sound. >> there was like a get down or something like that. i don't know which one goes first, but both were happening. >> reporter: the owner of the house are listed as hoe and ying huley. and neighbors say an extended family of adults lived in the house. neighbors couldn't believe the news. >> i'm shocked. five people. i am totally shocked. >> reporter: police say there were bodies in different parts of the house including inside the front door and garage. i want to assure the public that we don't believe we have anybody at large that's going to be looking to do random acts. we believe this act was specific to this residence. >> and we can also say there were no reports of any suspicious behavior at this house until now. reporting live in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news.

combing that neighborhood for reaction of the shooting, john sasaki. >> reporter: just down that block, you can see that orange house where this shocking incident happened rocking this neighborhood. the killings of five people may be confined to a small house but it's leaving residents shocked and dismayed. >> we thought this was a quiet area where it was calm and for that to happen is just -- yeah. >> reporter: residents we met said there's very little crimes here, nothing even close to what happened today. >> we don't know what is going on around here, you know. we never know. i mean there must be someone crazy coming into the house and kill those people or i don't know what the issues are there. >> reporter: this woman lives up a block and heard sirens this morning. >> something happened,but i don't -- but i can't believe that five people. that's a lot of people. >> reporter: no one we met knew the people in the home or what

may have caused this mass killing. >> i didn't know anything about the family, i didn't know anything that was going on over there. >> reporter: this woman said she noticed nothing unusual. >> it was just normal. if anything last night was a quiet night of all the nights i have heard. >> reporter: another neighbor said the shootings has shaken his nerves. >> my wife is in the philippines, she's going to be so shocked. i know what he's going to tell me, move out of that place. >> reporter: live in san francisco, i'm john sasaki, ktvu news. still no sign tonight of that missing teenage girl from morgan hill and the search is growing more desperate by the hour. robert handa is live tonight with what investigators did today and what kind of information they are getting from the public, robert. >> reporter: well this is where

the missing teen catches her school bus in the early morning hours. police came here this morning, their goal, get more information. sierra lamar left to catch the school bus so investigators set up a roadblock to talk to people who normally drive through. it was a pattern we saw all day. investigators combing the area, looking for clues about the missing 15-year-old. >> this can happen to anybody, if you can take the time to just think about anything that you saw that morning. >> reporter: fbi agents went to the field where sierra l amar's purse was found. >> sometimes i saw him around

8:00 a.m., and sometimes in the afternoon, sometimes he was there all day long. >> reporter: sierra's mother says she appreciates that cooperation because now she acknowledges her daughter may have been abducted. >> anyone that's out there, you know if somebody is holding her and against her will you know, please please please let her go. >> reporter: that possibility is also reflected in the yellow ribbons displayed today in various neighborhoods. >> if she has been abducted her abductor we want that person to know that we're looking for her and we're not going to stop looking. >> reporter: investigators will be searching again tomorrow. and coming up tonight in 22 minutes we'll talk to a former fbi profiler from virginia about the search for sierra la

-- lamar. why she says it's troubling that her belongings were found in different locations. and the latest on ross mirkarimi. this time it involves his young son. mirkarimi in january was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery against his wife. a court implemented a stay away order. well today a state superior court modified the visitation schedule. it allows lopez to take their son to venezuela to visit her ailing father. mirkarimi bruised lopez' arm after they argued about taking the boy to her home country. a crowd of religious leaders and support rallied in san francisco today to protest president obama's policy on contraceptive coverage.

