. good morning, look at these pictures, one person has died and another is hurt after an overnight fire. a large group of vandals target smashing store windows and we will have the group behind all this vandalism. protesters are slowly making their way to san francisco city hall and they are making it to a number of picket lines and we will tell you where they are headed coming up. the final days of osama bin laden, the clues they are revealing as we draw near to the one year anniversary of his

death. channel 2 news continues. this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. >> well, good morning to you, it is tuesday, may 1st, i am dave clark. >> and i am pam cook, let's check in with steve paulson. >> we have maybe a surge inland and it has lifted, that is not the case today and we have issued in cool air, 50s and 60s and lower to mid-70s, sal? they will avoid the crash and it is affecting more than normal and since people are held up there it is lighter after summersville you can do yourself a favor and get out before anybody else gets there. i want to look at the golden

gate bridge, organizers told ktvu channel 2 morning news there is no longer a planned protest planned here and ferry service has been canceled out of larkspur because of a strike that will last only according to those striking so you will have to take a bus or get into your car out of marin, let's go back to the dollars being. we are tracking developing news. now that fire started out in the four plex right -- four plex right near tully road. now police say the woman who died is described as an asian woman in her 30s. two other victims were taken to the hospital in critical condition and another person is also hurt. at the fire destroyed at least two cars in the garage bean

neath one of the units in san jose. turning to our other top stories, there are planned protests on this mayday and whose whose is right outside city hall but we are first starting with alex savage and tell us about the protest that really turned ugly in the mission district. >> reporter: it sure did. between 50 and 100 people took part in the mission district last night. one of the places they targeted was the police station. you can see the front window has been smashed. they dressed in all black after 10:00, a number of cars were trashed. we saw one being 0 towed away. the tires had been slashed as

well. a dozen or so businesses and there was an eye tallian restaurant which came under seas. some of these vandals were carrying crowbars. i see all a big signs and they are shouting, occupied will never stop and we want to kill the cop. it was scary. >> officers in riot helmets guarded the mission statement and police say there was one person arrested in connection with all that van limb. a group of protesters broke away from that rally and that's where they damaged all those

areas. ktvu channel 2 morning news. morning ferry service is canceled. take a look, there is quite a crowd outside. workers are picketing in san francisco this morning. the golden gate bridge transit district decided to suspend service and about 6,000 bay commuters have been forced to find another way to working. >> i am going to drive, i have to change the schedule and we will get around it. >> ferry service will resume this afternoon in time for the giant's game. coming up, we will have a live report on why picketers are picketing. they are starting to arrive at san francisco city hall and

allie rasmus is there on what they are planning and why their original plan on the golden gate bridge changed. allie? >> well you are out in the plaza area and there is a group of 20 or so people. the way is to take them with mayday picket lines around the bay area. occupied movement has coordinated and worked together on some of these protests and some of the visible picket lines and the nurses one day strike with sutter health but they say many of the workers across the bay area and different unions taking part in all of this, a lot are involved intense contract negotiations and they say having a rally

like this keeps them optimistic. >> i think having events like this has a way of adding a layer of optimism. >> reporter: now initially occupied supporters had planned a rally to shut down the golden gate bridge today but those plans have changed. there will not be a planned rally at the golden gate bridge and unions representing the labor billion bridge, they came out and told occupied they didn't want that to happen but wanted supporters to go to larkspur at the ticket terminals and also in san francisco. and along with that, they wanted buses to pick people up at 12th street downtown and some of the buses will take people over to bart stations. live in sap fran, allie rasmus ktvu channel 2 morning news.

