. a driver hits and kills a cyclist on the road and flees the scene but not before leaving evidence behind and we will tell you more about the search for the driver and the vehicle. and a surprising underground discovery made in san jose, construction crews unearthed what is believed to be an old cemetery. and ktvu channel 2 morning

news continues. complete bay area news coverage starts right now. good morning, thank you for joining us may 16th,th, i am pam cook. are you ready? >> i am ready. >> let's go to steve. >> i know exactly, it is cool not much of a breeze, highs today with all that fog in place, 50s and 60s, now here for an update with sal. >> from novato to san rafael it looks good on the richmond san rafael bridge and let's go back to the desk. police swath teams are -- s.w.a.t. team are responding to two

separate actions. while police at this hour are searching through homes in east oakland, these are live pictures and look at the police activity of right now. police are looking for several carjacking suspects and this is in oakland and again this is a staging area for police. police have been looking for them for the past couple of hours. they jumped out of their cars and scattered. police consider them armed and dangerous. we first started showing you this about 45 minutes ago and the police moved in and arrested a murder suspect. he is identified as 26-year-old todd gill lard. there was a $1.5 million arrest warrant out on him and he is

wanted for several murders. police in dublin are investigating a deadline hit- and-run. claudine wong joins us from dublin with new information and video you will only see on 2. we were able to move closer to where this accident happened. it happened a long willow creek and fall creek. as you can see it is a busy road and it is like that all weekend long. a man in his 50s was spotted by a car and was lying in the middle of this road, police responded and shut down this street. the man was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics and they are also trying to track down the driver involved in

this hit-and-run but they did leave evidence at the scene. >> a patrolman ran it and found it belonged to a 2010 mercedes mercedes benzs. they are still trying to figure out what the cyclist may have been doing. they are not clear if he was walking it or riding it. >> reporter: we don't know why that cyclist was not in the bike lane at the time. but what police are telling us for sure is there is no way he didn't know he hit somebody. again the search continues for the driver involved. wopping wong ktvu channel 2 morning news. in other overnight news,

they are investigating. the victim suffered a severe head injury and was taken to the hospital. at the same time another person was beaten with a metal pipe and he suffered a broken arm. no arrests have been made in either case. construction working is temporarily on hold now at santa clara medical center. live in san jose where crews were shocked. >> reporter: construction has been halted after workers made an incredible discovery while doing some digging at this site which is near the emergency room. crews here reportedly unearthed more than a dozen old coffins in the ground. according to old maps this used to be a cemetery that nobody working here knew was there.

according to multiple propers there are 1500. all the poor people were buried there between 1875 and 1935 and people here are surprised by this discovery. >> for the construct people to come upon that is way out of here and it should have been documented. >> reporter: because those coffins ararright in the middle of this working site, construction has been put on hold and they will ask the courts later for permission to have them identified and find their rel tis as well. we have calls in to county officials and to the construction companies working on this project trying to

figure out what the next move will be here. live in san jose, alex savage. they have a plan to take care of although city council does not like it very much. they are registering blighted homes once they send out a default notice. if they happen to be vacant banks have to maintain the property. the bank says they don't own the homes so they should not be held responsible. house speaker john boehner will not bulging on any increase in the country's debt ceiling must be offset by spending cuts. >> if the president continues to put principal before party and our economy is going to suffer. >> coming up at 6:15, where

house speaker john boehner is having lunch and things could be a little continues from those comments the proposal calls for this fall and if approved it is almost double the cost of tuition. they will vote in july and there could be more painful cuts if they approve governor brown's tax plans. muni for san francisco's youth is getting more support. a committee with the transportation authority voted to recommend $400,000 for by the lot program. the board had to approve the recommendation. a pilot program is expected to cost $900 million. the metropolitan transportation commission will take a vote next month on a $5 million

funding request. >> sal is back with the traffic, well it is doll well so far and we are hoping for things that will not happen. 880 on the mcarthur maze, it is getting busier and there are no major problems from chp between vallejo and berkeley. as i look at the list we don't have a lot and we have reported injuries on the bay bridge westbound and this is before treasure island so metering lights may go on early at the toll plaza. it is afford and hopefully they will get up there and move along quickly. highway 4 is slow in antioch

