times in the past. seemed like a straight shooter. >> reporter: we went to the company's owner's home. the company owner is based in kansas. he told me, without showing his face. >> i put that to his website online and he ships it to them. >> reporter: yoot white boxes contained car rims and that illegal drugs, including marijuana were shipped with the rims to customers. we could seen smell marijuana. they added that warrants were served and arrested mate in kansas and missouri. this corvette embounded today has missouri license plates. neighbors say they never noticed anything out of the ordinary. the company is called vrf metal fab. it's unclear how they were connected. neither the dea or the task force would talk to us on camera today. ktvu was the first to report that vehicular felony

manslaughter warrant has been signed against the bicyclist. the bicyclist, 36-year-old christopher buccarri, we are waiting to hear that he has been taken into cuss different you can see him here, recklessly speeding into the intersection and hitting 70- year-old hu su hui. the case gained attention after buccari blogd about the crash and and jokingly thanked his helmet for safing his life. officials are looking for the suspects who opened fire. news chopper 2 was overhead shortly after the shooting. both victims were taken to the hospital with gunshot wind. the extent of their injuries is not nope. the suspect or suspects got away by car, authorities say. when thieves broke into one oakland home, they passed up computers and tvs but what they

set their site on was even more valuable. new at 6:00, ktvu's rob roth spoke with the family about the heirloom the crooks took. >> reporter: what was taken from this family was irreplaceable. >> they left everything. >> yoo the couple said that someone broke through the window and took a suitcase packed with the wife's wedding gown and jewelry, hand made generations ago by their native tribe in laos. the couple is too afraid to appear on camera we spoke to them through interpreters. >> i accumulated everything through my life. >> yoo what was stolen was croats from the tribe. and there was a silver choker. >> they were embroidered by family members and it usually

takes about a year to make a set >> reporter: they had hoped to give to it their daughter when she marries. >> now, she has no traditional clothing to wear. she would not be able to be a part of any festivities for our families or for herself for her own wedding day. >> reporter: little else was stolen. laptops were left behind. police are investigating but a man who is active in the small mien community says that theft of traditional clothing is not unusual. >> programs they sell them to museums and pawn shops and maybe other mien. >> reporter: they have a message for whoever took their most prized possession. >> you have no use for them return them, because we treasure and value these items. >> reporter: now, all they can really do is hope. in oakland, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news democratic leaders in sacramento say they will have a

state budget ready for state leaders to approve. the plan balances the budget to smaller cuts in the services. they say eliminating a nearly $16 billion deficit would still take a bite from many programs. >> our budget will include significant ongoing cuts in all areas of health and human services. relative to the governor's may revision, it contains no additional borrowing or so- called gimmicks. >> reporter: the democrats' plan counts on voters approving the governor's tax measure on the november ballot. >> union members are keeping pressure on lawmakers to block $225 million in proposed cuts to senior care and the disabled. some 500 care givers filled the capitol for a third day of protest. about 50 people were arrested. 10 were arrested yesterday.

the governor's but the jet would cut the number of hours in-home care a person would receive. the democrats extends the current 3.6% cut. also the state capitol, teachers and students held a mock funeral for education. the group from los angeles has opinion taking this protest to community colleges around the state. the coffin is full of letters from community organizers and staff, protesting tuition hikes that have come as a result of budget cuts. cal tran announced it will hold a web net seminar on the safety of the new eastern span of the bay bridge. the webiner will give the public a chance to hear from bridge engineers and seismic experts. cal tran disputed a report of the sacramento bee that the suspension was inadequately tested. pg&e is hearing complaints from a neighborhood that it took too long to shut down a

gas line. tom vacar is live with answers to a tough question and why some are not liking what they are hearing from the utility >> reporter: pg&e begins by saying that a contractor who was working in this now covered hole puncture add gas line and started the fire. not yet clear whether there was a site walk shutoff valve or the intense fire mate it impossible to access them. pg&e then chose to dig into the street to shut off the gas from the lane line. this took almost two hours. >> within 10 for 15 minutes from their arrival on to the scene, they should be able to shut it off. if it goes as long as yesterday, you know, we are lucky it didn't cascade all up and down the street. >> reporter: consumer advocate mindy spat. >> it's a fire leaded burn. that's not what we consider a safe plan. the plan is something that gets put into place in minutes.

