we're live in walnut creek, where police say this man is stalking a young girl. we'll tell you what he asked her and what they did. >> a long police standoff in france is over, the first photos of the suspected terrorist and what investigators are searching for now. >> we're live in oakland, where hundreds of people are getting free medical and dental care. we'll tell you where you can get it and what kind of help you can get. >> pluses, why the electricity

will go out in parts of vallejo in an hour. how pg&e says it will help businesses affected by the outage. mornings on 2 begins right now! good morning. welcome to mornings on 2. it is thursday, march 22nd. topping our news this morning, a warning for children walking to school in contra costa county. tara moriarity is live in walnut creek where police are looking for a suspicious man who seems to be stalking a young girl. tara. >> reporter: that's right. this is a copy of the sketch that police have jumped released and they say this man is responsible for stalking a 13-year-old girl. one of the encounters he had with her was right along this trail. it's called ironhorse trail, and it runs right next to her school. the alleged stalker is described as a white man in his

60s, about 6 feel tall, medium build. he has short gray hair, high cheekbones, tanned skin, pierced ears and accent. he was driving an older model red sedan with a disabled placard on the rearview mirror. the 13-year-old girl attends walnut creek school and the first time she was approached she was getting off the bus when the man pulled up alongside her, asked how far she was walking and offered her a ride. when he asked where she lived she ran off and the driver fed away. now the second time it happened near at the trail back here live when the girl was walking with a friend and there's quite a distance between the two locations, but police believe this man is indeed stalking this little girl. if you have any information or recognize that sketch, contact police or the contra costa county sheriff's office. tara moriarity, ktvu channel 2 news. the mother of a missing morgan hill teenager is asking

landowners to search their properties for potential clues in her daughter's disappearance. family and friends held a vigil yesterday to pray for sierra lamar's safe return. the 15-year-old has not been seen since friday, when she left for school. no significant evidence has been turned up from her cell phone or laptop, but the search continues. another vigil is planned for sierra tomorrow night. in another missing persons case, the search has been called off for martha guitterez of gilroy, but friends continue to hold daily vigils. investigators say forensic evidence indicates guitterez was killed by her son abel, an iraq war veteran with post- traumatic stress disorder but they have not found her body. he killed himself amp murdering his 11-year-old sister last week. new this morning from france, we have more information now about the shoot- out between french police and an an islamic gunman

barricaded 32 hours inside a building. authorities ended that standoff, they stormed into the suspect's apartment. coming up in about 15 minutes, we'll get a live report from france. we'll show you the first pictures of that gunman, plus conflicting reports about how he died. back here at home, we know the car involved in an early morning police chase was stolen. the chase started just before 2:30 on castro valley and foothill boulevards in castro valley and ended less than 20 minutes later, on cayley avenue in oakland. the chp says the chase began when the car failed to yield. when the car finally stopped, both the passengers and the driver jumped out and ran away into a nearby neighborhood. police organized a search, but the two people were never found. happening now, volunteers are hard at work inside the oakland coliseum, where a free

clinic has been set up for people in need. lorraine blanco was there as the doors opened an hour ago and joins us live with the services offered. >> reporter: we just talked with the the founder of this free health clinic, stan rock told us this is his 663rd free event. he says the need has been become greater and greater for the last few years. now, inside hundreds of people are getting their initial consultations, patients having their blood pressure checked and answering a list of questions about their health before they get to meet with the doctor or dentist. more than 200 local medical officials from kaiser signed up to volunteer their expertise this weekend, cleaning teeth, do breast exams and pap smears and provide general care and vision. it's hosted by ram california, remote area medical. they started offering free health decades ago in foreign countries, then started helping here in the u.s. in 1992. the founder, british born stan

rocking tells us it's rewarding work but he won't equivalent any credit to himself. >> it's hard to explain how one feels at an event likes this because it's sad you have to have it. but what is great for the volunteers is that somebody gets out of a dental chair and have had their teeth fixed, or they get a pair of glasses and they put them on and say, wow! i can see! >> all right. check this out, there's even a hug station here, and that's resulting in a lot of big surprise smiles. the clinic goes on through sunday, and people are getting tickets for services early as 3:30 a.m., each morning. help is on a first come, first served basis. reporting live, lorain blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. happening right now, repair crews in san francisco are wrapping up work on the sewage leak. our cameras are there live. we're above ground, this is at

the embarcadero between mission and howard streets. look at the guys working there. you can see them for yourself. we told you about this problem out there yesterday, on mornings on 2. the workers had to put on protective suits. they brought their own oxygen supply to protect them as he went undergroundworking with gases. they were told the leak was about a thousand feet under that manhole cover. you've got to drink a lot of water to be out there. this is not easy, tori. the sewer line carries about 80% of the waste from the northeast side of the city to a treatment plant, but we understand again all of these hardworking guys there, they're wrapping. their work on that sewage leak in san francisco. we'll keep you posted throughout the morning. back here at home now, revised plan calls for the port of san francisco to prepare rundown piers for the america's cup race. at first race organizers have planned to spend more than $100

million in upgrades on piers 30 through 32, in exchange for a long-term development deal. but that deal fell apart. the latest proposal was introduced on tuesday and scales back some of the repairs with the port, spending about $8 million to partially fix up the piers. the board of supervisors won't debate all of this next tuesday. all right. it's 7:07. and we want to check in with sal, get an update on the commute. >> good morning. it's been a little busy, especially on the eastshore. earlier crash is gone, traffic still recovering on 80 westbound, coming out to the macarthur maze. also the morning commute is going to be okay here on interstate 880 in oakland. the traffic is going to be busy as you are driving out towards the coliseum. no major problems there. and the morning commute has been pretty busy in antioch. highway 4 of course, but also bay point, slowish traffic there, 680 between concord and

walnut creek, couple mikor incidents. now the upper east shore doing well. we have an accident on highway 37, near the fairgrounds. we got a tip from bill, who sends us tips from vallejo, westbound 87 at the fairgrounds arc a collision, chp has arrived on the scene. now let's go to mark. >> good morning. we are starting out this thursday morning, plenty of cloud cover out there, some drizzle and even a few light showers, as a very weak system moves across the bay area. but still enough to wet some. roadways. as far as the coverage, not a lot to show you. some action to the north and east of cal toga is about it. even if you're not covered you could till have drizzle in the short-term. forecast for today, some morning drizzle, winds pick up into the afternoon hours. tomorrow partly cloudy and then into the weekend, we will be tracking multiple rain clouds and a big dropoff in temperatures. current numbers, just updated,

you can see the upper 40s to 50s. santa rosa 48. hayward 54. and san jose right around 50 degrees. here's the weather system responsible for today's cloud cover. at least for the morning hours. santa rosa picked up/300" of rain over the past 24 hours so nothing too significant, but still enough to at least keep the umbrella nearby in the short-term. partly cloudy skies into the afternoon hours, and wind speeds pick up this afternoon from 15 to 25 miles an hour. our forecast models showing cloud cover this morning, so here we are at 7:00. and also the chance of drizzle or a few sprinkles out there. we'll take this into friday, you'll notice we're dry tomorrow afternoon with partly cloudy skies. there's not a rain shield beginning to move in and it will move in early saturday morning. the first round of some rainfall, so plan on rain possibly heavy first thing saturday morning, off and on rain into the afternoon, and into the evening hours. and the cold unstable part of that system swings in on sunday. as a result we do introduce at least the possibility of an

isolated thunderstorm. this morning, at 8:00, clouds and drizzle. temperatures in the 50s. by lunchtime, the sun-cloud mix, 55 around 60 degrees. and then wind speeds pick up, especially coastside and right around the bay. winds coming out of the west in afternoon. as the temperature range most neighborhoods in the upper 50s to the 60s. everybody cools off a good 5 to 10 degrees from yesterday's warm readings. pacifica 57. san francisco 58. san jose 63. and here is a look ahead. your 5-day forecast, the weekend always in view. tomorrow fairly quiet but we bring in more rain clouds by saturday. showers likely for sunday with a possibility of an isolated thunderstorm. >> all right. thank you, mark. location matters. two california men are thrown in jail because of what they did while on a caribbean cruise. also, deep in republican oil country president obama makes a big announcement this morning, why it's connected to sky rocketing gasoline prices. and a very tight squeeze, a

