. a major san francisco thoroughfare is shut down and pg&e is shut down, we will explain how those two are together. the banks are under fire, the investigation in washington d.c. today, ktvu channel 2 morning news continues. good morning, thank you for joining us, it is wednesday february 22nd, i am pam cook. >> we are ready for this traffic weatherwise, it feels different. >> we have temperatures even in san francisco, i have seen

temperatures at 47, outer sunset with the financial district, 56 baum my degrees -- balmy degrees and we will have mostly sunny weather and mid- $70 today, here is -- 70s today, here is sal. we can see slowed traffic already but pittsburgh and bay point is already looking good. northbound 101 to san francisco looks good as well. a transformer fire in san francisco has left thousands of people with no electricity. christian captain is there at the scene at the mission district, what is happening there christian? >> well, sal has been updating us all morning long because there are traffic implications and we are looking to see if we can get that information out. let's first show you, this

power outage transformer fire has affected traffic here so certainly if your commute takes you this way it will be a major impact. pg&e crews are on the scene and this whole area, pg&e on the scene and they are trying to get a handle on this transformer fire. when we first arrived here atville lense why -- at the area, we can show you what it looked like earlier. again pg&e is telling us that the fire here started at about 3:54 this morning and they are characterizing this as a transformer failure. we spoke to pg&e this morning and they called it a transformer failure and top of the poll is on fire. they tell us when they arrived

there was still sparks and there were still flames. >> the transformer was still parking and it was burning at the time we arrived here. pg&e was already on the scene so they were shutting the power to the area to the polls. why they were shutting the area, a power poll fell down and then it sparked again. >> now i just got off the phone a few minutes ago and they now say crews are managed to restore power to all but 130 customers at this time. they say the last of the customers should have power restored by 8:00 this morning and this does have traffic implications so if the commute takes you to this area it will affect your commute. for now live in san francisco,

christian captain ktvu channel 2 morning news. it has been a busy morning for firefighters in the east bay. a fryer broke out and at first the situation looked far worse. they saw a plane looking out of the roof and they say it was just a piece of art and nothing to do with the fire. red cross is helping some people following an early morning fire in oakland. they were called about 4:00 a.m. and achieve said a resident tipped over an oil lamp while making a snack. oil spread and curtains caught fire. the resident try to put out the fire but couldn't and everybody escaped and nobody was hurt. toll collectors are on

alert after two armed robberies on the bridge. you can tell us how they may pro pride some valuable crews. >> a person pulled out a gun and robbed one of these toll booth operators. they tell us they do have some good leads and now this is one of two armed robberies here on the bridge and there are plenty of surveillance cameras but chp investigators will not say what they collected on the suspect's vehicles. this is not the first time they have been targeted here. according to published reports, they have been robbed three times in december of last year. one computer told us, he has not noticed a lot of officers patrol here. >> maybe one time i have seen a cop there. >> and we just learned there

are extra people on actuality here because of these robberies. lorraine blanco ktvu channel 2 morning news. a man is recovering after being pistol whipped and shot. he was coming home with his family when the gunman approached him. he demanded money and his truck. the victim resisted and he was taken to the hospital. the gunman is described as somebody in his late teens. just before 7:00 last night officers received calls about numerous shots fired at shields reid park. when they arrived they found a man in his 20s who had been shot and was pronounced dead at the stain.

surveillance videos show him throwing a knife at the officer and toxicology tests show he was high on drugs at the time. the officer acted lawfully and in self-defense when he shot hill. the governor's new consumer watchdog agency is launching an investigation into overdraft fees by banks. they tall a racket that earns billions for the banks each year. coming up, which bank customers are more often hit. tim geithner will spell out the details of a new plan to call the corporate tax rate. they want to cut it from 35 to 28% in exchange for ending dozens of loopholes. the new tax work would offer a

bigger deeper cut and this proposal needs congressional approval. muni officials say their budget gaps will be less than $20 million for the fiscal year that starts in july. they had expected it to top 33 million but it's still a large deficit so the agency can still raise muni fares, cut service and expand parking meter hours to help close that gap. the commute is awake, sal is awake and he will help you get to where you need to go all over the place. >> yesterday we had that horrible commute, i did a report about it later and that was the metering lights were not working properly. at least the metering lights

are on and can let cars on the bridge. we had too much of a big back up. let's go out and take a look at interstate 880 north and southbound and that traffic is moving nicely in both directions and the morning commute is moving well 80 westbound between panel and richmond, let's go to steve. i just tweeted out a 47 to 60 degrees at twin peeks and the marin district -- marin district is warm. they continue to spill in a wide variety of temperatures anywhere from 40s to 60s and mostly observations do say