why >> reporter: why not shut off the whole neighborhood? >> it would take time for the gas to go down from the pipe and escape. that might take hours. >> reporter: in other words, the gas might have kept spewing and when the gas pressure was restored, hundreds of homes would have unlit fire lights with gas leaking into them. increasing the danger of fire elsewhere. >> we look to improve our practices and we'll be investigating this incident so that we can learn from it. >> change all the valves to be above ground or easier to shut off within a minute or two. >> reporter: viewers said that pg&e should respond and shut it off in more than 15 minutes. reportingly, consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news arson investigators on the peninsula say that an early

morning fire in the peninsula appears to have been deliberately set. flames damaged four cars and damaged six others. smoke and water forced at least 30 people from their homes nurses at ten bay area sutter hospitals are walking the picket lines today objecting to what they are calling unacceptable contract demands by sutter management. workers rallied just an hour ago. they say sutter managessers want reductions in health care, retirement and days off. in berkeley, nurses say they can't live with the proposed contract. >> the hospital is proposing about 100 takeaways that will eradicate the contracts that we had worked the last 60 years to get. >> a hospital says that sick time for nurses would not be cut, a claim that nurses dispute. nurses will be locked out until monday. this map shows the ten bay areas hospitals affected by the

workout including three al at that path facilities in oakland. nurses say they are working out in solidarity at petaluma hospital which is not sutter owned. and a woman who was admitted last week after being hit by a car, that happened late friday night at vialeo street and vanness avenue. she is described as an asian woman in her 70s or 80s, 5'2", gray hair and brown eyes. back in february, vick lounge was ordered to stop alcohol sales at 11:30 p.m. following a series of police calls and late night fight now. that the 90-day period has passed, the bar can petition to

restore the call to it 12:30. >> saratoga is home to several wineries, including cine bar winery. city hopes that the change will draw more people to downtown. >> the boy band, one direction is causing a fan frenzy. you can see the line of fans waiting to see them all those girls are excited. if you have not heard of them, you don't have a teen or tween at home. >> the fab five have a top selling album after being discovered on the x factor in england. they performed at nearly soldout shows. some fans have tickets that allow them to meet the group. >> i just want to hug them. i'm going to ask for a hug and try to have, like, a conversation with them. >> we are not going to cream. >> yeah, we're going to be all calm. >> that seems like it might be

hard to do. the group is set to open to oakland tomorrow. >> i think it was new kids on the block in my time. the new only in fran idea to give panhandlers a new day job. i'm going to let you know when temperatures are going to get near triple digits. we'll see you back here. and don't forget you can watch us live any time on our mobile ktvu app, just download it and click the live icon to watch all of our newscasts live on the go.

free, free syria. free, free syria. >> a small group of local syrians demonstrated outside the russian consulate in san francisco. they are angered by accusations from the u.s. state department

claiming that russia is giving attack helicopters to the syrian government. the russians deny that claim saying that the u.s. are giving weapons to the rebel forces something that secretary of state clinton denies this video of homs shows syrian force shelling the town >> it's unclear when the video was taken. the group amnesty international is calling on a cease-fire saying that syrian forces are dragging men from their homes and executing them in front of their family. we'll have more tonight on how the bay area syrians feel about fighting in their homeland. san francisco is launching a new incentive to get panhandlers off the streets. we have more on why dogs are the latest tool.