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good thursday morning. a weak system crossing the bay area, producing some clouds and drizzle and also some areas of dense fog, especially coastside. reports of dense fog around watsonville and monterey bay. some changes for the afternoon. i'll have more on that in a few minutes. time now 7:14. after began president karzai says his government is closely examining every detail of the proposals for afghanistan's strategic deal with the u.s. president karzai also repeated a pledge that any deal will have to respect afghan sovereignty. the agreement will lay out rules for american troops who stay on after most of combat forces leave afghanistan in

2014. both afghan and u.s. officials say they want the deal signed by a nato summit in may. also happening right now, in washington, the senate armed services committee is holding a hearing on the progress of the war in afghanistan. we're looking live at general john allen. he is the top u.s. commander in afghanistan. he is testifying as you can see and hear. on tuesday, general allen told lawmakers on the house armed services committee the relationship between nato and the afghan security forces remains strong, despite recent incidents like the killing of those 16 afghan civilians reportedly by an american soldier. president obama is deep in republican territory today. as allison burns reports, he is in oklahoma this morning to respond to his critics of his energy policies. allison. >> reporter: tori, in about 40 minutes president obama will be announcing that he is ordering

fast track approval of part of an oil pipeline from oklahoma to the gulf coast. his two-day energy tour is intended to rebut charges he stifling energy production in the united states and contributing to high gas prices. he toured a solar plant in nevada and a drilling field in new mexico yesterday. >> we're growing all over the place. that's one of reasons we've been able to reduce our dependence on foreign oil every year since i took office. >> his pipeline announcement today would remove a bottleneck in the oil transportation system, but oil companies and republicans in congress want much more. they want quick approval of the rest of the keystone pipeline that would bring oil from canada through the u.s., in fact republican leaders are holding a news conference about it shortly after the president starts speaking in oklahoma. allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. your time is 7:16.

two california men tourists on a caribbean cruise made an unexpected stop, jail. they were arrested yesterday for having sex on a gay cruise that had stopped on the island of dominica. a witness on the dock reported it to the police. now sex between men is illegal in dominica. the company that organized the cruise anticipates men will be released later today. an attempt to overturn new hampshire's two-year-old same- sex marriage law has been defeated. the republican controlled house in new hampshire voted against repealing the bill. the state's democratic governor said he would veto the bill if it arrived on his desk. the same-sex marriage law was passed by the new hampshire legislature back when it was controlled by democrats. later today san francisco bar pilots will try to turn around a ship that is as long as the empire state building is tall. this is the 1200-foot fabiola.

yesterday afternoon it became the largest vessel to ever enter the san francisco bay. the ship carries 30% more cargo than other container ships. bar pilots say this is good news for the local economy and the industry. >> back in 2006, when the economy was great, a lot of big shipping companies but in orders for vessels this size, and they're just starting to come online now. it's a big boon for the shipping companies. >> today presents the biggest challenge for bar pilots. they will attempt to turn the ship with just 100 feet of clearance on each side. it will then begin its 18-day trip back to china. new this morning, french police are looking for possible accomplices of a gun man who confessed to a deadly rampage throughout the country. officers ended a marathon standoff by storming into the suspect's apartment earlier this morning. reporter diana joins us live

from france. good morning, diana. >> reporter: hi, tori. you're right, it was incredibly dramatic. we as the press weren't able to get a bird's-eye view but could hear the gunfire, and we then found out what went on, basically the commander units went in, they had had no sign of life from the suspect mahommad merah for a good eight hours. and they went in cautiously. he wasn't in any of the rooms, and finally he burst out of the bathroom, shooting incredibly violent. heeding this operation he said he had never seen anything as violent as that. and merah jumped off the balcony and was killed by police with a shot to the head finally, a horrific end to a story that has kept -- captivated and horrified really this spate of serial killings carried out by this gunman. because of the lengthy discussions he with the chief negotiator, discussing whether

he was going to turn himself in or not, discussing why he killed three paratroopers and the children in that jewish school. and talking about how he recorded all of those killings and the prosecutors just said they found the videos, truly horrific videos, him running up to three paratroopers, for example, saying, you killed my brothers! now i kill you! you know, he had a lot of weaponry, still in that flat. he was making molotov cook tails. this do have gone on longer but france will be breathing a sigh of relief that this man is now gone. tori. >> diana, live from france, thank you. also new this morning, al- qaeda now says it was responsible for killing an american teacher in yemen. the group just posted the claim on a militant website. witnesses say joel sham was gun down sunday. he was accused for trying to convert muslims to

christianity. he was from pennsylvania and was learning arabic and teaching english while living in yes, ma'am went his wife and children. time is 7:20. we always talk about the weather, ready or not. the weather is here! we're looking outside of our window. look at the sky. up next mark is here to tell you when the next storm will hit the bay area. and the book is a bestseller, now the "hunger games" movie is breaking records before opening nationwide. >> good morning, northbound 280 slow traffic into the valley. we'll update the south bay commute. ♪

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welcome back. the highly anticipated movie the "hunger games" opened in theaters tomorrow but it's already breaking records. fandango reports more than 2,000 theaters all over the country are already sold out. that ticketing company also says "hunger games" is already beaten the first "twilight"

manufacture's pre-sales numbers. "hunger games" is based on the bestselling trilogy by author suzanne collins. people are hungry for it. >> i read the book and you know who recommended it to me, steve paulson. and he busy on -- but it's a fascinating story. very compelling. let's check in with sal now. i'm not going to dash off and see the movie tomorrow. >> no, you can probably wait. not going to be making a line to see it. >> no. >> let's look at the commute now, you can see san francisco some of that weather moving in, and it's been drizzly, a really rainy and someone drove out to our newsroom here saying it's pretty wet in the east bay as well. windshield wiper weather throughout. so please give yourself plenty of time to get to work, little more time than you might think. also this morning we're looking at the bay bridge toll plaza from emeryville, backed up for a 15 to 20-minute delay.

on 80 westbound we have slow traffic from richmond as you drive out towards the berkeley area because of earlier problems. 7:24. let's go to mark. like a wet sponge over the bay area now, the clouds, the mist and drizzle and even a few light showers. but in terms of a major storm pushing through, that's not the case this morning but still we have cloud cover to contend with, primarily for the first half of the day. not a lot of coverage here but even if you're not covered, you can still have some wet roadways out there and enough to trigger the windshield wipers and reports of fog and drizzle right around the bay. just be extra-careful especially crossing the bay bridge in the short-term. here's a radar and satellite. the source of the overcast over the past few hours, so that the cloud band will continue to move in and as a result will keep the possibility a few showers in the forecast for this morning. and then for the afternoon hours, partly cloudy and breezy, so things begin to change this afternoon. temperatures will be cooler than yesterday, about five to 10 degrees with cooling, san

jose right around 63. and a look ahead, your 5-day forecast, with your weekend always in view. tomorrow looks dry but more rain clouds for saturday, fit thing saturday morning showers likely with a possibility of thunderstorms by sunday. there's shock and sadness in brentwood. we'll tell you what happened there in this normally quiet community. >> the sun is up but the lights are about to go out in parts of slay slow. we'll tell you why and how long the outage will last. >> some say pros tuition is blatant and out of control in san jose. but they have an interesting plan to reclaim their neighborhood. [ female announcer ] here in california, our schools need help.

