it was a muslim ceremony. solaiman nuri was laid to rest first. >> purest man. he always found time to do friday prayer. you know, his teammates, he would coach, dedicate his life. >> reporter: the pair were riding their bicycles on saturday morning. a white suv jumped the curve, and ran into had family, killing the father and daughter. >> they did everything together. she wouldn't go anywhere without her dad. i remember my wedding she would not leave him. >> reporter: today he said the family has faith the system will work in their favor. >> we have faith in the susts cyst -- in the justice system. whatever the case is, republican the district attorney is working night and day. >> reporter: the driver was

released from jail yesterday and has yet to be charged with a crime. live, john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. a san francisco motel walking distance to the beach and popular with tourists could be welcoming new client tell. ktvu's rob roth is live with the concerns the motel could turn into homeless housing. >> reporter: we are in front of the beach motel, ocean beach is two blocks away. the owner is concerned he may be forced to turn his hotel into housing for the homeless. >> reporter: here is the beach motel, you can see the ocean. he has been renting to sufferers and sight seers for 20 years. . >> reporter: he is worried the motel could become a homeless shelter. >> they are ruining the whole

neighborhood. >> reporter: the housing clinic contends the motel is not zoned as a tourist hotel but as a resident hotel. they want to turn it into single room apartments for homeless people. >> that would be a worry, it would effect the neighborhood in many ways. you know, contrary to what we are ting to do in the neighborhood. -- what we are trying to do in the neighborhood. >> complete pack of lies. they have done no more to take over that hotel than any resident. >> reporter: he denies having plans to convert the motel into housing for the homeless but we would like to see them rent rooms to students who may want to live in the neighborhood. >> if you want to keep working class people in san francisco,

you need to preserve. >> reporter: they have faced off over the issue before and the motel has a permit allowing it to operate as a tourist motel. they are holding a hearing tonight to look at the zoning. it could be decided by the courts. reporting live in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. leaders will take up a alcohol law tomorrow that would crack down on local restaurants and bars, it would force businesses that serve alcohol to comply with performance standards. it is inpanse to violence downtown. a group of owners oppose it saying it is unnecessary. they meet tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. a drunk driver faces charges in san francisco following a string of hit and run accidents. police say they got a report of suv hitting numerous parked

cars around 5:00 a.m. officers say the driver continued to the embarcadero where he flipped his suv. >> he was wondering where the driver was. the officer is like you were the driver, he said i am not driving. he was loaded out of his mind. >> the driver was hospitalized and expected to survive. everybody is talking about the funnel cloud, residents say it could be the same one that did this damage to their town. >> ktvu's bill martin is live to explain how this could happen. >> the national weather service they go out to look that damage to determine if it is a tornado. they are calling this a tornado. these pictures taken from stockton. that is a funnel cloud.

what is a tornado? when it touches the ground. when it touches the ground, look what it does. this is near the time of the video. that damage looks like a tornado. the way things are spread apart there. the boat untouched. over 100 miles an hour. still a lot of damage. the national weather service will determine if it is a f1 or f2. looks like structures and bending of poles. severe weather continuings. that is from discovery -- continues. that is from discovery bay. show you where it happened. right there. french camp. the cell by french camp. that is the cell that caused this damage. of course, look at stockton.

that is where the picture was taken. french camp. that is what you are looking at. as you go to live storm tracker 2, you see the activity in the foot hills. there is more behind this and more unstable cold air that could spawn more funnel clouds and thunderstorms. i have more, i will see you back here. >> we have more videos and pictures. you can see them on www.ktvu.com, click on the slide show tab. the pepper spray incident could and should have been prevented. ktvu's ken pritchett is live at uc davis with where they layed the blame. >> reporter: this is the report, it is shy of 200 pages. butilities conclusion -- but its conclusion, the pepper spray was avoidable and should not have happened.

this is the video on november 18 after a failed attempt to remove occupy protesters. an officer unleashed pepper spray. they released a report that was damming of police and the administration. >> there was no reason we conclude to have used the pepper spray. >> reporter: it blamed the police for an inadequate plan and failing to followilities plan. the police chief was blamed and they said the chancellor failed to community her desire that force not be used on protesters. a failure of leadership. >> important to know who is in charge. who is responsible for what. >> reporter: what the report did not do was recommend any kind of punishment which concerned students.