time now less than an hour, thousands of nurses will walk off the job at 9 sutter location. they are planning a one day strike but sutter health says nurses will not be allowed back in until sunday at 7:00 a.m. they are post testing cuts and also elimination of psychiatric care. they say they are bringing in skilled temporary replacement workers and their contract is for five-days. make sure you stay right there for demonstrations. go to ktvu channel 2 morning news and click on the mayday tab, it is right there on the front page. one year after the death of osama bin laden, we are getting new clues to his state of mind and coming up, newly released

documents show what osama bin laden wanted to change about al qaeda and the concerns he had with his terrorist organization. >> everybody be may having out there. >> reporter: -- everybody be may having out there? >> we will start off with a look, 237, you can see traffic is going to be moderately heavy and no major issues, the commute looks good and no major problems crop crossing 880. also looking at north 808 traffic look -- 880 traffic looks good passed the coliseum and i want to go to the maps, at highway four, the rest of the contra costa county looks good.

southbound 101 and to san rafael and more people are driving because of the ferry and it's not causing a major commute rush on 101 just yet, let's go to steve. we have a cooler pattern which started yesterday coast and bay and cooler breezy, fog and sun temperatures will continue this cooling trend. maybe some light rain on the north bay. it is the start of that cooling trend and when it gets over 25 it is game on. so far it is not there yet but it is on its way. what is going on in napa and santa rosa, i wonder if that is feedback problem but if anybody is out there, that i do buy.

60s and 70s. a lot of orange 80s and we will have some areas of sun and what i want to draw your attention to is that area. look at that, there comes a system for thursday morning and mendocino county looks like it but maybe even down to the north bay overall sunny to mostly sunny and continue this team all the way into thursday and it continues to look better but slightly warmer. spring storms, take a look, baseball sized hail damaged several windshields. also a beef recall, in

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service is conducting. it is the deadline for mark sullivan to answer dozens of questions submitted by two congressional committees which have also launched an investigation. >> newly discovered, these documents are being released on the first anniversary of osama bin laden's death, allison? >> reporter: dave, you will be able to read some of these documents, west point will be pointing them online for the very first time and we are already getting some of the information from the top counterterrorist adviser. he is reading osama bin laden wanted to change al qaeda's name. he was concerned about the lack of experience in younger al qaeda leaders and worried muslims have damaged their

reputation. >> a large portions of muslim around the world have lost their trust in al qaeda. >> reporter: it reveals a temp plate to launch mumbai style bombs in other cities and we are looking at what the documents reveal about osama bin laden even though he was isolated. we will have more in my next update in about an hour. allison burns ktvu channel 2 morning news. he is continuing to secure asylum for a blind activist. he is believed to be under the protection at the u.s. embassy. pro president barack obama will not comment on the situation

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some beef sold in antioch is being recalled after a his happen involving a pen and a meat grind der. it teams as though a worker accidentally dropped a writing pen into the store's grinder. no ill necessaries have been -- illnesses have been reported. but if you bought beef you can return it for a full refund. the 25-year-old man is charged with killing tony balogna and his sons michael and matthew bologna and his sons back in 2008. prosecutor's say it was a case of mistaken identity. ramos opened fire on a car he thought were rival gang members. well the wife will be

staying for seven more weeks. a family court will make that determination. eliana lopez is allowed to leave the country to take care of her sick father and right now sheriff ross mirkarimi is suspended without pay until an ethics investigation is completed. and they are suspending phone records from the campaign manager. they are getting hit by spring storms and they are huge, this is west of dallas texas where it was raining baseball sized hail last night. it broke through several windshields. fortunately no reports of any people being injured. santa clara will soon have the bay area's first double carpool lanes. cal trans hopes to have the new

hov lanes in palo alto. that will make the freeways six lanes wide in each direction. drivers say it will give them a way to pass those slow moving drivers in the carpool lanes. speaking of carpool lanes let's check in with the commute with sal. i want to update you on the ferry situation, remember the larkspur ferry service is not running until later today but not for the morning commute but other ferries are running. and those are running san francisco bailing and another ferry. that is backed up for a 10 minute delay and no major problems getting onto the bridge. in oakland so far north and

southbound 880 that traffic is moving along nicely, no problems in court, a couple of stolen vehicles and we still have a crash because of a crash at summersville. well not a lot of low clouds around. they cooled down near the coast and it's somewhere in the 80s and we had some readings even with the fog near the coast, it was not strong enough and today that will not be the case and today it is picking up already and so a lot more 70s and 80s. a weak system went by and it continues to open the door for the breeds to continue to crank here. now it is 10 at fso and