more than a dozen speakers addressed an enthusiastic crowd on seventh street. they're angry about a federal mandate that employers offer insurance coverage for contraceptives. >> a message we want to get across is that the government has gone too far. we should be able to live out our lives, abortion, birth control, all of these things are a violation of our own conscious. >> reporter: today's event of san francisco was one of 100 religious rallies around the nation protesting the health care mandate. congresswoman nancy pelosi today help launched a free service in san francisco. one that helps doctors keep better track of their patients records. pelosi took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony. it provides free medical software that allows doctors to

quickly pull out their customers medical records. pelosi also spoke out in support of obama's health reform act saying it's crucial. >> if you're a call away from, more importantly to the health security of your family. this is very personal. >> practice fusion employs 150 people and says it will use funds from the new health care reform act to hire another 130 people by the end of the year. president obama is marking the second anniversary of the health care reform bill. but two years after he signed the law, the political and legal battle over health care reform is heating up. coming up at 5:45. the end fighting against the republican fighting over health care and the arguments that is the u.s. supreme court will be hearing tomorrow about one crucial aspect of that health care reform act. bank of america has come up with a plan to keep people in

their houses when they face foreclosure. make them renters. b of a plans to let 1,000 customers pay rent and stay put. but only if their home is worth less than they owe on their mortgage. customers will have to transfer title to the bank and b of a will forgive the debt. they will be allowed to rent the home for up to three years. california's unemployment stayed at 10.10. california added 4,000 nonfarm jobs. more than 3 million people remain on the unemployment role. wall street closed up for the day. despite some positive news on jobs and corporate profits investors worried this week about the possibility of a global economic slow down. the dow jones finished up 34 points for the day but down 152 for the week. the nasdaq added four points today. trading in apple stock was halted briefly this morning

after the nation's third largest stock exchange posted an incorrect low price for a trade of apple shares. the error by bats global markets briefly dropped apple's price 9.4%. the new eastern span of the bay bridge is seismically safe. that's the conclusion of a special review committee set up by the overnight committee. the review looked at construction methods and quality testing particularly for the main tower of that south anchor suspension. if i had a son he would look like travon. >> president obama talking

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new trouble for the former head of the central contra costa narcotics enforcement team. the san francisco chronicle obtained this video of normal welsh in the process of making an alleged drug deal last year in concord. prosecutors say the under cover video shows welsh seen here in the red shirt and private investigators christopher butler in the black shirt selling a pound of meth to a department of justice informant. walsh is accused of stealing the drugs. the u.s. army sergeant accused of gunning down afghan civilians are now charged in connection with that deadly rampage. sergeant robert bales was charged today with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the killing of eight afghan adults

and nine children. he's also charged with six counts of attempted murder and six counts of assault. bales is being held at fort levenworth kansas. premeditated murder is a capital offense. if convicted bales could be sentenced to death. today president obama entered the national conversation about the shooting death of trayvon martin. our rita williams with his intensely personal comments and today's developments, rita. >> reporter: gasia, as a federal and state investigation into the killing began. president obama urged americans today to do some soul searching. >> you know if i had a son he would look like trayvon. >> trayvon martin, 17 and unarmed carrying only an iced tea and bag of skitlles. to his parents -- >> i think they are right to expect that all of us as

americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> reporter: with that the president injected himself into the emotional debate of the racially charged case. and catapulted it into the presidential campaign. with all three republican challengers making statements today. neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman 28 the son of a white father and latino mother says he shot martin in self-defense with a concealed weapon he had a license to scary. >> george had a passion for the safety of our neighborhood. >> reporter: in a 911 call before the shooting he makes a racial remark and is told to stop following the man. zimmerman says he was returning to his suv when martin attacked him. >> we want him convicted for the murder of ore son. >> reporter: florida has had a

controversy law called stand your ground. a year ago an investigation by the st. petersburg times found that race of justifiable homicide tripled since that law was passed. that on average twice a week someone's killing was considered justifiable and not a crime. rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. the hooded sweatshirt that trayvon martin was wearing has now become a center of controversy. fox news commentator said this morning that he would tell plaque and latino young men including his own son not to wear hoodies. >> when you see a kid walking down the street. particularly a dark skinned kid like my son cruz, that i would constantly scream at him, take that hood off. what's the instant identification, what's the instant association. it's those crime scene surveillance tapes, every time you see someone sticking up a