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it's coming up on 7:29. in just about 30 minutes, things could go dark for hundreds of residents in vallejo. pg&e planned an all-day outage for parts of city as they replace a power pole. claudine wong joins us live now at the site of today's work. good morning, claudine. >> reporter: good morning, tori. this is the power pole that they're going to put in to replace one that is getting older. we're on mountain view street and you can see they've got columns up to make room for the equipment they'll need to make this happen. this is going to happen apparently in the next hour or so. the cones say 7 a.m. this morning. so we do expect people out here very soon. we have seen some traffic,

managers out here to shut the street down. we've talked to residents here about this power outage. they'll be affected with a couple hundred other residents and businesses in and around the neighborhood. about this outage today will last the whole day, and they say how you are affected by it depends on what you have planned for your day. >> for me, it hasn't been a problem. and i haven't heard anything from anybody else on the street. they've been really nice as far as i can tell. they'll go by and wave. >> now, for a business over on tennessee street, it's a little different story. it's an ice cream shop and they need power to operate their business so the owner told the paper he will be shutting down today because the outage makes and impossible for him do his job. i also got a message from someone on facebook who was going to telecommunicate today but instead has to drive to san carlos to work because he can't work without power in his home.

so depending on how you are, what you have planned for the day, this will have varying impacts. you don't have to worry about light in your home during the day. but again, for the folks overhead on mountain view, there will be a lot of activity expected to start here within the next half our or so. the power outage will start 8 and end at 4:30 tomorrow couple of outages while they update equipment as well. sometimes these outages just need to be part of the process. it's 7:31. in brentwood a mother and father are dead in an apparent murder/suicide. last night the coroner's office removed two bodies from the home on fin way. police say they received a call yesterday from the couple's teenage daughter who found her parents in a bedroom. police say both suffered gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene. police are not saying who was the shooter.

the parents' names have not been released but police say they were in their 40s and they had two children. >> the first thing that came to my mind is, brentwood? it don't happen here in brentwood. this is a better community. raise your children, safe place. safe haven. >> police are now searching for clues to explain what led to that horrific scene. time is 7:31. oakland police searching for a you haul truck involved in a drive-by shooting. last night about 11:40, someone fired shots out of a u-haul truck on international boulevard. a man was wounded in his chest and his hip. we don't know his condition now, but he was awake and responsessive when taken to the hospital. investigators are not sure yet if he was the intended target. a stockton police officer was wounded in a late night shooting. it happened last night when the officer tried to carry out a check on cold drive around

10:00. the stockton record reports the suspect accused of shooting that police officer was also wounded by gunfire. both of them are in the hospital. right now we don't know their conditions. they're calling a central valley man a hero. brian watts was driving in stockton yesterday when he saw a car crash into a large garbage truck. the driver of the truck was killed instantly. the truck driver survived but was trapped inside his burning truck. while others looked on, watts rushed in and pulled the man to safety. >> you hear him yelling for help, that's it. i'm in. >> the truck driver was taken to the hospital with only minor injuries and watts says it made his day to know someone walked away from the crash. and also some good samaritans to tell but in santa rosa. they helped a cyclist who this collapsed due to medical emergency. they spotted a mountain biker

unconscious on a trail yesterday evening and got help. medics say the man may have suffered a heart attack and had to be airlifted out. there's no word on his condition this morning. later today suspended san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi is due to attend probation orientation for court ordered class on domestic violence intervention. mirkarimi was served papers yesterday accusing him of official misconduct. monday he was sentenced to three years probation for the false imprisonment of his wife on new year's eve. meantime, vicky henson was sword in as the interim sheriff, the first woman to head that department. >> this is not necessarily a celebration of me becoming sheriff but it is me agreeing to be sheriff so that we can get the work done. >> the city's ethics economics will investigate the official misconduct complained against mirkarimi, then submit its recommendation to the board of supervisors.

alleged attacker and reported lover is due in drug court this afternoon. he faces charges underrelated to allegations he assaulted lockyer, the supervisor, at a hotel in newark last month. his lawyer told the san jose mercury news yesterday chi canny and lockyer were in a relationship last summer when she visited him in jail. lockyer is married to state treasurer bill lockyer. a cousin of oscar grant is now suing the city of oakland for $10 million. last month 24-year-old tony jones was shot in the back by oakland police officers after trying to run away from them. they had pulled over his car, claiming the vehicle was seen at an armed robbery. jones' attorney claims police used unreasonable force and the attorney says the department tried to cover up the circumstances surrounding the shooting. outrage over the shooting death of trayvon martin is

spreading. martin is the unarmed teenager shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain in florida. coming up at 7:48, the action taken dense the city's police chief and the federal agency now launching an investigation. time is 7:35. a group of san jose residents say a hotel crackdown is needed to deal with prostitution. they marched on south first street yesterday, calling on police to take new action to curb prostitution in the area. they want the city attorney to use public nuisance laws against hotels where the prostitutes work. >> i live right downtown, and i want my city to be pretty. i don't want no prostitutes in my backyard or front yard. they've got to go. >> the hotel clerks deny there's prostitution in their hotels. councilmember sam lacarteo says he is working on the issue and encouraged citizens to write down, document what they see. a camp friar is now blamed

for one of the largest wildfires in santa cruz mountains. the 2009 lockheed fire took 11 days to contain. it burned almost 8,000 acres. cal-fire now says embers from a fire pit near a remote cabin set off the fire. cal-fire has interviewed the property owner but says there's not enough evidence yet to arrest him. starting next month, anyone parking in downtown walnut creek will not need to carry change for the meters. walnut creek is installing 1,000 new parking meters that will accept credit cards or coins. city leaders hope the high-tech meters will' eventually allow drivers to use their smart phones to check for available parking and pay for parking spaces. with just 10 days left in the month of march, it looks like another year will go by without a mavericks surf contest. organizers say the conditions needed to create the giant waves probably won't happen before the window for the

contest closes at the end of the month. it will be the second year in a row without a surf contest. fans can still get symptom tastes of the competition. a mavericks festival is scheduled for march 31st in 98.7 county featuring food, music and pro-surfers. meantime, on land, final preparations for this weekend's oakland running festival. here's video from last year's run. later today a news conference and lunch will be held to welcome all the bigwigs. this year oakland's expecting 8,000 runners of all ages from 40 states, even six countries. first group will start running at 7:30 sunday morning, at lake merritt. >> hopefully the weather will cooperate. let's check in now with sal for an update on the commute. sal. >> we're looking at the commute, things are getting better out there in some areas. 880 northbound looks good. this slowdown usually doesn't start until later opso we'll keep watching it for you.

east bay, we don't have anything reported on 880 or on 580. but we keep watching -- let's move and look at the commute here on 237. we do have stop and go traffic crossing 880, and continuing out to danker road. and the morning commute on 80 westbound is slow. if you're -- going to move down to hayward and union city we do have slow traffic and a couple fender-benders, southbound 880 near industrial, westbound dumbarton bridge, couple fender beners there. and then we're moving to contra costa county, highway 4 seems to have recovered. southbound 680 near stone valley road, there's also a fender-bender on the shoulder. :39. let's go to mark. the clouds we have tracking all morning since 4:30 this morning, clouds beginning to lift as you can see here but we still have fog, some drizzle and the possibility of a few light showers. not all the shower activity or drizzle picked up by radar. you can see little activity out to the north and east of st. hennena but you can still have

wet roadways. forecast headlines for today, fog and drizzle this morning, chance of showers. tomorrow partly cloudy and then the real rain returns this weekend. so could be tracking rain for the oakland marathon. at least right now the rain clouds looks like they will be moving in. as far as temperatures, everybody warmed up yesterday but today we go the other direction. we're going to cool off 5 to 10 degrees from wednesday's readings that. means livermore 62, san jose down to 63 degrees. all because this system moving in from the pacific. it's fairly weak but strong enough of course to generate the clouds we're dealing with this morning. as we head into the afternoon, skies becoming partly cloudy and those onshore winds do pick up. so looking towards the owes this afternoon, if you're out towards ocean beach or stinson beach, looking out, you might see white caps offshore because the winds are forecast to increase. all these numbers going up as we take this into the afternoon hours at 1:00 and then at the 4 and 5:00, winds from 20 to a 25

miles an hour. strongest coastside and right around the bay. temperatures, everybody cooling off. noticeably compared to yesterday's readings. and that means warmest locations in the low to mid- 60s. look ahead, your 5-day forecast, tomorrow will be dry but we will be tracking rain clouds as early as saturday morning off and on rain for saturday and once again more showers, could be moving into the region on sunday, even the slight chance of an isolated thunderstorm on sunday as well. we'll be watching out for that. but for today, just drizzle in the short-term. >> all right. thank you, mark. it's 7:41. new numbers out this morning reveal about the u.s. job market. also we're learning the explanation for the mental breakdown of a popular filmmaker and why it could be months before he returns to work. >> people aren't stupid. >> how the etch-a-sketch made us its way on to the campaign trail as mitt romney's rivals pounce on a comment by a romney advisor.