hopefully between now and then temperature trend will be to take it down and it will be noticeably cooler and fog sun, spots for the usual places, a few high spots all the way, low clouds and we increase them and it just looks like a slow warming trend as we go into your weekend, dave, pam? time now 6:22, a wayward dolphin is still swimming around the channel and why they believe the dolphin is avoiding the ocean here. a very touching tribute for a woman who was the last in the observe then, a very touch be tribute from the san francisco

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packed ferry capsized. army divers continued rescue and recovery operations through the night. at least 100 people died after the boat broke into pieces in heavy winds and rain. an accident killed three sailors in a southern california yacht race. it was taking off at the start of the race last friday. they believe that yacht collided with another ship. two men on the yacht died of blunt forced injuries and a third man drowned and another man is still out there and they are looking for any large ships in the area at the time of the accident. in the meantime, alexis bush she is one of four people resumed missing near the

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>> oh, this friday, brandon our producer said this comes out this friday. >> how did you arrange that, you can do anything. thank you for joining us, it is tuesday, first day of may i am dave clark. >> thank you for joining us, it is 6:30. >> we are beginning with those mayday protests and we have live coverage and tara moriarty is following a mayday strike one that affects ferry riders and we will start with alex savage but the one in mission district really turned violent, good morning alex. >> reporter: this was a large mob between 50 and 100 people dressed in all black some people carrying bats and crowbars. it happened in the mission district where you can see a

few windows smashed in the front entrance. police officers stood guard to deter further violence. this group of vandals tossed paint and sprayed, a on some businesses, and including ashton martin was parked on the street. he tried to convince the vandals to stop what they were doing. >> i was standing eight feet away from the guy trying to reason with somebody who was in the whole mob mentality and at that point he turned it on me and people behind him started throwing egg bombs on me and it is terrible because i used to support that cause. >> just before that outbreak of violence here in the mission district, there was a rally at the park and people broke out

from that rally and started damaging businesses and cars and just one arrest has been made in connection with last night's violence. if you are just joining us, service canceled because of a mayday worker's strike and workers are out on the picket lines and they have been there for about an hour, right tara? >> that's right, these ferry workers have been here since the sun came up and they say they have been treated unfairly and they want it to stop. officials have shut down ferry service and they will not leave the dock. they are trying to avoid a walkout. >> reporter: after 45

bargaining sessions with the transit district they are still hung up on how to pay for healthcare. >> we have made contexts at the table and they told us that we have met their financial needs but that is not enough. they want a certain form of healthcare payments that burdens families the most and we just done agree with that. >> we went ahead and did a preemptive action to go ahead and cancel service and the reason we did that was so all of our customers would not show up this morning with no service anyway because of a picket line. they are keeping an eye on things to see if they need to add extra buses and they wanted to avoid inconveniencing baseball fans. it is scheduled to be back up 2:15 and you still can take the bus or go by car.

tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 morning news. union leaders and occupied protesters will be in san francisco and other bay area cities. the mayday events will continue well into the evening. now occupied organizers say today's mayday rallies will be unlike anything we have seen before. they are planning a number of small events rather than one big one. police are also warning commuters early today. the employees' union will stage another rally at city hall today. the hundreds of members of -- hundreds of members turned out last night for a noisy protest at city hall. they say they have made enough sacrifices over the years and now they want businesses to

help the city pay with its budget deficit. stay tuned for more coverage and you can go and click on the mayday tap of the front page. a man accused of stabbing a football star is set to be arraigned. three teens are also in custody. now he was killed at a party in fremont saturday night. his family and friends joined together at newark memorial high school to remember him. >> he was never a problem to me, he was a great kid, he always smiled got along with a lot of kids and a lot of people. >> his picture is now at a memorial and this murder