>> fails to hold them accountable. >> reporter: the list of errors and concerns in the report were long, including the pepper spray can. this afternoon the chancellor did issue a statement, she thanked the committee for the report but she did not address the concerns about her role in this incident outlined in that report. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >> read the report on www.ktvu.com. we put a link under the top story. in the last half hour we learned george zimmerman is now in jail in florida after murder charges were filed against him in the death of trayvon martin. the prosecutor announced second degree murder charges against the neighborhood watchman this

afternoon. the shooting of the 17-year-old on february 28 and the lack of an arrest stirred outrage. george zimmerman said he shot trayvon martin in self-defense and his attorney says he will plead not guilty. trayvon martin's called the past 45 day as nightmare. >> we wanted nothing more, nothing less. we just wanted an arrest and we got it. i say thank you. >> the teenager's family spoke after watching the announcement of the charges. today the u.s. justice department said its civil civil rights division ask conducting a separate -- is conducting a separate investigation. software engineer guilty. jason cai was found guilty of shooting xia zhao in 2008.

xia zhaorimented the family's wife. jason cai was charged in his wife's death. her family hired xia zhao to sue jason cai for wrongful death. authorities are reviewing sonar images in the search for sierra lamar. the images were taken earlier this week. if anything spit ionsis spotted suspicious is spotted they will return to the reservoirs and they resumed their search today and targeted a quarry and a shooting range. sierra lamar disappeared on march 16. gavin newsom and his wife thrown their support behind a law to fight human trafficking. they announced their support today. supporters want fooget the -- to get the act on the november

ballot. it would increase penalties. lawmakers get a perk when it comes to specialized license plates. politicians can get them at deep discounts that are not available to any other drivers. drivers must pay $50 for special plates and lawmakers only have to pay $6. >> it is a benefit that they should not get. there is no reason they should get a special license place and not have to pay for that. >> california is losing $37,000 from politicians when they register. after that they keep their plates at no extra charge. apple is in legal hot water. the conspiracy that cost consumers millions. >> i am consumer editor tom

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bart sents a train to san jose to kickoff his extension project. it was in anticipation of a ground breaking ceremony tomorrow. it signals the first phase of the extension. the work is expected to last till 2016. the official was in the bay area today. he also highlighted the need to repair and replace the transit systems. >> in order for transit to be a reliable choice we need to

reinvest. >> bart averages 365,000 riders a day during the week. that is a historic high. a man is charged with setting several fires near his home. investigators say he admitted to setting three grass fires during the past year. authorities say he told them he didn't feel he did anything wrong because the fires were small. he is being held on $225,000 bail because he has two prior arson convictions. man was sentsanced to a year -- sentenced to a year in jail. the judge would not allow us to show the face of andrew vargas. surveillance video captured his struck striking a taxi in san

francisco last august 4. he later hit ryan white as they left the giants' game. >> i cannot find the words to express how remorseful i feel towards the white family. >> the family says ryan white is still severely injured. over charging customers for e- books. the justice department claims apple conspired to add 2-$3 to books. the government says it already reached a settlement with three publishers in the case. san francisco state senator introduced to bill to open up whistle blower investigations

to more public scrutiny. a investigation found that cal state spent $9 million settling cases. if you think the weather has been weird, so do the berry farmers. ktvu's consumer editor tom vacar joins us live with what is looking to be a late summer fruit season. tom? >> reporter: well, it is a sign of the times but not a permanent one. >> reporter: -- one -- >> reporter: tom has a farm where he raises crops. he says three years of unusual weather cost him and other farmers. >> we had late freezes that destroy the plants. late rains and last year the weather was so unusual, i got