stocks opening lower on more signs that china's economy is weakening and europe is slowing. also the average rate in the u.s. on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose above 4% for the first time in more than three months. the dow is currently down 63. the nasdaq is down 13. and s&p is down 9. the signals from overseas are overshadowing another encouraging jobs report here in the u.s. the number of people filing for initial jobless benefits sank to a four-year low last week. the labor department says the number dropped by 5,000, to 348,000. and that's the lotted lowest level since february of 2008. it's a strong sign the job

market is strengthening. first time unemployment claims have steadily fallen since last october. overnight, soldiers in the african country of mali took over the presidential palace and announced they're now in control. soldiers were seen carrying televisions and other goods they looted from the presidential palace. there are conflicting reports on where the president of mali is on state tv the soldiers imposed a nationwide curfew telling people to stay off the streets. the soldiers say they took control because they are unhappy with the government's handling of a rebellion by an ethnic group in the northern part of the country. new this morning, the suspect in that horrifying crime spree in france is dead. but the terror he caused may not be over. pam cook is in our newsroom following the developments. >> reporter: this may not be over because they're now looking into the possibility that the suspect had

accomplices. at 3:30 this morning our time we received the report that the suspect was dead after that standoff that lasted two days in toulous, france. police say he jumped to his death after he stormed the apartment. they are now saying he was shot in the head. that's the sound of the gunfire that officers exchanged with the suspect who was hiding in the bathroom of the apartment. he again died after that. earlier this morning, french television released that, amateur video believed to be of that suspect. a criminologist says there were warning signs. >> he brandished a sword andes there's a complaint to the police which had been recorded in 2010, so a lot of signals that -- might have alerted the intelligence services on this guy. >> he is talking about the signals on the suspect who has

been identified as 23-year-old mohammed merah. again investigators this morning looking in the possibility that he had accomplices, but we don't know why they think that. in our next hour i'll talk more about the video that that suspected killer took of the shootings. reporting live, pam cook, back to dave. >> thank you. doctors are saying they know what caused the mental breakdown of popular online filmmaker jason russell. russell directed the now famous kony 2012 video about that african warlord. he is in the hospital this morning after being diagnosed with a mental condition known as psychosis. that means he displays sudden psychotic behavior. last week he was running through the streets of san diego naked in some points, and screaming in coherently. his wife is blaming stress. she says it will take months before he can go back to work. his movie has 84 million hits

on youtube. the police chief of stanford, florida is asked to step down over the fatal shooting of 16-year-old trayvon martin. yesterday the city's commissioners passed a no- confidence vote against the chief. they say he has not properly handled martin's case. martin is the unarmed african- american teenager who was killed four weeks ago by a neighborhood watch captain. the watch captain has not been arrested and outrage is spreading across the country. this was the scene last night in san francisco, as more than 100 people protested the situation in florida. protestors claimed this was a racially motivated shooting. the shooter, who is listed as white on the police report, says he shot martin in self- defense. the justice department is now launching its own investigation. san leandro police looking for a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in her own home. the suspect broke into the home

on bridge road tuesday afternoon. police say he forced the woman into her bedroom at knife-point and sexually assaulted her. the suspect fled. police say the woman was targeted but the victim says she does not know the attacker. the new key endorsement for republican presidential candidate mitt romney, former florida governor jeb bush announced he is throwing his support behind romney. bush says it's now time for the republican party to unite behind mitt romney. meantime, mt. mit's republican rivals are just pownsing on a comment made by a top romney advisor who compared the presidential campaign to an etch-a-sketch. that aide was asked if mitt romney moved too far to the right in the primary, he said that everything changes in the general election when you can shake it up and start all over again. both newt gingrich and rick santorum say that comment shows how mitt romney changes his

position on issues. the fate of san francisco's gold dust lounge is still in limbo this morning. yesterday the historic preservation commission deadlocked on whether to designate the gold dust lounge as a landmark. but one of the commissioners was absent so they plan to hear the matter again on april 4th. the owners of the gold dust want landmark status to avoid eviction. the landmark -- the landlord, rather, once to put a clothing store in the space. time is 7:50. the most popular day for romance and breaking up, interesting trends found in the love lives of facebook users. tremors in the night, the unexplained phenomenon underground that is shaking up a sleepy town. [ female announcer ] here in california, our schools need help.

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medical marijuana dispensaries was doomed from the beginning. you're looking a little infrared video from a police helicopter showing a man and three teenagers sneaking into a medical marijuana dispensary in santa ana. one of the suspects got trapped inside a rooftop vent. all of them were captured. and by the way, the owner of the pot club was watching all of this on security cameras at his home. it's 8 minutes now before 8:00. california has been working on an early warning system for earthquakes for five years. but the progress is very slow. japan, mexico, turkey and taiwan all have warning systems that can give cities even just a few seconds to prepare for a big quake. but the experts say progress on a similar system here is so slow, it's hard to say when it might be operational. and the reason for the delay, they blame a lack of funding. people in wisconsin are hearing and feeling mysterious booms. they've had four straight

nights of unexplained noises and shaking in the town of clintonville. scientists don't think these are earthquakes. police have gotten hundreds of calls about strange sounds from underground that sound like fireworks or thunder. >> three booms and then one good shake. >> all night long we're hearing this going on. >> a geologist at the university of wisconsin says there are no known earthquake fault lines in the area. officials plan to bring in vibration detection machines to try to find the epicenter of any underground activity. new info from facebook about interesting new trends about the dating habits of facebook users. the highest peak for romance is valentine's day. that's -- we know that. april 1 is the philadelphia the biggest day for new relationships strangely enough, april 2 is a popular day to break up. and the days of the week, sundays, mondays and tuesdays

are the biggest days for new relationships, while friday and saturday are the best days to break it off. >> we're heading into friday and saturday! >> i know! >> all right. let's check in with sal on the roads this thursday morning. >> you know, on our ktvu mornings on 2 or facebook page, i posted interesting question -- in case you want to check it out. >> okay. >> good morning, everybody. let's go out and take a look at was we have on southbound 101. some slow traffic in morning coming through marin county. it's backed up from novato near highway 37, dried off a little bit but it's been drizzly in parts of the commute. also looking at the commute here if you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza. it's about a 15-minute delay. nothing too major, and once again on to the bridge it looks okay. and this morning's drive in contra costa county, highway 4, remains slow. highway 4 again from bay point is slowest to highway 242.

nothing like yesterday, though. 80 westbound near san pablo road they're still clearing an accident to the shoulder. let's go to mark. >> good morning to you. we have the clouds, the fog and some drizzle across parts of the bay area. even if few light showering a very weak system moves in but already you can see what should be happening, clouds beginning to lift and that will fit the stage for a partly cloudy afternoon. right now in the radar nothing too impressive but even if you're not covered could still have a ton of low level moisture in the form of drizzle and still enough to wet parts of the bay area at least in the short-term. but things will be changing as we head into the afternoon hours. a closer inspection of the radar and satellite. you can see the weak system from the north and the clouds a factor in the short-term. temperatures this morning low to mid-50s. and then into the afternoon hours, skies becoming partly cloudy, 57 to around 63 degrees. temperatures this afternoon, about five it 10 degrees cooler than yesterday's warm readings. that means san francisco right around 58, vallejo at 60.