mostly cloudy, most of that fog should be wiped out. fair and warm, breezy at times later on. wind on mt. diablo is picking up at 60 miles per hour and that's an increase in the last few hours when it went from 51 to 69. the wind advisory starts tomorrow morning and now it goes 4:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. thursday. there are still gusts 25 to 30 but so far it is about above 1,500 feet. still it is a blustery day. 51 oakland, 53 san francisco. livermore at the airport is 60. yet temperatures around livermore range from 46 to 60 and it depends on where you are. lower 40s, napa and all the

crazy temperatures have no breeze at all. prompting 90 records today it could be close but tomorrow could be closer. today a lot of mid-70s and in fact temperatures will be warming fast, 60s and 70s along the coast and temperatures will be mild across the board. windy and warm thursday, still okay friday and saturday into the weekend much cooler especially on sunday. 11 minutes after 6:00, a lawsuit filed against the san mateo county coroner's office why one family claims the body of their loved one was mishandled. wait until you see this chilling video of a deadly shooting, the victim a sheriff's a deputy from northern california. getting ready to plant?

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. welcome back time now 6:14 they just released a 2008 shooting of a sheriff's deputy. you may find these pictures disturbing. you hear the sound, you see the video, this is video from a police squad car taken on a remote dirt road. that gunman fired 17 shots at the lieutenant deputy and he died right there at the scene.

his killer was convicted earlier this month and is now on san quentin's death row. a woman facing charges in abbas czar murder -- bizarre murder plot. she tried to kill a random person wearing if you are in what she called a protest. they stayed in contact with her for several months through facebook. she was arrested yesterday. they are launching an investigation into whether big banks are setting you up to pay overdraft fees. you may be paying more than you need to, allison? >> pam, that's right, ahead of the new consumer brewer row -- bureau, big banks like bank of

america and jp morgan were accused of making tricks to have customers pay overdraft fees and they paid big payments first and it is misleading marketing about how overdraft protection works. they say customers should look for small banks that don't charge you when you go into the red. young customers seem to be hit the hardest with overdraft fees and this investigation could read that new rules about how big banks operate. allison burns ktvu channel 2 morning news. nobody was hurt but that was after a student used pepper spray during recess. the incident happened yesterday at the element trail school.

-- elementary school. the student sprayed pepper spray and parents were called to pick up their children. police say it appears the incident was an accident. time now 6:16, a student who was on a hunger strike has died. alexander gomez died six days after refusing to eat. he along with 31 other inmates were protesting conditions. officials are making no comment on the cause of death. they are waiting for an autopsy report from the kings county coroner. gomez was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. the chronicle reports a couple is claiming negligence saying the coroner's office allowed an ambulance company to remove and dissect their son's brain after he died in a car crash. it was following a subpoena

order to turn over the brain tissue which was also sued by the man's parents. well it is a classic symptom of heart attack, chest pain but a new study suggests women are less likely than men when suffering a heart attack especially if they are under the age of 55. younger women with no chest pain were more likely to die than mail counterparts. he was bay area football coach known around the country as a friend of quarterback tom brady. tom martinez died of a heart attack at a redwood city hospital. it was his 66th birthday. the former football coach helped to guide tom brady

several years ago. martinez helped and encouraged brady again. it is tom brady's 5th super bowl appearance and he had a lot of love and affection for tom martinez. traffic is moving along well at the bay area. at the bay bridge, metering lights are on and hopefully they will be working properly and yesterday they were not. there were a couple of incidents and of course we had a commute that is very slow. we'll see if these metering lights are working properly. westbound 92 high-rise, all the way out to the high-rise is a nice looking drive. on 280 or 85, it is a nice drive so far. let's go to steve. a wide variety of temperatures, they were getting an easterly breeze and i just

heard from matthew which is out towards clayton and that's because an east wind is coming from mt. diablo. if you have no breeze at all it is probably in the 40s, we had cool monday, very cool. had that fog persisting and others warmed up while others are in on the warming trend and that will take us from today to tomorrow. temperatures again, i mean livermore airport says 60 but not far away. i have seen 51 and 46 so it just depends. napa is now 36. 53 officially in san francisco, also in the marina district and also 56 so there are some really warm temperatures around. in oakland 49, going for a high downtown in oakland and the east wind coming off oakland berkeley hills. high pressure sends everything north and east and that means

some of the higher clouds and patchy fog is there. windy thursday but not the same on friday, pam? new signs say the banking industry has more going to weaker credit card scores and standard are still higher than they were before the session. and realtors will release their reports on existing homes and they are up slightly from december. tomorrow the government reports on new home sales. time now 6:21, many say facebook is a great way to connect with old friends from the past and now it helps to predict your future. a possible face-lift for

the aging muni bus, why it is not a done deal just yesterday. westbound 80 looks good, we will tell you about the morning commute and the bay area weather, stay tuned. kçú

