. it has been a violent night in oakland. the city of oakland has been rocked once again by a spree of gun violence since 9:00 last night. as claudine wong reports, police resources are stretched

thin. >> reporter: they were rushed to the scene as investigators tried to figure out who shot a man on his bike as he road down market street. >> went they went outside we realized somebody got shot. >> reporter: crime scene technicians worked to find out information as the market owner got back to business. a man was found shot in his car and was conscience when he was taken to the hospital. >> we got a call that there was a victim suffering a gunshot wound somewhere in the area so my officers located him and sent him to the hospital. we don't have a lot of information but we are still investigating the case. >> reporter: officers were trying to investigate a shooting at the corner of 44th and international where a group of people fired on a passing car. everybody fled that scene and that was at 9:15 p.m. p.m. p.m. just a few hours -- 9:15 p.m.,

that was just a few hours after just days after eight people were injured. this violence does not come with easy solutions. >> everybody has to be involved. >> reporter: police say at this point it does not appear these crimes are connected which makes them harder to solve and the trend harder to stop. in oakland claudine wong ktvu channel 2 morning news. >> the first shooting happened on international boulevard. two hours later a man was shot on davis street. another man was hit at 4:00 a.m. and a 8:00 a man was gunned down at 24th and market street. despite this, the new anticrime program is working.

>> the results we have seen have been very affective and there is going to be increases and there is going to be decreases and as we identify where the crime hot spots are we will plan our resources to address that. >> the 100 block program has been in place for four months and involves multiple law enforcement agencies. meanwhile they are investigating a possible crime this noontime. a body was found in the oakland hills. new at noon, joining us live from the area, rob you have learned some important new information? >> reporter: you can see they have this area taped off. this the where the oakland police homicide unit has been called in and police have not released much information. chopper 5 has taken pictures from above and a 78-year-old man was found dead inside his

home. a friend came by at 7:00 this morning, they saw the body and called authorities. we saw police question a man put him in a patrol car and drive off. witnesses say if that is not relative to the case we don't know how he died but we spoke to a neighbor a short time ago. >> we see an all full lot -- an awful lot of home break-ins. there was one in berkeley the other day and it is quite scary. >> reporter: it was a 78-year- old man an apparent victim of a homicide. the u.s. military is trying to figure out what caused two helicopters to collide during a training exercise killing seven marines. it happened over the chocolate mountains at 8:00 last night.

the crash involved a super cobra attack helicopter and utility chopper. the aircraft were from camp pendleton and california and six marines were based there and the 7th marine was reportedly from yuma. the bay area is in for a summary day. a wind advisory is in effect for the north and east bay hills until 6:00 tonight. the strongest winds are expected in the hills of alameda and contra counter counties. we will have the full forecast coming up in ten minutes. crews are about to be cleaning up some disturbing vandalism that police are calling a hate crime. it happened at the union church and live where you have been

talking to parishioners and investigators, what are they telling you? >> reporter: well we are not talking about random graffiti, some very disturbing images of vandalism and they are waiting for the go ahead. members of the church is expecting visit from the diocese to take stock of the damage and given the healing process. they replaced the wooden cross knocked over by vandals. they hope to send a message of their own, despite pentagrams and spray paintings in latin they will not have a lasting impact. >> that is not god or the church, somebody wants attention. >> reporter: early yesterday morning, a church caretaker discovered the vandalism. somebody painted mary and joe self black but left the figure

of jesus untouched. it shocked many wondering who could be responsible. >> father just said pray and we must forgive. >> reporter: it all happened on ash wednesday, the start of length and police are calling it a hate crime. they are based on several leads from the noon if i but they have no suspects so far. meanwhile many returned to st. anns for mass to continue preaching and practicing forgiveness. >> we will pray for the lost souls. >> this is a sign -- >> reporter: just about 30 minutes ago, jeffery started blessing the new cross and we just heard from police again in

the last hour. this has generated more tips from the public, ktvu channel 2 morning news. firefighters had some new ammunition to fight the new rate of breast cancer. they donated 13,000 dollars to the firefighters prevention fun. firefighters gave us some frightening staff particular particular -- statistics. 13.6% of that age group compared to 1.5% nationwide. gina says a dozens of people are exposed to together since. a we know we object sort is not just our eyes our hands our skin you are knack.

a spent t-shirt comes in both pink and blue. a devastating loss happened after a fire gutted their home. a neighbor saw flames racing through the house overnight and called 911. at first fire crews were concerned that the four people who live in the home may have been caught in the fire. the cars were in the driveway but the search turned up no sign of anyone inside but now they have learned the family has been on vacation in china. >> we have good news, nobody was injured everybody is safe and the only thing we have lost is the structure itself. >> investigators are still trying to determine what caused the fire. firefighters had to hold it against bees.

when they got there they 400 dreads of bee hives on fire. they tried to fight the firefighter without getting stung, no words on that. local students wanted to take classes there. >> we will have more on the record warm team talk coming your way. a major address in alameda, we will tell you why he is worried about the coast guard and why he decided to break tradition.

