama administrations green energy program. the administration invested $500 million into green job training grants, but only 10% of the trainees got jobs. the assistant second of labor said the general's report used old numbers and that more recent numbers are still being don't piled. two area basketball tomb have two more losses after a bench clearing fight. the fight broke out between vallejo and bethel high schools. officials had to call the game because all the players and coaches were ejected for leaving the bench during the fight. anybody ejected is automatically given up as loss

for both teams. and the take back for redevelopment money has forced them to build a waterfront ballpark. that project was viewed as the best plan to keep the a's in oakland. it calls for new facilities for the a's and warriors. the team is apparently still planning to move to san jose. it is 8:53 tragedy at a southern california airport, a tragedy that claimed the pilot's life before the plane took off. guess who will appear as a guest on the simpsons?

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. investigating a deadly accident, a propeller hit him on a single engine plan. he was cranking the propeller when he was hit and killed. that pilot is from the san diego area. x factor, fox has confirmed that nichole will not return as a judge on the music competition show and there are reports paula abdul has been axed and steve jones is also

out. there is no word on who will replace the three. and simpsons have a controversial guest appearance, julian assange is lending his voice for an episode and he will be the new neighbor to the simpsons. he is currently fighting extradition on all facings of assault and recorded his voice while under house arrest on the phone. memorable moments from the toy story movie will hit the ice and two lucky winners will get four ticket vouchers february 22nd through the 26th and the or call arena in oakland. february 29th through march 4th. go before midnight and put in the secret word buzz

>> let's buzz on over to sal and see how the traffic is wining down, sal? >> let's take a look at how slow it is on the northbound right-hand side of your screen you can see how slow it is. san francisco 1010 that traffic looks okay as you drive to the downtown area, let's go to steve. we have low clouds and higher clouds coming in and cloudy forecast coming in wednesday morning and it is out of here and after that mostly sunny mild and warmer. >> thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news, we'll see you next time the news breaks.