san jose 63. and your 5-day forecast, with your wand always in view, and for your friday partly cloudy skies, tomorrow could be a pretty nice day but then the clouds thicken up late friday, first round of rain movers in saturday morning. off and on rain saturday. and then by sunday, some scattered showers, could be heavy at times, with the possibility of a thunderstorm. so there's another system on track to move in just in time for the weekend. today skies are partly cloudy and breezy. another weather check coming up in a few minutes. the "american idol" journey keeps going for san jose native deandre brach son. ♪ ♪ >> last night he and the other contestants sang the music of billy joel. and the pressure was really on. one of the judges steven tile letter told them, if you can't sing, billy joel, you can't sing at all! tonight one of the top 10 finds out which one didn't make the cut. you can see who makes it to the

next round right here on ktvu channel 2. "american idol" begins tonight at 8. then make sure you join us tomorrow morning right here on mornings on 2 with tori, we'll be joined live by whoever gets kicked off. >> but they've all made it to the concert series. >> yes. >> they're in the top 10. so that's good. it's coming up on 7:58. it's the case that caused an uproar in a berkeley community, the man suspected of beating a man to death outside his own home. >> reporter: parents of students at walnut creek school received an e-mail with this man's sketch. we'll tell you what is has to do with the 13-year-old girl. >> reporter: free dental work and free prescription glasses. we'll tell you about the services you can get for free at the oakland coliseum today, when mornings on 2 continues.

good morning. welcome to mornings on 2. it's thursday, march 22nd. terrifying story this morning, a suspicious person following a little girl. ktvu's tara moriarity is in walnut creek now where the

police want your help tocatch an alleged stalker. tara. >> reporter: police have just released this sketch and believe this man is responsible for trying to lure a 13-year- old girl into his car last wednesday. then the very next day, the girl was walking near her school on a trail which runs behind it. she spotted him again. the alleged stalker is described as a white man in his 60s, about 6 feet tall, medium build. authorities say he has short gray hair, high cheekbones, tanned skin, pierced ears and has an accent. >> it's always surprising when something like this happens, especially around here. it's a pretty safe area. but we get e-mail alerts from the principal of the middle school any time there's a stranger problem like this, and i've talked to my about it many times. they don't talk to strangers, and i'm sure it will get taken care of. but i guess it happens

everywhere. >> reporter: the 13-year-old girl again attends walnut creek school and the first time she was approached she was getting off the bus on crest avenue, when the man tried to entice her into it case. the second time happened on ironhorse trail when the girl was walking with a friend and there's quite a distance between these two locations so that's why police believe she was being stalked by the man. tara moriarity, ktvu channel 2 news. the mother of a missing morgan hill teenager asking landowners now, search your properties for possible clues in her daughter's disappearance. family men's and members and friends held this vigil yesterday, praying for the safe return of sierra lamar. no significant evidence has turned up from her cell phone or her laptop computer, but that search continues. and another vigil is planned for sierra lamar tomorrow night. in another missing persons case, the search has been

called off now for martha guitterez of gilroy. but family members and friends continue to hold daily vigils. investigators say forensic evidence indicates miss guitterez was killed by her son abel in an iraq war veteran. police say abel guitterez killed himself after killing his 11-year-old sister last week. it is coming up on 8:03. the chp says the car they were chasing early this morning was stolen. the chase began when the car failed to yield just before 2:30 a.m. on castro valley and foothill boulevards in castro valley. it ended less than 20 minutes later on tule avenue in oakland. when the car stopped, both the passenger and driver jumped out and ran away into a nearby neighborhood. police organized a search but the two people were never found. in less than an hour, a mental excepty hearing scheduled for the suspect

accused of killing a man outside his home. the suspect, 23-year-old daniel dewitt, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia according to his parents. he is charged with the beating death last month of 67-year-old peter outside his house. criminal proceedings against dewitt were suspended so doctors could conducts mental examination. and a memorial fund in memory of suecore has been set up at uc berkeley. it was established by his family and they will ultimately decide what to do with the contributions. happening right now, a free health clinic right inside the oakland coliseum is open, up and running, from providing health care to the needy. lorain blanco was there to tell us how volunteers are making a big difference for people who really need it. lorain. >> reporter: good morning, dave. volunteers are now working at full speed inside the coliseum.

it's pretty amazing when you take a peek inside and see how this free clinic is just so efficient and organized. after the initial consultation, most patients are ushered into the dental triage. you can see dozens of reclining chairs and departmentists and surgeons hard on the work. doing everything from cleaning to extractions and fillings. more than 200 local medical professionals from kaiser volunteered for this event. doctors are performing breast exams and pap smears, also screening for i could beats and offering free hiv testing. the four day event is hospitalized by ram california, remote area medical. organizers tell us they get just as much benefit from the clinic as their patients. >> there's an energy that is here by the afternoon that you can't describe it. and you leave feeling like you're the luckiest person in the world, whether were you the patient or the volunteer, because you got to be here and be part of this. >> reporter: you can also

receive free vision care here. you can walk away from a free pair of prescription classes. the clinic is going on through sunday. services on a first come, first served basis, but right now the line is not close to what it locked like this morning. so this is a good time to stop by the oakland coliseum. lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. happening now, repair crews in san francisco are wrapping up work on a sewage leak. this is new video taken above ground at the embark dereko between mission and howard streets. several workers patched up the leak overnight. we first brought you live coverage yesterday on mornings on 2. some workers wore protective suits and brought their own oxygen supplies to protect against underground gases. a diver talked about the special equipment he took with him, including a 27-pound safety helmet. >> on top of the stress of hanking the hose and dealing

with -- being clinched over in the pipe, 27-pound weight on your head some your neck muscles are straining. >> the leak was about a thousand feet below the manhole. the sewer line carries 80% of the waste from the northeast side of the city to a treatment plant. police have issued a second arrest warrant for a man accused of a double homicide in fairfield. 18-year-old marcel rutherford chu is suspected in the shootings this month at a condo complex. the first arrest warrant was rejected after police determined there was not enough evidence to link him to the homicides. meanwhile, they arrested a 21- year-old vallejo man in sacramento this week, also in connection to the shootings. the viejo school board slashing its budget by almost $6 million. that means class sizes will be bigger, some jobs will be eliminated. transportation from home to school for elementary school kids will also no longer be

available. san francisco residents who think they've been the victims of fraud can now call a new hotline. the city's district attorney set this one up for cases involving workers compensation insurance, elder financial fraud or mortgage real estate fraud. you can see it the numbers on your screen at the top there. any tips can be made anonymously in either english, cantonese, mandarin and spanish. it's 8:08. we want to check in with sal, and apparently some traffic air delays at san francisco airport? >> you have to bring out the angry birds to play because it's going to be plenty for about an hour and for an hour and 20 minute delays because of low ceilings and clouds. so just watch that. and make sure you -- plan for that. let's go out and look at northbound 280 up to 880. that traffic is moving along

relatively slowly but that's normal for this time of morning. just in cases you first day commuting. northbound 87 little slow traffic there as well. this morning's commute on 237, we have some slow traffic which is typical but when you get to 10 one it's been not all that bad today. show you the bay bridge toll plaza is little dryer than it was, it was definitely windshield wiper weather for a lot of the morning but now it seems this front seems to have passed. but why take my word for it? let's dry in mark. >> i can agree that confirmation, the front is passing across the bay area, still quite a bit of moisture in place towards the san rafael area. we have overcast out there and the drizzle. and the rainshowers not really amounting to much on live storm- tracker 2 now. but you can still have some drizzle, enough to wet the roadways in the short-term.