and also there is an injury crash which may be causing some slow traffic. we are looking at 880 westbound and that also is moving well. cloudy morning for most, no fog here in scott mountain. 30 for ben low man and even san francisco, and coal valley all around 48 and 49. everybody else is 50s and there are some clouds around and that cloud deck is going to be slow to burn off. 54 on the lows and 43 and it is going to be a tough process so 56 and 80 but that 80 will be

way out yonder. i am not looking for a breeze right now but once the clouds burn off it will get warmer but there is so much there. breeze will kick in later and another low has to burn to the north of us. then they will see a southwest and that's a cooler direction for them coming over the bay. i don't expect those to drop any, once the system drops here comes the next one and that keeps the fog machine cranking along. fog sun although most locations will be done, what is that 79, mt. view 65 gilroy 79 and upper 50s and 60s on the coast.

we clear out friday with your weekend always in view it will be sunny and mostly sunny and warmer. bay area agency is accused of polluting the water and we will tell you why this story is getting so much attention. why city leaders are demanding attention in this month's shooting in oakland. you may not believe this but it is tied to the death of a football star. ♪

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. welcome back time now 6:14, thieves broke into tiaina baul "junior" seau's home and stole some things and police think they got in through a dog door. police were going to maintain a memorial outside his home but flowers have been removed and his family is removing all the valuables inside. and more information about tiaina baul "junior" seau's death, he shot and killed himself with a 357 magnum. his girlfriend last saw him alive 4:45 that morning.

police responded two hours later to a shooting in his home. he had been shot in the chest. a final autopsy report will be coming soon. in less than three hours from now, president barack obama will be hosting a sit up to and house paper is drawing some battle lines, allison? >> reporter: do you remember that heart wrenching battle over the government that almost shut down the government and led to a lowering of our credit rating. house speaker john boehner is warning he will demand spending reforms that are bigger than any debt increase. the only way to settle the structural increase is to do that. >> i am not waiting for some higher office, this is a last

position of government i will ever have but i have not come this far to just walk away. >> reporter: tim geithner said they will hit the spending cap at the end of this year but they can use spending maneuvers until a new congress is seated but house speaker john boehner is ready to have this fight right now and we will have more on how the white house is responding. reporting live from washington d.c., ktvu channel 2 morning news. oakland city council is looking for the inn difference in the wake of a choosing. they shot and killed him two weeks ago and his parents claim they waited for two hours with no word on their son. the grieving mother was not given anything to drink or tissues to wipe away her tears as she waited. they wanted look for policies on how to deal with victims of

grieving families. he had cuts to the back of his head and two black eyes following his confrontation with trayvon martin. that is according to the information with george zimmerman's case. he saw his family doctor after he saw him. he is out on bail as he awaits trial. some emotional evidence in a case against sheriff ross mirkarimi, it is now headed for city hall. they suggested a video of sheriff ross mirkarimi's wife can be used and here is the tape. it shows eliana lopez pointing to a bruise on her arm as she tearfully describes a new year's eve argument with her husband. mayor ed lee wants to use it to permanently remove him from

often. they have refused to sang a minister. she reported yesterday and they voted to ignore the spars official send sure. they issued a rebuke after she issued same sex weddings when it was legal in california. the district may have to pay fines for polluting water used by almost 2 million people. the district could be prosecuted in order to pay fines up to 2 5,000 dollars in these oil spills. in january there was a 20- gallon spill at coyote reservoir. they say the spills are minimal

and the result of mechanical failures in hydraulic systems. they are trying encourage more people to live downtown. they agreed to give residential people dollars to move knoppeddings 150 feet tool -- move into 150-foot tall buildings and the goal is to get more people to move downtown. i told you about this last time, there is an injury crash up in the left lane and it does not look like it will be moved and the metering lights usually go on at about this time so they went on a few minutes early and i am just checking to see if they have anything.

we tonight really know much but we will be watching this bay bridge toll mwai kabaki plaza commute. today looks good westbound 580 looks good from a war -- ward -- from hayward to fremont, still problems on the shoulder let's go to steve. there is a little bit of supplement not bad, a big fog bank looks like it will be slow to burn off, 50s on the temperatures, santa cruz with a lot of 50s and one system is inching towards us and it continues to keep that fog machine rolling along. cooler local drizzle.

