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lorraine blanco ktvu channel 2 morning news. officers were trying to shoot and kill and inside they found an 18-year-old woman who had been shot in the chest. the woman was taken to alameda county hospital where she was pronounced dead. we had new information about what started a large apartment fire in the tenderloin districts. the fire was started yesterday evening by men doing plumbing working in the building. men from 12 to 14 apartments were severely damaged and can not be lived in and they started and worked from the street as firefighters worked from the apartment. >> i figured oh, maybe they will just let them in with my
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key but i went up there and our door was already destroyed and part of our apartment was nearly demolished. >> the building's owner said they will be offered a place to stay in corporate housing. >> they are back to normal after they came down on pedestrians. police tell the san francisco chronicle a hub may have become detached and snapped the live wires. witnesses came down injuring pedestrians. >> they were on the property. >> reporter: the wires carry 6 volts of electricity, they were hurt but it is not life- threatening. a boy fell to his death
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along a clifton sunday while say -- cliff on sunday while vacationing with his family. he fell at least 100 feet and there is no railing upon the cliff where the boy fell. al qaeda is second in command. u.s. commissions found they were the target of a drone strike that killed 15 people. if he was killed it would be the biggest blow to al qaeda since osama bin laden.
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they are not doing anything about the uprising in syria. and just a month after he took office, walker angered union members with a proposal for bargaining rights. they show they are in a tight race with milwaukee mayor tom bear. and they are heading to the poles, we'll see some changes on their ballots for the june primary, nine have no incumbents because the districts are redrawn. there are cephalocall measures on the -- there are several local measures and this may set a record for lowest turnout
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ever. they estimate no more than 6 million californians will cast in today's primary and that's just 3 5% of all registered voters and that will be a steep drop when the turnout was 58% and back then the primary was held in february. santa clara was busy and so far they have only received the 36,000 votes. it feels like everyone else has given up. >> i want my voice to be heard and i do feel bad other people don't come and vote because if they do complain, they have nobody to blame but themselves. >> the research institute says there are no compelling statewide problems and it will
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be decided by older more conservative voters. it will be different from past elections because of the open primary. this time the top two in each race will advance to the november general election no matter which party they are affiliated with. voters passed the open primary two years ago and it has been used for the first time today. stay with ktvu channel 2 morning news for continuing some of and we are starting election coverage throughout the day. you can get complete results tonight on the 10:00 news. union workers at the supermarket have voted in favor of a strike. 99% of workers voted yes to a strike. now this does not mean they will walk off the job immediately. a meeting with the federal mediator is scheduled for friday and they are asking for contexts contributing more to
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their health insurance coverage. is he is he -- >> the workers say they will have to freeze their income and pay for healthcare. they hope to return to the bargaining table soon. there is more fall out in brent wood. the families of suspended students of missing their final exams have hired an attorney. what is happening today to get school officials to change their minds. i want to head to sal castaneda to get an update on traffic, it is awfully early for me but are there any cars at this time of
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day? >> well, usually there are cars. welcome, we like having you here and let's take a look at 80 westbound and traffic is moving along well as you can see it might surprise you, cars are out there at 4:30 a.m. but traffic looks good from the mcarthur maze and this morning's commute looks good on southbound 880 and about the 5th street area or 16th street, there is going to be some road working in the left lane and it is light so it will not affect traffic that much. northbound a long 280 near bird avenue, they may have some lanes closed for some road working and it is not affecting traffic that much. hello steve. how are you? >> i am good how are you? >> you know i can't kick too high. >> i like that, we have some
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rain in mendocino county, we have some light shower activity some big time hail up in the mountains and we are pressed to find anything like this. it is a little resistant this time of year and showers are to the north but we are on the drier side, patchy clouds, mostly sunny but below average temperatures. they will be struggling in the upper 70s with a northwest breeze. 40s, upper 40s and lower 50s, you can see the rotation like a roman candle keeping shower activity going in mendocino county and in nevada northeast
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mendocino, i did go with a few low 70s and the days are so long but a lot of upper 60s which should be warmer than that. i think we have a new lead story and that should be 70 degrees. some clouds -- yeah, it is hot. mostly sunny, then another system roles in and then another system will move into the north and it will keep us on the high side with it on the coast. >> it will not happen again in our lifetime, and the fight over sheriff ross mirkarimi's text messages, details about his phone records. and there is an important ruling for california's band on same sex marriage, how proposition 8 could go all the
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way to the supreme court. good morning, if you are heading south, you will see some traffic here and there and for the most part it is light and we will tell you more about the morning commute. must be nice, cheering on team usa from the shallow end. back in '08, we didn't have these u-verse wireless receivers that let you move the tv around wherever. no siree, bob.