7/11. the kid is wearing a hoodie. >> rivera says the hoodie was as responsible for the shooting as much as zimmerman. and rivera says the man he calls a neighborhood watch nut should be prosecuted. nba all star dwayne wade changed his picture of twitter to one of himself wearing a hoodie. wade said that the shooting of trayvon hit close to home because of his two son. wade also posted this picture

of his entire team wearing hoodies. -- real estate investors renovated that two bedroom home and put it up for sale at twice that amount. let's talk about the weather now. today felt like the calm before the storm. >> wasn't it. i got a lot of calls asking the weekend. there'll be breaks in the clouds but this is a nice looking weather system coming in. this is something you would see in february. low pressure center coming in here. it drops in starting late tonight into tomorrow morning. how do we know it's coming, you go into these live buoy readings. just off san francisco it's a southerly wind right there. the winds are blowing south gusting to 18. a southerly wind is a good

indication, it is an indication that the weather pattern is changing around. tonight the winds go south, tomorrow the rain starts. the forecast overnight lows tonight are cool not as cold as last night. we had a lot of frost last night. tomorrow morning i think the cloud cover will keep things in such a way that you're not going to see frost everywhere but you will have mild to cool mild overnight lows. some where around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. you're going to start seeing only rain. it is going to move into the bay area into the early morning hours and stick around. santa rosa as 56% of average. just for the entire rainfall season or where we should be for this time of year. 50% for san francisco. 30% of average for this time of year in san jose. it's not so good. the rain we'll get will help but it's not a lot. it's not going to change those numbers significantly. tomorrow morning, there's the front in the bay area. you might hear the rain coming down. you will notice the wind. winds will kick up right at the

front. the problem is, baseball and outdoor activities those fields are going to be wet. you can see a .4-inch. then we have widely scattered showers in the mid-morning hours for saturday. and continued scattered showers for the afternoon. that's your saturday, when i come back we have sunday lined up. sunday is going to be the nicer day on the weekend but there's still a lot of rain. we'll roll the computer model. back here in just a few. a hawaii monk seal removed because he was attacking other pups is now at a lab. scientists will study him to better understand the endangered species and why its population is declining. they are expected to study the seal for about two years before sending him back to hawaii. here at home the san francisco zoo's newest residents are set to make their public debut tomorrow but here

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hundreds of people around the the bay area are preparing to go through digital detox. they've pledged to unplug and go without cell phones, computers or any digital or web device for 24 hours beginning at sunset. organizers of the national day of unplugging say it's about seeing what you've been missing in the real world. they say they have some suggestions to fill all that time that's normally spent plugged in. among them nurture your health. get outside and discover silence. today in africa, a new mission was launched to find kony. they want to find him to try him for crimes.

>> we're going to pursue mr.kony. >> he's the leader of the lords resistance army which has forced young boys to fight as soldiers and made sex slaves of women and girls. the african union says kony's army has killed 26 army sreul -- civilians. >> they've been subjected to a training that can allow them to live in the bush, smell the bush, and sleep and see where mr. kony and some of his men are. >> reporter: the new mission comes on a heel of an internet campaign targeting kony with videos that illustrate the polite of the children soldiers. kony is also wanted for war crimes and crimes against

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canvassed this neighborhood. >> reporter: at george washington elementary, parents, students and teachers are on alert. >> someone saw they saw a guy taking pictures. >> reporter: after a group of students reported seeing a man that looks like this in the girl's bathroom. school officials allows us to take this video of a girl's bathroom where a group of 9- year-olds noticed something was wrong and reported it to a teacher. >> he hid from her for a while until she was able to look over the stall and look at him. >> reporter: as the teacher called for security and back up the suspect bolted. the suspect and two teachers chased him down two blocks but lost sight of him. school teachers started calling parents. >> they just warned me that there was a person that entered the girl's bathroom and was taking pictures. i mean i was scared. >> reporter: daley city police

were checking records. >> he basically deactivated several bathroom stalls by means of stuffing paper and other devices to force the girls to use one stall. >> reporter: hear more details about that suspect. he's described as a hispanic man, 25 to 30 years old. about 5'10", 150 pounds. he has dark hair and a noticeable bald spot on the top of his head. yesterday 150 parents met with police and they were told to talk about this and to continue to share this sketch amongst each other and with their neighborhood. patti lee. a physicians assistant is under arrest accused of sexually assaulting a patient at a weight loss clinic. anyone with information on their case or other victims are urged to call san jose police.