remains unsolved. and the suspect at oikos university pleads guilty and exhibits some strange behavior in court. one goh sat shackled and at times appeared to be talking to himself. one goh a former nursing student admits he carried out the shootings and has a pretrial hearing october 26th. demolition crews will start removing 55,000-tons and it's a big job of handling it away and that will take about two months. for now the rubble has become the latest of the city's tourist attraction. >> you look at the freeway versus the beauty of the bay and it's amazing to see how they working together in the same shot. >> construction can yous, the

what rina area. you were here as we watched it along with a new bridge. >> sal, will it officially be called the new doyle drive until the -- until they come up with another name? >> well, that is what they were calling it. good morning, traffic is moving along well throughout the bay. freeways are good but a good area to avoid would be to avoid the area of 8th and howard for some police activity and there is some investigation of a stabbing going on at that location. 8th in the south of market,

there may be some good service in the area. backed up for a 15 minute delay no major problems getting into san francisco. if you are driving into santa clara valley, we are off to a nice start. we have a new crash near fremont avenue, sunny veil but the rest of sunny veil, a little bit of northbound. cooler pattern still some 80s inland and we can say goodbye to those as we go into a more pronounced cooling trend. it is not widespread but they are making a push inland. cooling continues into tomorrow giving way to a cloudy thursday and mostly cloudy, drizzle looks like a good bet as the cooling takes us into thursday and probably bottom out as we

go into the weekend. some of that low cloud deck, the system does not take much until you cool things off. southwest to 15 an "f" s o is west at 21 and you get a southeast wind this time of year and that's a schooler direction -- that is a cooler direction. napa 41 and out in forestville, i think it is julie, that makes a lot more sense to me. upper 40s and highs are coming down. now the yellow indicates some and the system will continue to march towards us and that system will drive right over us on thursday and yesterday was the warmest day. as the cooling continues for everybody mostly coast and bay, we will carry it into mid-week

and into thursday. it is cooler out there in fact a little bit of a lower day, 50s and 60s coming down for many, and upper 50s and lower 60s closer to the coast and bay. lower clouds clearing out friday and a little warmup as we go to the weekend. today is the final snow survey of the season. they will take the survey at 11:00. now the last surveys showed water contempt was only 5 5% of normal. >> what is our time. >> well, fire and this is quite serious. a fire at a residential hotel injured several people and the extreme action some people took trying to get out of that burning building. union supporters, they are boarding buses to take them and

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. here is a quick look at our top stories, we are learning a child is critically injured. the fire victims were all from the same family. it was a three-alarm fire which started at 2:50 this morning. we already heard an asian woman in her 30s died in that fire. the city's mission district was cleaning up after vandals trashed their neighborhood. many were dressed in black targeted at least a dozen businesses and several cars. they even vandalized the police station and golden gate bridge ferry service has been suspended. our cameras are live out there. bridge and bus operations were

not affected by this. it will start up at 1:55 p.m. right now people are boarding buses at san francisco city hall and allie rasmus is there with more on where those buses are headed, allie? >> reporter: well a busload of people just left and pulled out of san francisco city hall and there were about 30 people on it and there is another bus off in the distance and these buses are taking people to larkspur and other areas so they can join others. there has been a change of plans. they initially planned to shut down the golden gate bridge but there is not going to be a rally at the golden gate bridge and it is not supposed to shut down and plans have changed after they said they didn't want the bridge to be shut down

but wanted the focus to be on contract negotiations an ongoing negotiations not a traffic jam. there is about 40 people here at san francisco city hall and they are here to take them to the ferry terminal near san francisco. >> workers have been negotiating for over a year over 45 contract sections and they have offered on the table and given back over $2 million and yet that is not good enough for the golden gate bridge board. >> reporter: and golden gate bridge ferry service is shut down for the morning as we have been mentioning but the plan is to take people who support those workers and there are some people waiting for that second bus you can see in the distance to fill up and there are union supporter member