upper temperatures. 50 and 60s closer to the bay. then it looks warmer as we have more. construction on new homes is increased by more than 2. 5% in april and that's putting the number of new homes at 17,000 and that beats forecast by 27,000 but permits for future construction did fall a bit by 7%. americans are getting better about it, just 4.7 is more than a dozen days overdue. the number of credit cards grew so percent -- grew 10% and several of them went to higher risk borrowers. attacked from behind, what happened to an east bay mailman

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. good morning, they are clearing an accident from the upper deck on the bay bridge and those metering lights are on. a mailman was attacked while delivering the mail. he was on gilbert street and hayward yesterday afternoon when somebody jumped him. a neighbor found him slumped against his mail truck and he was grabbing his neck and moaning in pain. >> somebody could be casing you, knowing your routine and know you are not looking and come up behind you and let you have it. >> that is what they did, they jumped him from behind and pistol whipped him. >> was that could you wards -- cowards do. >> they may have been trying to

steal credit cards and information for identity theft. here is some information on why you should not text while you drive. at&t brought the device to a school. it straps on ahead piece and drives through a virtual neighborhood, then they are told to try to text a message. within seconds they veered and swerved and eventually they crashed. >> i thought it would be easy but it was hard in real life. i have texted and have driven. this is going on a nationwide draw. they are asked to pull over and stop if they want to text. scroll down the front page and you will find an icon and tell somebody else the story or make

a promise never text while you drive. 6:27 is the time right now. it is a controversial idea taxing sugary drinks, who is the law designed to help and why is it bad for business? a hit-and-run left a cyclist dead, the evidence that driver left at the scene.

. good morning, time now 6:30 markets are opening up and facebook is already in the spotlight and we will talk about that coming up. >> time now 6:30, we are following information in the east bay, looking for a hit-and- run driver responsible for a

deadly accident. claudine wong is live with more on what you will only see on 2. >> reporter: there is no way this driver did not know they hit somebody overnight and the victim was found in the middle of the rode by a passing car. i want to show you some video. it all happened at 11:30 and police were called when they saw this bicyclist in the road. he was pronounced dead by paramedics and all we know is he is a man in his 50s and police are now trying track down his family and here is what they told us about what happened. >> when they got here to the accept, they noticed a mail subject on the ground, apparently hit by a car and the

mail subject was riding a bicycle towards san rafael. once he arrived he was announce -- once police arrived hey was pronounced dead at the scene. >> reporter: police left evidence at the scene and was able to trace those parts to a 2010 or 2011 mercedes benzs. it should have front end damage and it is still unclear when he was hit. you can see a bike lane that par levels the road -- parallels the road. police are trying to track them down now and we know motor vehicle division is also trying to determine what kind of speed the driver may have been going. it is 45 a long this road and people are going sometimes at a

pretty good clip. police are hoping there are witnesses who will be able to come forward and if you have any information you have asked to call them. we are 0 following two carjacking suspects in oakland. they are accused of stealing a car at gunpoint and pistol whipping the victim. they crashed into a car on high street. police searched through homes in the neighborhood but the accused carjackers apparently slipped away and it is a concern. we now know the identity and we first reported this 5:00 arm m. he is identified as 26-year-

old todd gillerred. he was wanted for multiple murders and an attempted murder last february. it has now been two months since sierra lemar disappeared. they are marking this sad occasion and they will be heading out to other parts of santa clara valley. she disappeared after leaving for school on the morning of march 16th. last week they recovered a red volkswagon jetta they think is connected to her disappearance. hid rob any. later today he will attend a private fundraiser and he will return for the public national convention presumably and we just wanted to dip in

there hive on the campaign trail. meanwhile mitt romney is two steps closer to his party's nomination and they won nebraska nominations last night. it was a beauty contest and will not be awarded until the state's convention. mitt romney needs 144 delegates to wrap up the nomination and currently has 173. police were at the scene at an electrical fire at the warehouse. there were thousand the of marijuana plants and they started at 3:30 a.m. pg&e has cut off power to the area and there is a lot of smoke damage and spell are getting a warrant.