. traffic is moving along relatively well, those metering lights are working and we'll see if they cycle traffic properly. yesterday we had a bit of a problem and we had a backup of about 15 to 20 minutes. strong winds are making it tough to drive and the winds caused this tractor-trailer to flip over. the driver we can tell you was not heard, and more windy weather is expected out there today with 100 mile-per-hour wind gusts. those are old but they are getting a face-lift. they approved a $21 million plan yesterday to make improvements to about 80 of the city's diesel buses and that includes the breaks suspensions and transmissions. they are hoping to get that

money from federal state and local sources. the final arrest total from the mardi gras celebrations will come out today. good news, please indicate only moderate crowds and no major problems downtown. there were 70 extra officers downtown and they have cracked down on revvillers on stabbings and riots that started more than a decade ago. >> it happened inside and out. >> now there were 26 arrests last year-ending 2010. it represents a feast before fasting and today is ash wednesday with the start of lent. somebody can look briefly

at your facebook page and decide how well you will work in the workplace. they look at the facebook pages for about ten minutes. afterwards they were asking questions if they were emotionally stable. six months later they were compared with on the job evaluations. information from the review show they had a pretty high degree of matching. reports of google show you could replace some features on your smart phone. google glasses will stream realtime and be android based and sit a couple of inches from the eyes. the glasses will cost between 250 and $650. it is a final hearing in the sheriff ross mirkarimi case, what lawyers say will not happen in court today. a large police presence in this oakland neighborhood this

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. that is the opening bell, they are very excited, that is a global real estate company, they are actually the largest owners and operators of supermarket centers in the world. right now it looks like the numbers are slightly heading lower and that's after still some concern about greece and whether or not it will help them out. they will have all the business news in just a moment. thank you to you, thanks for

joining us and it is the middle of the week february 22nd, i am dave clark. the news right now police in oakland are searching for a suspect near 45th and telegraph. alex savage tells us this search is closing down several streets, what is going on alex? >> reporter: i am being told this is an active search for a shooting suspect near 45th street and telegraph. we will look at what we have seen and officers have their guns drawn and we see several officers going door to door in this neighborhood. there are several in the neighborhood even a jack in the box, but this all started where they got reports of gunfire in this neighborhood. police say they heard gunshots and officers came out and they are now looking for a shooting

suspect. we don't know who this person is or who they are looking for and police have not identified them. they are waiting to speak with the oakland police department but they are going to brief us and give us more information on this search, who police are looking for and why they are looking and we will of course stand by and bring you any updates as soon as we get them. alex savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. well the red cross is helping four people find a new place to stay following an apartment fire. firefighters were called to the area at 4:00 a.m. now the chief tells us a resident spilled an oil lamp while making a midnight snack and curtains caught fire. everybody did escape safely and nobody was hurt. a busy morning and another

fire broke out at a home in berkeley. they made it out safely and at first the situation looked far worse. firefighters arrived on the scene and a small plane was sticking out of the roof and it turns out they had nothing to do with the fire. >> everything is going really good. it was right next to -- i had a fire box where i had some things and it was outside of the range of the fire but just before i left i could hear it. so it probably blew up. an investigation is now underway into the cause of the fire. art supplies and some flammable liquid, some made it difficult for crews to battle that fire. time now 6:33 more than 100 people have no electricity after another fire involving a

transformer. christian captain is there near the district where pg&e crews are trying to deal with all this. good morning christian. >> let's give you a live look, this is a pg&e crew monitoring the scene and this truck and technician is still trying to work on that can up there. that is transformer up there. at its height that transformer was on fire and there were sparks coming out. it knocked out power to 2400 people and right now that number is about 130. i spoke with pg&e about a half hour ago and that's what they were telling me. it all started with a transformer -- transformer failure. pg&e is calling this a transformer fire which happened shortly before 4:00 this morning. san francisco fire crews were called to the scene and they

proceeded with caution. they described the scene with sparks and flames leading to the top of that utility pole. one person told me it would take pg&e all day to restore power to everyone but pg&e is saying that may be a little bit pest mystic. -- pest mystic. >> [inaudible] >> reporter: now one of the career affects this has coming back to our live look is not just a power outage, you can see that traffic is still shut down betweenville lense why and mission, we will continue to monitor the situation but we will go with more of a look of traffic throughout this area. you know that street is busy in the morning and i think