going to join the picket lines. live in san francisco, allie rasmus ktvu channel 2 morning news. well there was a mayday scare at six new york city banks yesterday. envelopes containing white powder was sent to the banks including notes that ended with quote, happy mayday. they were evacuated and the powder turned out to be none testify particular. a fire insured seven people. after this fire started just before 6:00 last night. they say the building did not have fire sprinklers. the cause is still under investigation. walnut creek is expected to

make a final decision to change the city's nightlife. it would place an ordinance on all businesses who serve alcohol. there were several alcohol- related fights in the downtown area and several bar owners are opposing the ordinance and are threatening to sue if it is passed. civil people may be starting to fight new traffic tickets. things are happening everywhere. >> dave, we have a lot of things going on. first let's start off with a look at some of the regular traffic patterns, golden gate bridge, there is a report of a crash near the north tower and traffic looks light, i don't see a lot of slow traffic but as a result, police activity if

they are looking for this crash. and also this morning, the traffic is backed up for a 15 minute delay and i want to go back, new injury crash in concord, just north of 680, also highway 4 still slow coming out of antioch, moving the mass over to freeway and hayward. if you are driving to san jose and especially north to sunny veil. >> let's go to steve. temperatures 40s and 50s and yesterday we had low-to-mid 80s inland and that will not be the case today as we bring the temperatures down, bring them on down. redwood city 78 and today it's more lower 80s and lower 70s for most of these. 72 san jose concord and 74 in

santa rosa although they have a little bit of a southeast breeze and there are some cool readings but the cold front -- a cool front came by and that's all it takes. they are starting to move that cools down in the valley. temperatures in napa, i just heard from stephanie she is 46 and there are some cool numbers and a i am seeing a lot more cooler numbers. step outside with that fog and west wind, it feels cooler and tomorrow will be the same as today, mostly sunny and we will keep an eye on that system but thursday it will drop in and we will have some light rain to the north. yesterday was the warmest of the week and the cooling trend started and it will go from wednesday to thursday. finally golden gate bridge,

over san pablo bay, 50s and 60s and in fact they will be out of there for a while. clouded up on thursday and your weekend is looking better and a little warmer. this morning the auto makers reports u.s. sales jumped to 141,000 cars and trucks. monthly sales have increased from a year earlier and the biggest increase came from the 200 mid-sized sedan. ford and general motors reported their gaps. and they are currently ahead and he has been with that company and it has become known for the ever changing merchandise and it is hoping he can help turn old navy around.

sorry about the story of your friend, time for that rescued sea lion pup alcatraz and two of his buddies are getting a new lease on life. the search for the car is over. and there is a city street problem we want you to avoid, we will tell you more about that straight ahead.

. dow jones industrial average is down 20 points. and he will get his bright yellow car back and the starve several food network shows talked with us about the return of his stolen car as he was opening up the newest restaurant in san jose. it was stolen from a car dealership and investigators found it in a richmond storage unit last saturday as they were investigating a shooting. >> the police department in mill valley and the marin sheriff's department came through big. they did a great job and i am glad to see there was finally an end to it. >> police are trying to figure

out how there was a car still in that storage unit. a young sea lion pup named alcatraz was rescued in late march and he was malnourished and now he is healthy enough to be returned to the observe then. another two pups will also be released as well and that will be at 11:00 this morning. they will discover the sex of four falcon chicks and the chicks are over three weeks old and it is time to examine and band them. it is not hard to band them but the mother may pose problems. the mother and father are expected to fly back and forth screaming at him while he is in the nest. hey, sal, what are you seeing out there? >> well, we have a lot of traffic and a lot of slow

conditions where you should give yourself some extra time. traffic is moving along northbound 101, a little bit slow approaching the 880 interchange. we are backed up for about a 15 minute delay and remember there is a problem southbound with a motorcycle down. fso south most live clear and cool, mostly sunny conditions today cooler with 50s and 60s and some low-to-mid s. coming up next on mornings on 2, another midday strike affecting thousands of bay area riders. vandals on the rampage, stay right here with us. what'll it be?

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