. as a result it knocked out power to 6700 homes. that the hour all but 100 customers had their power restored. the head of the u.s. coast guard is in alameda where he just wrapped up his state of

the coast guard address. he will deliver the address outside of washington d.c. he decided to give the speech in alameda so that three national security cutters could be at the backdrop. they tried to expand i had needs with similar ships with growing demand. >> we know that the ships aircrafts and boats will just not shape but in large part will define the coast guards next 50 years of capabilities. >> and many of them were built during the vietnam war and need to be repaired or replaced. one elementary school has been warned about a possible norovirus outbreak. teachers sent parents letters

about the outbreak and urged them to have them wash their hands frequently. the superintendent told us the campus was thoroughly cleaned over the weekend. superintendent is suing a redwood company claiming they illegally charged customers. they called special towing and their owner. they towed cars from private lots without the owner's permissions charging excessive fees totaling more than 24,000 dollars. >> the university has received more applications than it can accept. so school leaders have to raise admission standards. santa clara residents have been exempt from cuts in the past. if they got in they were

exemplified. if they did not get in, they were not allowed. >> the fact that i just feel it is unfair, the school should be getting it because everybody needs an education. >> hundreds of south bay application cans are -- application can't are on -- applicants are on hold until they figure out a plan. he won the equivalent of the nobel prize. he is a test pilot and has logged more than 27,000 hours in more than 300 different types of planes, now he is nominated for the trophy which is presented each year for the greatest achievement in arrow not particular and at throw not particular. >> we need to look at the list of the people who have been on there. >> previous winners include

howard hughes and apolo 11. it can fly a record 400 miles on one gallon of fuel. from san francisco -- some san francisco children got their hands dirty helping to mark a milestone for the parks. dozens raced, dug and planted this morning at st. mary's park. it was the kid's 500th tree planning at this park. >> we want to teach the kids open space sustainability and pro texting the earth. >> the tree planting project is to encourage stew war ship of -- stewart ship of san francisco's parks and it is funned by the department of environmental protection.

he some very warm -- some very warm temperatures, here is a look outside. looking at the golden gate bridge, we have a little bit of some chop on the water and we have been dealing with some water on the east bay hills. still lots of sunshine and temperatures are already warming back up. as far as records, as you can see, it is february dealing with temperatures getting back up and february 23rd, for today, the record is 78 degrees. we could be approaching that. san francisco it could be tough to beat that 80 degrees and san jose could be beating record levels once again over the next few hours. you see warm numbers, san francisco upper 60s and napa in one of the warmest locations and san jose reporting mostly clear skies and 70 degrees. in addition to the warm temperatures, winds have been increasing especially out in

the north bay, winds are coming out of the north and fairfield a sustained air speed at last checked 6 miles per hour. we did have a wind advisory for the north bay hills and east bay hills until 10:00 this evening and ranging from 45 to 50 miles per hour in fact on mt. diablo it is ranging at 3500 feet and the most recent ranging at 50 miles per hour. winds will gradually back off late into the evening hours. some bigger changes beginning friday as the area of low pressure moves in from the north. by saturday, warmest locations will be in the 60s and we will be on sunday maxing out to the upper 50s. enjoy the upper 70s by 3:00

this afternoon and still by 6:00 clear -- 6:00 clear and mild in the 60s. here is a look at the warm numbers, in santa rosa upper 70s oakland 74, san jose tops out 76 and these temperatures will check in aroun 3:00 or 4:00 this afternoon. with your weekend always in view, still plenty of sunshine and still mild by friday. temperatures cooling off by sunday with readings mainly in the mid-to-upper 50s with a sun cloud mix but that whole weathercast, i did not mention that, the forecast continues but it will be cooling off this weekend. bryan stow's lawyers are laying the groundwork for a new lawsuit against the los angeles

dodgers. dodgers fired 300 security members, it was a brutal beating and dodgers are partly to blame due to a lack of security. they filed an earlier lawsuit shortly after the attack but the case was put on hold when the case was put on bankruptcy in june. the san jose earthquake hopes to break ground following a usual mouse vote. it will be next to the san jose airport. last night a vote upheld a planned development program and denied an appeal made by a neighborhood group. somehow raised concerns about lights and traffic. they want the 18,000 seat stadium opened by next year. a warning by the fbi that could affect your access to the

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nasdaq up 23 and s&p 500 is up 5. with the labor department reports 350,000 filed for first time unemployment benefits and that's the same numbers from the week before. california had the biggest decrease in applications showing the job market is improving. the chronicle report shows mayor ed lee wants to increase homes for low income housing. state development funding is going through and he is reportedly hoping to put the issue on the november ball lot.$♪. >> two weeks from today, half a million people in the u.s. could find themselves cut off

from the internet. it is all because of a group that affected computer worldwide with trojan mall wear they got a court order to operate a set of surfers to all -- servers to allow affected servers to stay online but anybody who is still infected will not be allowed to access the internet. the meeting comes just days after apple's stock hits an all time high but he is likely to face questions. another topic is the trademark battle that says it owns the rights to the name i-pad. we will show you the one thing many people were tempted

to do today. plus nasa is retooling for private space exploration and there is evidence of it in the bay area. thank you for choosing ktvu channel 2 morning news. always we are always here on www.ktvu.com, have a great day and thanks for watching. comfort couldn't hurt.

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