people are going around and let us know when they reopen that street. otherwise we have a problem in other areas and problems in other areas. the bay bridge, let's go right to the mcarthur maze, for the second morning in a row the bay bridge back up is better than it is. traffic is backed up around the corner of the mcarthur maze and as you can see let's go to alive shot of the toll plaza and it does appear traffic is moving through. yesterday looked at -- yesterday we looked at this shot and it appeared to be at a standstill. it does seem to be a little improved. if you notice cars are moving through at least in the fast lanes they are. the other cars are not moving through quite as quickly. let's look at the south bay commute. we are off to a decent start here. there are really not a lot of

incidents so if you are a valley computer, take advantage -- computer da come outer -- commuteer take advantage now. you can see a big old ridge of high pressure with high clouds and high clouds in the morning, 40 to 60 on the low, it is really 48 to 62 and most of those high clouds should be out of the picture sunny and breezy by this afternoon. temperatures yesterday, santa rosa was one. 66 in san francisco, 73 concord, 71 san jose, and the wind is already picking up in mt. diablo. the national weather service is issuing a wind advisory tomorrow. that will start thursday for you but it was already 35 to 60

in some of the higher elevations. more wind likely tomorrow and that will help temperatures continue to warm up. 37 in napa. temperatures around livermore. 46 to 60 and they are 47 to 71. and in the financial district, 47 so they are all over the place. a lot of 40s and most locations in the 40s. a high of 72 in downtown oakland getting a little bit of that easterly breeze. high pressure, there it is, just building in and everything is going up and over. here along with some very warm temperatures this time of year. probably not record-setting but mostly sunny it will be warmer and we have windy conditions in the higher elevations. livermore has an airport 16 miles per hour and hence those

60-degree temperatures. a lot of high clouds, looks like sunnyside up, we will take it to friday and more pronounced on sunday. sheriff ross mirkarimi returns to court for the final hearing before friday's trial. today would likely be the day that lawmakers would announce a deal to avoid a costly trial in this highly publicized domestic violence case but prosecutors and defense lawyers say they are eager to present their case to a jury. both have denied their charges. arrangement is scheduled for 2:00 this afternoon for a man accused of beating a berkeley hills homeowner to death. jordan dewitt is ill and he killed the homeowner outside his home saturday night is where this helped. -- happened.

police are defending their response time. they were called to report a trespasser on the out the complaint because they were monitoring an occupied protest and police went to the home after his wife called 911. lake county investigators released this photo and a suspicious man tried to lure two children into a truck late saturday afternoon. you can see it here, it is an olive green pick up with a light canvas top. the investigation continues. well east bay mud worked late into the night to fakes water-main break to fix a huge sinkhole in lafayette. a mother and her daughter were driving around selling girl scout cookies when their car got stuck. their van had to be towed.

this water-main break happened jed before 5:00 -- yesterday before 5:00 and water service was shut down allowing crews to make repairs. >> it could be the first in 13 years, how they could change the market for weight loss drugs. a few armed robberies in just one week. live at the carquinez bridge, we will tell you what they are looking at this morning to catch the suspect. police activity on the vicinity of telegraph avenue, we will tell you what is going on there and we will have a live report from the scene coming up.

. pg&e crews making repairs, look at this, a transformer fire in the mission district. more than 100 people have electricity but at the height of the outage, more than 2000 people were affected. at the berkeley home, an art gallery caught fire just a short time ago. look at the left of your screen. they saw a plane sticking out of the roof of the building. this is a piece of art which had nothing to do with the

fire. two firefighters suffered minor injuries and the government's consumer watchdog agency is launching an investigation into expensive overdraft fees by banks. they will investigate how the banks charged those fees which earned them billions of dollars every year. bay area toll collectors after two recent robberies on the carquinez bridge. joining us from the bridge they will tell us how cameras will provide some valuable clues. there are employees out here this morning and because of the two armed robberies that happened in just a week, if you take a look behind me you can see it is business as usual on the carquinez bridge. you can see they are in plane view but chp investigators will not tell us what they collected

on the suspect's vehicles. they say they have good leads and they are actively pursuing them. a caroled up somebody pointed a gun at the operator, demanded cash and took off. this is not the first time toll collectors have been targeted. operators were robbed three times in october and december of last year. >> it is scary. >> yes, it is. i would never have thought anybody would be stupid enough to try that. >> chp will not tell us exactly how much money was taken. >> reporter: they say they are not releasing a lot of details because they don't want to encourage any copy cats. reporting live, lorraine blanco ktvu channel 2 morning news. they are set to review a prescription diet pill right here in the bay area.