tara moriarty is already bringing us a live report with more mornings on two. last week they wroted 5-2 to place a ceda tax and if a -- soda tax and if approved, they say they will have to pass the cost onto the customers. >> soda tastes good but at the same time it's not good for you and we do have a lot of overweight and obese children walking our cities. >> it will hurt my bottom line big time and the cost of operating the business will be in question. >> the soda tax would generate an estimated 2 to $8 million and that money would be used to support sports pro grams. they are looking to full

the -- pull the plug on facebook ads. they can do better on the world's largest network and what does it mean? we will have an explanation coming up at 6:45. starting may 25th, muni will begin inn stalling a new track. light rail service will be shut during this time and bus shuttles will also be in place. it will affect jay church, 37 corbett, 43 masonic and the end owl routes. stage 4 starts at 10:35 and takes riders from the gold country to central california. it runs through mariposa to

clovis which near fresno and that's 130 miles. yesterday's stage went through mt. diablo to cheer on the best in the sports. he has won so far. thousands did start there and went to mt. diablo. they generated money last year and this year it was a stage finish for an estimated 15,000 fans. >> all the hotels are booked. you can see the impact downtown and it is a tremendous boom more livermore. >> take a look at this, they hosted an after party trying to make a world record by dancing in the streets to the monkky's

theme song. time now 6:38 what is happening in the south bay, sal? >> well, dave, pam as you drive on 237 you will see just a little bit of slowing and i don't want to alarm you but it is getting a little bit slow there and 880 and oakland looks good so far and that's 880 southbound on the left heading towards san leandro. and the morning commute at the bay bridge toll plaza was not that badly affected by a crash that was on the upper deck and it was 'uninjury crash and lanes are reopened. metering lights could have helped you out an extra five minutes, let's go to steve.

big fog bank out there, not much of a breeze and i expect that to pick up and there is still a component of a westerly breeze and santa cruz mountains are to the north with a little bit of sunshine and not much, some fog, local drizzle, breezy conditions once the fog burps off and that says cloudy, lots of fog and for san jose it comes over the bay and over cast conditions, 50s for many, upper 40s in san francisco and in the santa cruz mountains there is a bunch of temperatures on the lows. i am not buying the 80s but it's going to be well upper 70s that should be in the 80s. and one location will move in late tonight and tomorrow and

that's the source of even cooler conditions late tonight and tomorrow. breezy conditions will pick up and it will be cooler but petaluma 66 vallejo, same for concord walnut creek 75, 60 berkeley alameda and 76 morgan hill and milpitas, upper 60s for the pepsin colluding redwood city and woodside -- on the peninsular including redwood city and woodside. and for the weekend it looks better and warmer. what is next for the safe way employee praised for saving a pregnant woman's life. >> he actually kicked her. >> why his act of her ohism may

cost him his life. how crews unearthed what is thought to be an old ceremony and we will have more on what is next for this project. san rafael traffic looks good and we will have more coming up stay tuned.

. time is now 6:44 here is a quick look at the top stories, two armed carjacking suspects are on the loose and they are accused of stealing a car and pistol whipping the driver. the suspects ran right into a parked car in the 2400 block of high street. they were checked by the police -- homes were the area were checked by the police and they were not able to find them so they are calling off the search. and a murder suspect was arrested. todd gillerred was wanted for several murders and an attempted murder in february. there was an arrest warrant out on him. police in dublin are searching for a man wanted for a deadly accident.

a man with a bike was hit and killed. police are looking for a dark mercedes benzs with front end damage. a surprising discovery has stopped construction at the medical center. all level savage -- alex savage joins us live. >> reporter: crews unearthed a dozen coffins while working at that working site and they have halted construction at the santa clara medical center although we have seen some workers coming to the site and i have spoken with one of them and they could not comment on the discovery. nobody working on the project knew was here according to officials they believe there are potentially close to 1500 coffins underground. it was a cemetery for the poor buried between 1875 and 1935

and this morning as we spoke to people outside the hospital many are fascinated by the discovery. >> any time you dig there is history in america. america is a melting pot and we found some of the hiss tri, something else to look -- history and something else to look into. >> reporter: reports say the county will ask courts later this week to remove roughly 100 of the bodies so they can be i.d. dollars and relatives can be contacted. the rest of the coffins will remain untouched. we have calls in to santa clara valley and calls to the construction county trying to working on this project trying to figure what the next steps will be at this construction site in san jose.