police in sassoon city are looking for who killed a delivery man. people in the neighborhood said they heard the gunfire. >> i heard pow, pow, pow. by that time i looked out the window and i didn't see anybody. i seen a couple of cars shoot up the street but other than that that was it. >> reporter: investigators say the shooter might have thought a driver by shooting was about to take place. they said they have a person of interest but have not yet arrested anyone. we told you at the beginning of this newscast that the fbi is joining the search for sierra lamar. this afternoon janine de la vega spoke with a former fbi profiler. janine is live now after learning who and what is getting extra scrutiny. >> reporter: i'm here at the

intersection where sierra lamar's purse was found on this field by investigators. what happened to sierra lamar? a former fbi profiler tells us the fact that the 15-year-old's belongings were found in different locations is troubling. her cell phone was found in a field, her purse was found near an intersection at santa teresa and laguna. the profiler questions whether a potential abductor wanted invest in -- investigators to find them. >> did he place them in

different places to be found. they will be checking the clothes to foreign hairs and fibers that don't go back to the family and don't go back to the victims. >> reporter: while search dogs have been combing the area, a special task force has been contacting all sexual offenders in the area. they will pay close attention to several ones. >> they're going to be looking at prior crimes that may have involved like the luring of the child. an attempted kidnapping. >> reporter: otule is certain that a second team from the fbi is compiling a complete victimology of the sierra. learning about her personality and behavior which will tell them what a likely scenario might be. janine de la vega, channel 2 news. students and staff are on alert tonight after a string of break-ins in the county.

they've made off with thousands of dollars worth of equipment including monitors, laptops and computers. university officials say they are concerning enhancing security measures to better protect people who are working late in those labs. a former california tomato tycoon today pled guilty to racketeering. salier was charged with bribing. salier fixed prices and rigged bids. the fbi, irs, u.s. attorneys office and fda all spend more than six years investigating the case. >> scott salier put greed ahead of concern for his employees and consumers worldwide who purchased and consumed items made with his misrepresented products. >> he is now free until a sentencing in july. under the plea deal he faces no

more than seven years in prison. roiters is reporting that facebook has made a deal with ibm for 750 patents. a source told roiters that facebook is trying to boister it's portfolio. it's happening again. >> caltrans is closing a major bay area bridge. we'll tell you which one and when up next. it's the sign of the times the number of times added in construction and what economists say it could mean for california's economy. sound in the alarm, the warning scientists are sending out about what pollution can do to the high sierra. [ teen ] times are good, aren't they, kids?

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8,900 new construction jobs. >> we have a lot of housing stock to clear out first. because of all the foreclosures, people have been getting good deals for a long time. now they're starting to look around, remod elle, expand. business are starting to remodel again. i think it's good for the future. economists believe the construction industry hit bottom about six months ago. volunteers at the oakland volunteers are looking to provide for dental work for people in need. people started lining up for services before dawn. the clinic offering dental care, medical care and vision checks all at no cost. the four day clinic runs through sunday. help is provided on a first come, first served basis with tickets distributed at 3:30 a.m. each day. scientists say they found a link between living alone and a greater risk of depression. researchers looked at