the drug too next is a has been addressed because of side effects. obesity over rides the side effects to the medication but if they agree it could be the first diet pill approved in 13 years by the fda. they held a crucial -- they will hold a crucial debate tonight in arizona. that is ahead of the primaries next tuesday in arizona and michigan but more importantly this is the last debate between the candidates before super tuesday which is when ten states will hold caucuses. rick santorum is expected to be the head of the attacks of all the other candidates. iranian officials denied a request to interview iranian nuclear scientists and they

were also barred of visiting a complex suspected of being a nuclear weapons testing facility. the u.s. embassy was shut down in afghanistan. seven people have been killed in clashes between afghanistan security forces where they are protesting the burning of holy books at a nato base. several chanted death to america and threw rocks at the american embassy. embassy employees were not hurt but they are being warned to be very careful. they are centering around bear traps. coming up on mornings on 2, how the efforts to catch a dangerous black bear are being hampered and they are saying it could put the public safety at risk. 6:48 is the time, police

activity is what we have been following, sal what can you tell us? we are looking at the activity from news chopper 2 in this oakland neighborhood near 45th and telegraph. a lot of police cars tell us it was a shooting suspect for this crime which happened just before 6:00 a.m. this morning and just a lot of police officers, as a matter of fact, there are a lot of police officers kind of waiting around so if you are in this neighborhood, the big street you can see is telegraph but this is saturated with police officers and there on the freeway is chp officers. now they have not shut down the off ramp at 51st but the police officers are there nevertheless. let's go to interstate 880, traffic is moving along relatively well getting up to the bay bridge toll plaza and by the way, the backup is a

little thick. not as bad as it was yesterday but it is a little thick. and south bay 101 and 287, you still have time to jump ahead of the crowd. a big sunrise over the big city here, a few high clouds and the wind has cranked up some of the higher elevations but temperatures are very mild yet no breeze at all, 30s and 40s but that's textbook. you can see everything is pushed off towards the east and temperatures will be on the way up today. santa rosa 76 and san francisco, although it is 53 right now and 61 in twin peeks. 71 in san jose, we had a cool cloudy monday, remember? fog on tuesday, although some areas did get the sun and warmed up. set for a few patches of fog and we will warm temperatures up today and also tomorrow.

30s and 40s to the north, and yesterday there is anywhere from 47 in livermore more alone. santa rosa 48 and napa airport 37 degrees and reported some fog as well. high pressure right there will be our fair weather friend, it will be large and in charge. tomorrow picking up in the higher elevations will be gusty conditions and already 61 miles per hour on mt. diablo. i don't think we will set any records today. most of the records were set on this date in 1985 and the record was 80 but santa rosa could be close more likely tomorrow. a lot of mid-70s, temperatures continue to warm up on thursday. saturday much cooler on sunday. pam, dave?

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. live look at the dow jones, 1258, a downgrade of greece definitely hitting the european market where all of the major businesses are down. a san jose mother is under

arrest accused of being the getaway car, margaret is suspected of attempted murder. her 15-year-old son stabbed a 13-year-old boy last week and she drove him away afterwards. police say the attack was gang related. her son is also in custody and police are still looking for another suspect. congressman george miller is adding $2,500 to the reward funds to catch the vandals of a richmond elementary school. they shattered more than 30 windows and threw paint all over. the damages could take up to a half million dollars to repair. dublin high school will welcome two stars part of a panel hosted by the school's engineering academy and will answer questions about science. last december they sent a canon

ball flying through the neighborhood. two houses and a car were damaged but fortunately nobody was hurt. they face a huge shortage in a very short time. the fcc will probably exceed capacity by next year and when it runs short, calls get dropped and data speeds slow down. let's check in with sal. we have a lot going on. one of the things i do want to mention is that the bay bridge is reported very heavy this morning, not as bad as it was, one of our tweeters said this does not look normal, cars are not moving along fast enough. this is highway 24 westbound and this looks good getting up to the tunnel and if you are driving in san jose we are off to a good start. temperatures anywhere from

30s to 60s on the lows and that depends if an easterly breeze is kicking up in fact temperatures will be in the low- to-mid 70s and we will talk about some possible records tomorrow and what looks to be a windy pattern on mornings on 2. a busy morning for firefighters, two early mornings fires in two cities. many people are now without power, we will explain, stay tuned we will be right back.