no olives. the statewide crop, because of weather, was down by 60%. >> reporter: the program puts greater demands on formers. >> three years in a row makes it tough on producing reasonably priced crops. the weather conditions have not been conducive. >> it is an unusual year. >> reporter: ken invites the public to pick what is in season beginning memorial day weekend. >> in some years it could be 2 weeks before that and weather conditions can delay it up to 2 weeks beyond that. >> reporter: if the weather stays cool, his crops will be late. >> the bees can fly. >> it will delay the crops. it will create bad conditions for the crops to grow on and so you will have less. the farmers are not about to blame three odd years on

climate change. >> there is no such thing as normal. every year is different. >> reporter: for now, imported -- actually, warmers climates is your best source. consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. ktvu's chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking thunder and a funnel cloud. >> not that unusual for this time of year. interesting weather for us. you get funnel clouds in the central valley and thunderstorms. we have more for the next 48 48 hours. mountains triggering thunderstorms. rain on the mountain. there is more rain in the forecast. just in time for the morning commute.

tomorrow morning, 4:30, they get going, they will be talking about the rain on your thursday morning commute. not going to rain a ton but it will slow things down. scattered showers start tonight and there is more showers in the friday morning time period. they lineup like this, there is thursday, friday. behind friday, saturday and sunday, looks good. better. high pressure wants to build in. tomorrow, the chance of thundershowers as the system moves through. morning is wet. cold air settles in, in the afternoon, might be a thundershower, funnel cloud. friday, chance of thunderstorms again. friday has more juice, that is our best bet for a thundershower. not unusual weather, but unsettled weather. in the mountains, they will get a couple feet of snow. thursday morning, right, it is

wet on the roads. when you are driving around, you have rain. north bay, light showers and wet roads. plan accordingly. scattered showers in the afternoon, right? they are popping up. that is cold air, unstable air. rain coming out like today. chance of a thundershower. as you look at the long range model, friday morning, and rides through into friday afternoon. friday the giantsope opener -- giants home opener, wet. forecast is for rain in the morning. scattered showers during the game. i don't think they will cancel but it will make for a damp opening day. oakland played in the rain last night. five-day forecast with your weekend in view. >> thank you. coming up on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36, a fatal accident involving a bicyclist

is the second this month. the reason some fear it may be a growing problem. and how good do workers have it? it may not get better. those storiesies on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36. and joe fonzi in sports coming up next.

lawmakers introduced a bill that would strengthen religious freedom in the work place. it would make it illegal for workers to discriminate. the muslim community claim they are often segregated from employers. ktvu's joe fonzi joins us now. a's pull it off? >> yeah, playing baseball tonight. the a's back at it this afternoon gens the kansas city royals. yoenis cespedes can do it all. he takes off and comes home when the royals throw the balls into center field. he had two more hits today and scored twice. johnny gomes hits this blast.

gordon runs out of run and it is a 3-2 game. tied 3-3. the winning run scored when he hit with the bases loaded. 5-4 a's. they hit the road to seattle after an off day. it is getting close to the nfl draft time. raiders general manager talked about that and otherissues. -- other issues. he had time to evaluate the team that last season started strong before fading down the stretch and finishing 8-8. he will look to the draft to accomplish one major objective. >> i feel like we have players we can lineup in a lot spots and good players. but when you talk about a guy

goes down, who do we have, guy goes down here, we need depth. at a few spots. >> giants trailing 3-0. we will have it tonight. >> thank you. a crew is headed to see the dang after a -- damage from the funnel cloud. we will have that later. thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. mail. test results from home. check records. change appointments. now doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists are all digitally connected to each other. and ultimately connected to you. at kaiser permanente, we believe that if knowledge is power,

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