participants use of depression and living arrangements. they found that those who live alone are at a nearly 80% greater risk of depression. although this study found an association between living alone and depression it did not prove an actual cause and effect relationship. the number of kids diagnosed with adhd has risen 66% in the past decade. researchers at north western university say that in 2002, 6.2 million doctors office visits resulted in a diagnosis of adhd. by 2010 that number had jumped to 10 million. the authors of the study don't think there's been an increase in the number of children with adhd. some tense moments on the campaign trail, some remarks

made by a woman taking target practice. let's see if we can find some breaks in the rain for saturday and sunday. we'll tell you about a new push to stop mobile phone theft and tell you where you're most vulnerable. what's being done to avoid employers. plus you've heard of neighborhood watch but now police are listing some outsider to keep an eye on your home. who they're reaching out to. tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 complete bay area news coverage.

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for about two hours. we told you earlier in this newscast how two years ago today president obama signed the affordable health care act. now in this election year the political battle over that law is ramping up. >> right to medical care. >> health care is a fundamental challenge that this country has faced for a long time. >> this week president obama released this new campaign ad defending his health care reform. the candidates have hammered the president over the law in familiar the mandate that every american have health insurance. and that all employers provide contraceptive coverage. >> they don't have any big big ceremony going on. the president is not giving speeches on obama care and that's for a reason. most americans want to get rid of it and i'm one of them. >> obama has taken a beating

over health care. today the white house piled on. >> the individual mandate provision of the president's affordable care act bear striking similarities of the individual mandate that was put in place in massachusetts. >> next week the battle moves from the political arena to the court. the supreme court plans to issue a ruling on the health care law by late june. republican presidential candidate rick santorum spoke out against both president obama and rival mitt romney today. >> that's santorum getting in a little target practice at a shooting range in west monroe. he told reporters that he not mitt romney would provide a clear voice for voters in november. >> i'll vote for whoever the republican is, i will work for them. barack obama is a disaster.

but we can't have someone who agrees with him on some of the biggest issues of the day that's the problem with governor romney. >> there are 46 delegates at stake in louisiana which holds it's primary on sunday. recent polls show santorum with a substantial lead over romney in that state. now there was one controversial moment at santorum's event. while he was shooting at that target, a woman yelled out pretend it's obama. santorum did not hear the remark but reporters asked him about it later. >> no we're not pretending we're shooting pistols and -- you know, very horrible remark. i'm glad i didn't hear it. >> reporter: the u.s. secret service is reportedly looking into that incident. >> the coast guard retrieved an overturned boat this morning right near hunter's point. the coast guard sent a boat to the area near pier 26. it is the same 25-foot boat

involved in a rescue last night. the thug boat crew rescued a man on the boat when it overturned. the man was alone on the boat. crews this morning towed the boat to shore. pollution could lead to long term problems for the lake tahoe area. the u.s. geological area could lose it's -- the change in temperatures could also create a number of side effects including more intense winter storms, heat waves and more fire danger over the next 40 years. the final preparations on the way for the oakland running festival which is being held this sunday. this video we're showing you here is from last year's event. 8,000 people of all ages are expected to run in the race. this year's event is expected to generate around $3 million in economic impact for oakland with 300,000 going to local charities. there will be several races this sunday. the longest one the marathon begins at 7:30 in lake merit. runners will make their way all

the way to the montclaire area. from what bill martin has been telling us all week long better that that race be on sunday than saturday. >> sunday is going to be better. saturday should be the wettest but sunday we'll have heavy showers as well. it's just going to be one of those weekend that we'll need the umbrellas and you will want to be prepared for a little bit of everything. here's how the computer model lays it out. saturday morning that front starts to move on shore and that's when the rain reallily begins. it's enough that it's going to dampen the field, the outdoor activities, you golfers. a lot of folks have outdoor activity. the weather in the morning very wet. as we get into 7:00 a.m. those are scattered showers, there's a bit of a break but there's showers. they start to rotate. there's sunshine and there's saturday afternoon. so not a lot of sun. on sunday, we're going to see a little bit -- that's saturday night but as we get into sunday