forecast headlines for today, we do have this, with drizzle out there, bit of a breeze kicks in this afternoon. tomorrow skies becoming partly cloudy and the weekend, i'm tracking another storm. that is still set for saturday and into sunday. current numbers, updated and really not much change since the 7:00 hour. you can see mainly in the upper 40s to the 50s. san francisco 52. livermore 53. and fairfield 54 degrees. it was the warm yesterday. look at the cbs. 60s and eye few 70s out there for livermore and san jose. everybody comes down a good 5 to 10 degrees from yesterday's warm readings. that will translate to upper 50s to the low to mid-60s for this afternoon. here's the weak system we have been trying to describe here moving across the bay area. basically just falling apart but still enough to produce strong enough to produce the drizzle this morning. partly cloudy skies into the afternoon hours, and once the clouds begin to break, wind speeds pick up and winds can be from 15 to 25 miles an hour. here's our forecast model showing you some of the cloud

cover and some of the drizzle this morning. as we widen occupant the perspective we'll put the clock into motion. friday will be dry but look what happens into saturday. first thing saturday morning the first round of rain moves onshore. at least moderate, could be heavy at times. and then a little bit of a break but still more rain throughout the day offer and on on saturday into saturday night. and then even into the second half of weekend on sunday we could track some cold showers and the possibility of a few thunderstorms. temperatures this afternoon, upper 50s to low to mid-60s. san jose right around 63. 5-day forecast, with your weekend as in view, you'll notice saturday rain-cloud off and on rain. showers likely into sunday. and we'll still hold on to the chance for monday of next week. as we speak, president obama is in oklahoma, announcing a new oil pipeline, why republicans say the president's actions are still not enough. >> and some miracle --

incredible video of a u.s. army helicopter crash in afghanistan. >> also next month starbucks will offer a new drink that has coffee in it, but it's not supposed to taste like coffee. yes.

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mornin' melt breakfast sandwiches. subway. eat fresh. good thursday morning. still tracking a few clouds and some pockets of drizzle, a few light showers but not amount to go much. but still enough to wet the bay area roadways. cloud cover, skies becoming partly cloudy this afternoon. you have to see this.

look close. from afghanistan, a u.s. army apache helicopter flying low over buildings and turns around, slams into the snow. amazingly, the two crewmembers onboard survived. and no one on the ground was hurt. army investigators are looking into the cause of that crash. afghan president karzai says his government is closely examining every detail of the proposal for afghanistan's partnership deal with the u.s. president karzai also repeated a pledge that any deal has to respect afghan sovereignty, laying out rules for troops that stay offer an the majority every forces leave afghanistan in 2014. both afghan and u.s. officials want the deal signed by a nato summit in may. happening right now, general john allen, the u.s. commander in afghanistan, is

briefing the senate armed services committee about the war in afghanistan. senators have been asking general allen this morning about the pace of the withdrawal of u.s. troops. allen said he would make a recommendation later this year based on the progress of the war. senators he says the u.s. will still need significant combat power in that country next year, despite calls for reducing the force. the southern california man who is playing with intercepted by fighter jets during president obama's california visit last month has been arraigned in court. the 43-year-old long beach man was charged with marijuana possession and transporting it for sale. air force jet fighters forced his plane to land after it strayed into president's no-fly zone near the los angeles airport. the secret service says president obama was never in danger. president obama right now is in a republican stronghold this morning. he is trying to sell his energy policies. allison burns in our

washington, d.c. newsroom, telling us about the big announcement the president is making this morning. allison. >> reporter: dave, let's get right to a live look at a pipe storage yard in curbing, oklahoma. president obama is running about 20 minutes late but expected to announce here he wants federal agencies to fast- track approval of a 485-mile pipeline. this is part of his energy tour that took him to new mexico and nevada yesterday. republicans are running during the trip trying to counter the message that he is boosting u.s. energy production. >> then and now, the difference, he restricted oil production in the gulf, limited development of american oil shale. >> the oil industry and republicans in congress say the president's pipeline announcement today is not enough. they also want him to okay the northern section of the

keystone pipeline to bring oil from canada through the u.s. republican leaders are actually going to be holding a news conference about that here on capitol hill in just about 20 minutes. allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. it's 8:17. chevron now faces criminal charges in brazil over an oil spill last november. a federal prosecutor says the oil spill from a chevron drilling platform affected the entire maritime ecosystem off the brazilian coast. chevron disputes the charges. it says it stopped the leak in four days and none of the oil that spilled into the atlantic ocean ever reached the brazilian coastline. a plan calls for the port of san francisco to repair rundown piers ahead of the america's cup race. originally race organizers had planned to spend more than $100 million in upgrades on piers 30 through 32, in exchanges for a

long-term development deal. but that deal fell apart. the latest proposal introduced on tuesday scales back repairs with the port spending $8 to packsly refurbish piers. the board of supervisors will discuss that plan next tuesday. starbucks will introduce a new line of natural energy drinks next month. they're fruity carbonated drinks that will use on roasted green coffee extract to give an energy boost. but it won't taste like coffee. they'll be calledders are. each 12-ounce can will sell for about $2 at starbucks grocery and convenience stores. a u.s. drugmaker very close to wrapping. a deal to buy out one of its rivals. sources say watson pharmaceuticals is offering almost $6 billion for octave us of switzerland. it would get watt continue for a bigger worldwide presence. active us is the fourth largest

generic drugmaker in the world. a palo alto medical foundation is hit with a $22 million malpractice verdict. the money will go to 48-year- old robin frankel of menlo park. she was seeking treatment for migraines and suffered a stroke in 2006, while undergoing a procedure that her attorney says was unnecessary. the 22 million-dollar judgment is thought to be the largest in santa clara county history. the medical foundation could decide to appeal. nfl commissioner roger goodell cracks down on the saints' bounty program. head coach sean payton suspended for a year and that means losing $7.5 million for lying about the bounty system to take out players on other teams. former defensive coordinator gregg williams, who was behind the scheme, has been suspended indefinitely. and the general manager has

been suspended for eight games. the team was also fined a half million dollars and will lose a specked-round draft pick this year and next year. after hours of financial wrangling, the broncos and jets have finalized a deal to send tim tebow to new york city. he was trade today the jets in next month's draft. the broncos decided to tray tebow and he will back up starting qb mark sanchez. now you have tim tebow in injury me lin in the big apple! right now the biggest container ship it in the port of oakland. what it will take today to prepare this big ship for its next journey. >> good morning. right now traffic on highway 4 is improving, as you move over to concord from the bay point area. not a bad driver. we'll tell you more about the morning commute and the bay

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about 30 minutes ago, we learned that bar pilots will not attempt to turn a large container ship until early this evening. this is the fabiola passing underneath the golden gate bridge yesterday afternoon. the 1200 foot container ship is the largest vessel to ever enter the bay and dock at the port of oakland. bar pilots preparing for the

past year and a half to safely guide the big ship through the shallow waters of the bay. >> they have been getting bigger but business a big jump. in tonnage. it's a hundred feet longer than the ships we're during now. >> today comes the biggest challenge, with only 100 feet on each sidebar pilots will attempt to turn the ship around at 5:30 this evening. and you can be sure we'll cover it this evening on our 5 and 6:00 news. then the ship will begin its 18- day trip back to china. >> great story! let's check in with sal. you're watching 280 and all of the roads. how we looking? >> a brand-new problem in san francisco at mission and first, in san francisco. it's a crash between a bus and i truck there. mission at first is right near the end of -- not embarcadero so it's busy. we'll let you know and i might

be hearing some police radio traffic about that right now. we'll get an update for you coming up. this is a look at 280 in san jose, kind of slow getting into the valley today. also slow on 85, but it's not like it was yesterday. so today we're having a better day. looking at the commute on interstate 880, that traffic is beginning to slow down approaching high street. contra costa county, pleasant hill, southbound 680, stop and go traffic, still slow from walnut creek down to alamo. now let's go to mark. >> good morning to you. we have been tracking the clouds and drizzle and even a few light showers across parts of bay area this morning as a very weak system moves into the state. but the clouds already beginning to lift in some spots. you can see towards the oakland estuary and the clouds will continue with at least a lift into the afternoon hours. right now on live storm-tracker 2, not a lot of coverage with the action beginning to shift north and east. i have been watching the winds over the past few hours. you can see the strongest winds