ktvu channel 2 morning news. a safe way employee, the worker ryan young said he was in the middle of his shift when he saw a man beating up a pregnant woman. when the man refused to stop, the safe way worker jumped in and stopped the man from hurting the woman. police say he saved the woman's life however safe way employers disagree and say he did not follow store policy. >> it is a tremendous amount of stress and my wife is not well and i don't think anybody should have to second guess themselves or feel bad about doing what was right. >> safe way employers say they are supposed to report it to a manager or security about any problems in the store.

they do not know if he will be allowed to go back to his job. pam, we are noticing more cars on the road and highway 4, we had an earlier crash which has been removed or at least removed from the lanes but traffic is busy or slow in and antioch. we had an earlier crash on the bridge. chp did a good job and so did bridge crews do a good job at getting it out of the way quickly. and on panola, there is some slowing in richmond let's go to steve. >> they tweeted that last week. >> they were lasting. there -- laughing.

>> yes. they were laughing. there is a markup at scott valley and that's about it, low clouds and there is a big fog bank. and in the city 40s and 49 and in the santa cruz mountains a lot of 49s and by noon some of that fog will burn off and i expect that breeze to pick up, 56 to 80 and 80s will be further inland. 50s and 60 closer to the coast. all 50s here, 50 to 54 covers it and hayward 52 and 50s and 60s, that is the blue and the green and there are a few and mainly upper 70s for many, one

system moves out and we had high pressure and that will continue the cooler pattern and we will start to warm up over the weekend. misty conditions and it will be sunny and warm with 80s and a lot of 60s and 70s and near 80 for contra coster county and 60s near berkeley and all meet, 70 in milpitas, upper 60s on the peninsular, 50s on the coast and the warmer weather arrives by the weekend. facebook now says they will sell about 421 million shares and that does not include the 63 million shares underwriters can use to cover excess demand. new hampshire now it would raise nearly $18.5 billion. dow jones industrial average is higher and one of the stocks to

watch, target, that stock is up 2. 5% and that retailer posted good profits for the first quarter. they are introducing cell phone information and only 6 passengers will be able to use it and it is intended for certain situations. many can make calls and the end airline will not charge but they will have to pay international rooming rates which are pretty steep. >> you think your life is tough? try being an umpire. what happened to one umpire last night, you have to see this for yourself. >> praise for two brave heros what is next on the burping van. steve and i will be back

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. happening now, powerful winds in arizona getting even stronger in the northern part of the state whipping up wild files and here is a look, this is the gladdedder fire near the

crown king arizona. that fire began on sunday. we have been showing it to you throughout the week. it has grown to 2. 5 square miles zero containment. it has forced the sachs of dozen -- evacuations of dozens of homes and again this fire is live outside of phoenix arizona. the men are being called heros from rescuing people from a burning van. it happened at a shopping center in vallejo. bill putnam is a 70-year-old cab driver and he is one of the first people to jump into action. >> i knew it was going to go at any time. i knew we had to do it right away. >> we picked them up off the wheelchair ramp and set them on the ground. >> nobody was seriously hurt. firefighters say it was likely caused by the van's battery.

the breaker's race is this sunday in san francisco. a lot of serious competitors will be taking part and a lot of people just come for the fun. they will be tracking down on public areas and they are considering it for people who are already too intoxicated. red lori threw his helmet to the ground after the umpire bill miller kicked him out of the game for arguing. lori will be -- laurie will be suspended and then you see a fan throw a drink at the umpire from the stands and hit him in the arm. >> a little bit of rage there. coming up on 7:00, let's go back to sal. busy commute? >> yes, but nobody is angry out

from, we have a look at the east shore freeway, getting out to the mcarthur maze, west down bay bridge, there is a little bit of a backup and looks goodies spite that it was not moved. and upper 60s and 70s closer to coast and bay, we will have more and coming up on mornings on 2. an early morning fire may be connected to thousands of marijuana plants. deadly hit-and-run in the east bay, this is video you will only see on 2, stay with us, we will be right back.