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thank you steve, it is 4:45 a decision could push same sex marriage to the supreme court. they are expected to announce if they will rehear a legal challenge to proposition 8 or send the case to the supreme court. a 4th judge for the 9th circuit decided prop 8 should be heard before several judges. judge will hear objections to a court order filed by the attorney to obtain sheriff ross mirkarimi's phone records. recordedly sheriff ross mirkarimi and his campaign manager texted several messages following the incident where sheriff ross mirkarimi bruised his wife's arm. his ethics hearing begins june
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19th. and a national day for justice for trayvon martin. it is set for 5:00 p.m. in downtown oakland. another is at 71st and international at 7:00. meanwhile george zimmerman, the man arrested for shooting trayvon martin is back in jail. a judge said he had misled the court about his finances an accident accident's attorney wants a new bombed hearing. his parents said that will set the stage for george zimmerman to take the witness stand. >> it is only his version of the facts that says trayvon martin attacked him and all the objective evidence shows he pursued trayvon martin and shot trayvon martin in the heart. >> he said the shooting was in self-defense. jury selection begins in the case of jerry sandusky. he is accused of sexually
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abusing 10 boys over 15 years. yesterday a judge denied a request that the victims be allowed to remain anonymous. they will have to testify using their real names. jerry sandusky has been under house arrest since december and has pled not guilty. we are learning more about the pablo sandoval's accuser. the woman accusing him of sexual assault is a 21-year-old resident of santa cruz county. they are still upper viewing witnesses and collecting evidence and they are finishing the investigation by the end of next week. they will not allow him to play 3rd base until he gets in better physical shape. and a group of seniors in brentwood are suspended for taking part in a prank and an attorney for 43 of the students claimed the students were
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unfairly suspended. the students took part in a senior prank that involved graffiti, and a goat chained on campus. but parents say suspensions during finals week is too severe. >> why come they not be allowed to go to grad night, but not a final. >> it is the totality of the event. we couldn't get started on the paint and in the meantime we are peeling off stickers and in the meantime we are trying to pleasure wash the paint. >> if upheld, some students will miss finals and that would mean they may not be able to attend graduation and today's hearing is scheduled for 10:30. that is good news for armature astronomers who want to witness venus and you will see a small dark dot which is
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the planet venus which passes between the earth and sun every 100 years. it will happen before 3:00 this afternoon. >> it will touch the edge of the sun here and it will cross from our point of view from across this line. >> the best way to get a good look is to watch through a specially shielded tell scope. and they say you will not burn your eyes and you will have somebody there to help show you where you need to look. more on facebook stock this morning and californians they still have awhile to go before summer gets here.
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. it is 4:52 starbucks is buying a popular bakery chain and they say it is a good fit since they are working to expand food sales. they are working to bring new offerings and they have 19 stores in the bay area. facebook will start trading at a new record low. shares of the company fell to $26.90 and that's down 3% from friday's close but there was a slight recovery when it was briefly trading at $26.44 a share. in the meantime parents are expressing concerns while facebook is testing out different ways to allow
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children under 13. but they are asking them to comply with federal law so that children under 13 could have access with parents supervision. >> there is a lot of bullying going on and it worries me that they are using it. >> it worries me, because the content is not seven-year-old appropriate. >> one option is linking them to their parents accounts which would comply with parents' rules but they are looking into how to best keep children safe online. and this is new video from this morning from a thanksgiving service at the cathedral in london. the queen will then be led by a carriage procession back to
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buckingham palace. the four day celebration will end with an appearance by the queen on the palace balcony. of course the one person who will not be in attendance is prince phillip who is in the hospital with a bladder infection. but he had said to be okay. i have much enjoy following the royal family. >> it must be fun to be in london and watch all that especially if you like to watch that stuff. i would like to be there, let's take a look at the commute. westbound bay bridge, you can tell it is different than it was today, i think your driving will be pretty good and you don't have to worry about any of that rain but it does affect traffic and today it does the not look like a factor.
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approaching the 880 split, we are going to ask him if we should be concerned especially if we are driving a high profile vehicle. let's go to steve. >> maybe some of the high profiles out of the northwest, 40s and 50s out of the northwest, a few showers up towards mendocino lake counties and the system is holding on for another couple of hours. it is not that strong so the cool air is did he have naturally in place. there are a few in mendocino and very high temperatures they are closer to 80s. mostly sunny, partly cloudy skies to the north, breezy at times, just a little bit warmer and mainly 60s and lower 70s, this time you get to june. 60s and 70s across the board, well below average across the
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board and we should jump up as we head towards thursday. it will be better but upper 70s for many. flip flops were not the usual snow gear but that's what people were wearing in the sierra in an unexpected snowstorm. it caught some people off guard. >> i knew there was a storm or something because the temperature was dropping and i noticed on the weather but i didn't know it was going to be snowing. >> it is not unheard of around the same time last year. it ended just hours ago, we have more on a suspect surrendering to police this morning. and which federal election monitors will they be keeping a
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