offshore gusting to 27 miles an hour. but the stronger winds will gradually move onshore as we head into the afternoon hours. you can still count on the clouds and the possibility of drizzle or a few light showers. take a look at the winds. here's some of the forecast numbers, you'll notice they go up as we head into the afternoon hours by 5 winds from around 19 to 24 miles an hour up towards point reyes. for this morning, clouds and drizzle, a chance a shower. low to mid-50s. this afternoon, partly cloudy and breezy. temperatures will be cooler than yesterday, warmest maxing out in the low to mid-60s. san jose the forecast highs 63. half moon bay 58 degrees. look ahead your 5-day forecast tomorrow nice with partly cloudy skies, but there's another weather system moving in for the weekend. that will generated some rainfall first thing saturday morning. showers likely into sunday with a possibility of a thunderstorm. dave. >> time now is 8:27. disaster striking for a local

cyclist, a helicopter rescue that happened at a popular park. >> reporter: the power is about to go tout in vallejo has pg&e takes on the that power pole behind me. this will be a job that takes all day long! >> also a violent night for a family in the normally quiet community of brentwood. ♪

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brief outages, so what is going on and how long will this last? >> reporter: tomorrow will be a short outage, it's only a half hour in the morning and half hour at night. and replacing equipment up grading it. but today it will be a longer process. it starts any moment now. they'll turn off the power and be replacing that power pole in that backyard. not an easy job to do it, they're going to need this huge crane that they're now putting into place basically going to put that crane over that power pole, lift it up and over the homes. that why this outage is going to last from now until about 4:30 this afternoon. who will be affected? this neighborhood, as well as some businesses over on tennessee, which is a fairly busy drive through vallejo, about a handful of business there. in total we're looking at about an estimated 270 or so people affected by this operation. pg&e says we're got to get this

done so they have warned people over the last couple weeks that this will happen. residents say it will keep their refrigerators buttoned up tight and try to get through the day and get through it. they obviously do it during the day because the operation takes lace during the day and makes things easier for people, don't worry about -- just pull up the lines to get through the day. that said, we talked to some residents who had to drive into work instead of telecommute, businesses are planning on being closed so it is having an impact today, pg&e saying those folks can provide claims to them if they're thinking they're losing business. you can see -- one last time the crane about to go into place. they told me the power would go out at:30, so it's hard to tell from our vantage point but it's going out any minute and it will be out until 4:30. it is 8:32.

we are following developing news in the case of a missing teen. the santa clara county sheriff's just told us five minutes ago that there have been some new developments in the case, but we understand they are not significant developments. we do know more searches are planned today. the mother of a missing morgan hill teen is asking landowners to search their properties for potential clues in her daughter's disappearance. ktvu has a crew on its way to morgan hill to cover these new developments. again, they're not significant. we don't believe that the child has been found. we'll have the latest information in our news at noon and online at ktvu.com. time is 8:33. police in brentwood want to know what led up to an apparent murder/suicide involving a husband and wife. late lasts night the coroner oars office removed both bodies from the couple's home on fin way. police say they got a call yesterday afternoon from the

couple's teenage daughter. she found her parents in a bedroom. police say both had basketball shot and they were pronounced dead at the scene. >> i'm in shock. i'm devastated. my heart just feels broken and there's something in my stomach that can't explain the feeling. >> the names the parents have not yet been released. but police say they were both in their 40s and they have two children. oakland police are searching for a u-haul truck involved in a drive-by shooting. last night around 11:40, someone fired shots out of a u- haul truck near 48th and international boulevard. a man was shot in the hip and chest. we don't have his condition. but he was awake and responsive when he was taken to the hospital. police are not sure if the victim was the intended target but they found no signs of a robbery. we're learning new details about a police shooting in

stockton late last night. authorities now say a man has died after a shoot-out with police. an officer was also wounded in the incident on colt drive. police say officers were talking with residents near a high school about a homicide that happened on monday when gunshots rang out. officers returned fire, shooting a 19-year-old suspect who later died at the hospital. the wounded police officer underwent surgery and is said to be stable. mountain biker had to be rescued from a state park in santa rosa. he was found unconscious while a trail in state park may have suffered a heart attack. the cyclist described as being in his late 50s or 60s, airlifted out of we have no word on his condition this morning. later today suspended san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi is due to sustained probation orientation for court ordered classes and domestic violence intervention. mirkarimi was served papers yesterday accusing him of

official misconduct. on monday he was sentenced to three years' probation for the false imprisonment of his wife on new year's eve. in the meantime, vicky hennessey was sworn in at interim sheriff. she is the first woman to head that department. >> i've had the privilege of working with sheriff hennessey for quite some years, and i trust her, i know her. i know that she will be a great leader for our sheriff's department. >> the city's ethics commission will investigate the official misconduct complaint and submit their recommendation to the board of supervisors. the man involved in a scandal with supervisor nadia lockyer is due back in court today. he is facing drug charges unrelated to allegations he attack lockyer at a newark hotel last month. he has been romantically linked to lockyer. the san francisco chronicle reports a sex tape of the two was given had her husband, state treasurer bill lockyer.

new this morning, information on the deadly shoot- out between french police and an islamic gunman who barricaded himself for 32 hours. authorities ended the stand offby storming into his apartment. coming up in 15 minutes, pam cook reports on the gun battle, how the suspect died, and the videos of his rampage he posted online. a campfire is now being blamed for one of the largest wildfires in the santa cruz mountains. the 2009 lockheed fire took 11 days to contain and burn nearly 8,000 acres. cal-fire now says embers from a fire pit near remote cabin ignited the fire. cal-fire has interviewed the property owner but says there's not enough evidence to arrest him. leaders here in the bay area and around the state want to bring high-speed rail here forecasted faster and say they have a plan to do just that. local political leaders say they're willing to split the 1

1/2 billion dollar cost to electrify the caltrain line. that could mean commuter trains would be zipping between san jose and san francisco by 2018. could also mean the statewide system would be running sooner than expected. we're told the money is available, but state lawmakers have to approve it first. caltrans is scheduled to close a part of highway 17 near laurel curb in santa cruz county this morning. the report says it's part of a plan to install a temporary barrier at a high traffic, high collision area. for example, there was a deadly crash last week that will take two days to complete this work. the caltrans is trying to get the job done before we get the next round of storms. >> and that video is from last week with all the rain. not raining yet. sal. >> we're starting there because traffic is still busy and right now it starts to get really

busy on interstate 880 north. you can see it if for yourself. it is beginning to slow down as you mentioned already, since we've been on the air at 4:30, it first started off kind of being wet and then kind of moved through. and now things are getting dryer. here we are about four hours later, and things are a little better but the traffic is slow. also the morning commute, the drive on westbound 92, that traffic is looking good. but you notice the overcast, planes are delayed into and out of san francisco international airport. one and a half delays. so make sure you can check why your care we're and always gets this way when the weather is this bad. livermore to castro valley, 580 looks good. 880 slow from union city to fremont. and south bay, slowest traffic now is on 101 between san jose and sunnyvale. now mark. >> earlier this morning we're tracking some drizzle, few slight showers, and now we're seeing more fog regrouping and as a result impacting the

visibilities across parts of the bay area. very weak system moving across the northern parts of the state. not very impressive on live storm-tracker 2 but you can still have drizzle and some wet roadsways. for today, morning drizzle and once again some fog coastside and around the bay. tomorrow partly cloudy, and the weekend rain will -- big rain clouds return for saturday morning, off and on for saturday, and then into the second half of the weekend as well. so that's a real storm that will be a big factor. santa rosa the cool spot, 48 degrees. concord 54. and san jose last check reporting 52. yesterday very warm, look at the 60s and 70s across the region for santa rosa. san francisco, livermore and san jose. everybody coming down a good five to 10 degrees from yesterday's warm readings. so you will notice that change. all because of this guy, this week system moving in for today. it's we have been track this is sprinkles, drizzle out there, even a few light showers.