we're going to see a little bit of clearing and monday more clearing. sunday will be scattered showers as well. sunday would be the best day on the weekend. right now, if you do do something on sunday you're going to be dodging rain drops. so here's how it goes. we're looking at the long range computer model. we're looking at the forecast for tonight. the weekend is wet, in the long range computer model takes us into next week. we're looking at sprinkles perhaps on monday and perhaps on tuesday. here we go. so the forecast and the storm impact will be half an inch to 2-inches of rain for two days. the winds will gust and the snow levels drop down to 2,000 feet. the first one comes through tonight as it moves in tonight, then it's right over us on saturday. leaves its instability and leaves on sunday with scattered showers. forecast highs tomorrow then cooler than they were, right. and we had mid-70s a couple of days ago. tomorrow we're looking at 50. so this is a cool weather

system. it'll bring low snow levels as we mentioned that makes for travel problems up in the mountains if you're traveling up to lake tahoe. chains will be required at much lower elevations. the travel forecast then with your weekend in view again is, we had such a beautiful february. then again march and we have this kind of weather. but the weekend is wet, sunday is the wettest. >> and we've had all week to plan for this because you've been telling us. thank you bill. the movie the hunger games got off to a strong start at the box office. the film opened with $19.7 million in overnight sales following its opening at midnight last night. that ranks number seven on the all time midnight openings. movie lovers are heading to the bay area to pay tribute to

silent films. starting this weekend the san francisco silent film festival will present four special screenings of the 1920s napoleon. also debuts composer carl davis and east bay symphony. this is the first time in three decades the film will be screened with a live orchestra. the first screening will be held tomorrow at the paramount theater in downtown oakland. we have new video of a memphis television news crew threatened while doing their job. >> everybody is lying, my best friend is saying, man look. get the camera off of me. >> you can't touch the camera now. the suspect brandon odom got angry at a reporters question so he went to his truck and grabbed a gun. the memphis news team was reporting on the murder of an elderly man. the photographer showed the video later to a sheriff's deputy who issued an arrest

warrant. odom later turned himself in. the irs is sounding the alarm about identity theft. what you need to know to make sure your tax return actually comes to your mailbox. cçrrú

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in mexico today as he begins a pilgramage. on monday benedict will travel to cuba. the irs is sounding an urgent warning for anyone filing taxes this season. government officials say they are dealing with a fast growing crime tend that isn't easy to stop. >> very difficult for us when a tax return comes in on the surface to determine whether or not there's identity theft involved. >> thieves steal social security numbers then file an online tax return using the person's name and a fake w2 income form. then they get the irs to issue a refund on a debit card. >> we're deeply concerned about it, we've taken a number of additional steps to help and we're going to do more down the road to help taxpayers. >> the number of tax returns

pulled for suspected identity theft topped a quarter million last year more than five times as many as just the year before. to learn how you can avoid to become a victim of tax return fraud go to ktvu.com and then scroll down to web links. five bodies found inside a san francisco home. coming up in just two minutes here, the unusual sound heard that could be a clue in this case. pablo al to police are targeting burglar -- palo alto police are targeting burglars. the simple change investigators say could slash burglary cases by 60%.

we'll tell you about a new push to end cell phone theft and we'll tell you where you're more vulnerable. five bodies found in one home, the mysterious sounds a neighbor heard that could shed light on the case. good evening everyone i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. there are many questions tonight about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of five people most if not all family members were found inside one house in san francisco. the gruesome discovery was made near city college. rob roth join us live now he's live near the scene with what

he's learning from police, rob. >> reporter: julie police are still here in front of the house on howell street near ocean as investigators continue piecing together exactly what happened here. >> reporter: a family member arrived this morning finding one body, then more. at least four are related. >> in all we have five adult, what appear to be asian victims. three females, two males. we believe at this time that they all reside in the residence. >> reporter: a neighbor who would only give us his first name, said that he heard noises during the night. >> i heard a boom sound, and another saying get down. i don't know