partly cloudy into the afternoon. once the front moves out we'll see a stronger breeze, already taking a look at some of the surf cameras offshore. you can see it at least for the beaches already chop out there. winds will continue to regroup and could be from 15 to 25 miles an hour this afternoon. here's the wider perspective into friday. you can soon we'll be dry but then saturday morning the first round of rain pushes into the region. still the rain rotating around the area of low pressure for saturday afternoon and into the evening hours. possibly some thunderstorms, the chance for the second half of the weekend. today we'll be cooler, san jose a forecast high of 63. 98.7 60. and a look ahead, your 5-day forecast, with your weekend always in view, partly cloudy for friday, there's that rain cloud for saturday. showers likely for sunday. another weather check in a few minutes. auditions for the second season of "x factor" have kicked off and the show's creator and judge has some advice for anyone hoping to

make the cut. >> one future pop stars, attitude, personality, originality. >> solo and group singers, 12 years and older, are invited to try out. the person or group who wins the show will take home a $5 million recording contract. you can find out if you have the "x factor" at san francisco's audition. registration to get a bracelet with a time is held april 18th and 19th at the cow palace. then on april 20th, open call additions are held for anyone without a bracelet. >> we talked to simon, we its do a duet. >> i don't know. >> two california men arrested on a cruise ship that caters to gay passengers. the reason they were handcuffed and taken to jail. and amazing pictures of a gigantic boulder, it rolled down a hill, straight into a house. yes.

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unemployment benefits was 348,000, that is a 4-year low. the dow is down 81. that is down 17. s&p down 10. this morning conagra reported third-quarter earnings jumped 26%. the maker of peter pan peanut butter, healthy choice meals and slim jim snacks reported a profit of $271 million. the company says lower operating costs and increasing prices helped offset higher raw material costs. the conagra says the price hikes have hurt its sales volume. today is the official launch of the next installment of angry birds, and it looks like the famous seattle space needle is playing a central role. something is hatched to the tower, confirmed on twitter that some kind of launch of is taking place today. but the company is not saying exactly what will happen. the new game will be available on apple and android devices, as well as pc and macintosh

computers. up to date on some of the other top stories we're following right now. just a short time ago, santa clara county sheriff's deputies told ktvu they have new clues in the search for missing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. however, they stress they are not significant developments. the search will continue today. the teenager's mother is asking landowners in the area search their properties for possible clues in her daughter's disappearance. a free health clinic has been set up right inside the oakland coliseum. it's open now. it's for people who need dental, vision care, even acupuncture. this was a free health clinic. it runs through sunday. one thousand tickets are given out every day, beginning at 3:30 in the morning. and a warning today for school kids heading to cool in walnut creek today. police have issued a sketch, this one here. a man who tried to lure a 13-

year-old girl last wednesday and thursday in the area around tice valley boulevard. residents on high alert. new this morning, the terrorist attacks in france may not be over. even though the suspect was gunned down early this morning. ktvu's pam cook is in the newsroom with concerns the gunman may have had help with his killing spree. pam. >> reporter: it was a dramatic end to a long standoff in france, just about five hours ago. that's the sound every gunfire, officers exchanged it with the suspect as they stormed the apartment where he was hiding for two days. an elite team of police officers wanted to take him alive. but they say he was firing his gun wildly when they came in. they say he then jumped from a window, still firing, but was finally shot and killed. the suspect has been identified as 23-year-old mohammad merah.

a criminologist says there were warnings signs about him years ago. . >> he been dished a sword and there's a complaint to the police which had been recorded in 2010, so a lot of signals that should or might have alerted the intelligence services on this guy. >> now investigators this morning say this may not be over. they are now looking into the possibility that he was working with accomplices but have not said why they think that might be the case. they also say he did videotape all three killings that he is suspected of and posted those videos online. they say his motive, to avenge the deaths of palestinian children and to protest the french army's presence in afghanistan. officers are now reviewing that video. they say the suspect can be heard saying, you kill my brothers, i kill you! i'm pam cook, back to you. >> thank you.

new this morning, al-qaeda says it was responsible for killing an american teacher in yemen. the group al-qaeda in yemen just posted the claim on a militant website. witnesses say joel slum was gunned down sunday. the group accused him of trying to convert muslims to christianity. slum was from mountjoy, pennsylvania. he had been learning arabic in teaching english in yemen with his wife and children. two california men on a gay cruise in the caribbean have been arrested for having sex. police boarded the cruise ship on the island of dominica yesterday. when a witness on the dock alerted them. sex between men is illegal in dominica. the president of the company who organized the cruise says the men should be released today. developing news now from jacksonville, arkansas. the bodies of five children and one adult were found inside a

duplex. the fire chief says he's crews rushed to the duplex early this morning after a neighbor called smelling smoke. but he says no one answered the door, there was no sign of a fire, and then an hour later all of those bodies were found by a maintenance worker. there's no sign yet of foul play. the cause of death still has to be determined. the fire chief says it's possible there was a fire overnight, but then it may have burned itself out before firefighters got there this morning. back here at home, a cousin of oscar grant is suing the city of oakland for $10 million. last month 24-year-old tony jones was shot in the back by oakland police officers after he tried to run away from them. police pulled over his car, claiming the car was seen at an armed robbery. jones' attorneys claiming police used unreasonable force and says the police department tried to cover up the circumstances surrounding that shooting. the police chief of sanford, florida is asked to

resign. for the fatal shooting off 17- year-old tray have been martin. yesterday commissioners passed a in-confidence vote against the police chief, saying he was not properly hanking the case. martin is continue in unarmed african-american teenager and killed four weeks ago by a neighborhood watch captain. the captain has not been arrested and outrage about the case is spreading across the country. this is a scene from just last night? san francisco. more than a hundred people protested that martin situation in florida. they claim there was a racially motivated shooting. the shooter, who is listed as white on the police report, says he shot martin in self- defense. this is now being investigated by the justice department. southern california police say an attempted marijuana theft at a pot club was doomed from the start. this is infrared video from a

police helicopter, showings a and three teenagers sneak into a medical marijuana dispensary in santa ana. one suspect became trapped inside a rooftop vent. all the pot thieves were eventually captured, and incidentally the owner of the pot club was watching all of this on security cameras at his home. a fallen boulder crashed into a home in southern ohio. take a look at this. the 100-ton rock broke away from a hillside late last night. it crushed two cars and rolled into the home. there were people inside at the time, but they were all on the other side of the house and were not hurt. the homeowner had to evacuate while crews determined whether the area is safe. i definitely would not want to stick around there. >> you're right! time is 8:53. we've been talking about this all morning, bizarre, strange noises. the mysterious sounds keeping people wide awake and shaking the ground in one town.

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trilogy by suzanne collins and the wall street journal reports lion ace gate has seen its share's rise almost 90% this year. >> wow! four straight nights of unexplained noises in wisconsin. people in clintonville, wisconsin experiencing mysterious booms, police getting hundreds of calls about these strange sounds. it's coming from underground. bratting windows and shaking people awake. >> three booms and one good shake. >> all night long we're hearing the rumblings, the booms going on. >> a geologist from the university of wisconsin says this is probably a natural phenomenon. the city administrator thinks that too. something is happening underground. they've had engineers arriving today or tomorrow with equipment hopefully to pinpoint the epicenter and finally figure out what is going on. sal has an update on the commute. >> we have a look at the san

francisco commute, so far northbound 101 looks good, like a little snafu or little something going on. southbound 101 right at the 80, left lane blocked so watch for slow traffic there. now let's go to mark. >> we have been tracking the drizzle and clouds this morning into the afternoon. skies becoming partly cloudy and some more rain clouds, get ready for another storm just in time for for the weekend. we'll fine tune the timing over the next couple days. that's our report this morning. thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. join is at noon for more on the search for sierra lamar. investigators will update us at 10. see you then. thank you for watching.