>> reporter: this program, they say, is good for people living on the edge and it's good for dogs once i saw charlie, i fell in love. they just brought him n he weighed about half of what he weighed now. tray was adopted from the animal county care partnering. they want to launch wonderful opportunities for occupant and fidos, woof. >> we have rowdy adolescent dogs that need some boundaries, taught to sit, come and taught not to jump on people. we have underage puppies that can't be made available for adoption until they are at least tenweeks old. >> the program is aimed to save animals and provide skills to low income families who may be panel handling on the streets >> we're going to train individuals to have skills as

an animal behaviorist. part-time employment to supplement an income and give somebody that they will feel good about, something that will help animals not being euthanized >> reporter: the program will exclude people with a history of violence, drug behavior. >> the entire neighborhood has adopted them. it's been 100% positive. >> reporter: woof launches august 11th and is slated to run three months. if successful, city officials hope to find more funds to put problematic pets with loving foster parents. linkedin says it added extra security following last month's breach. they added an extra layer of coding. the company said there have been no report of any of the 6.4 million affected account

being compromised. another sill son valley company is warning that the u.s. has a serious shortage of cyber security experts. reuters reports that the ceo of mountain-view based symantec says that the short am ace national security issue. u.s. governmental agencies are so short staffed, they try to poach top security experts from private companies. roman reed has been a paraplegic since 1994, after being injured playing football. he is the planning commissioner and plans the roman read spinal cord injury program. it would use a $1 penalty from traffic tickets to help pay for research. every dollar that we give out, $4 comes back in. this create hope. >> the foundation has received 80 million-dollar since 2000

but state funding was cut this quarter due to budget problems. they'll now move on to the senate. i just took a peek at bill martin's iso therm map and it's all red. i any that means it's going to heat up. >> yes, things will heat up. we are back into a very hot forecast. the fog cleared from the coast. take a look at live tracker storm 2 and you are looking at the fog that got pushed south. we have gail warnings offshore and that chews up the fog. the winds will back off tonight and that fog will fill back in along the coast. tomorrow will be like today these are the highs for today and similar highs tomorrow except 91 in antioch in the upper 80s. most will be in the mid-80s. rest of us in the mid-70s along the coast, going to be chilly in the morning and sub clearing in the afternoon. temperatures along beaches, upper 50s, maybe a couple of low 50s. tomorrow just like today. the long range forecast is

including major warming. forecast model for fog shows its return and shows it shoot can inland. not a major extent. you don't have all nine bay area counties with fog. that means that cool air is getting inland. you see the fog, there should be fog. but what you can't see is the cool moist air that's moving all the way up into the valley. there is a lot of cool air filling in. just because there is not fog does not mean that it's not cooling. lot of mild temperatures just like today. almost like the same iso therm map. this shows you the temperature that are equal. iso means same. so as you go through tomorrow and the weekend, you're going to see the temperature heat up in antioch, concord. this is what we are concerned with. we're going to see numbers

saturday bumming up near 100 degrees and we'll see a little bit of north-northeast winds and that will increase the potential for fire. we'll be watching that and, of course, we have some final before that all occurs. just as you plan, plan accordingly because it certainly won't be a good time to close down some of those parks if you have a father's day hike. check before you go this weekend. forecast for the five-day looks like. this much warmer for the week. i didn't stick 100 in there. i just didn't but i know you will get 100 somewhere on saturday. fire danger is the storey tomorrow just lake today. >> i'm guessing livermore, brentwood, maybe 100. >> i think, especially eastern livermore. >> thanks, bill. coming up on bay area news at 7:00, san francisco is now the sean test golf universe and could soon give double meaning to the words teed off and

drivers. >> reporter: street closures and traffic detours. we'll tell what you to expect this weekend and the 18 month old who tiewldly toddled away from this accident and golf. u.s. open does get started here at olympic club in san francisco. we'll hear from someone who very well could be a con tickedder coming up in sport. cçrrú

the u.s. anti-doping agency is bringing doping charges against 7-time tour de france winner lance armstrong. the agency says it has evidence that lance armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs. armstrong says that the accusationings are baseless, pointing out that the charges come two months after a government agency investigated without bringing charges. and mark ibanez is here. >> and wait is over. we are getting ready for people to tee off for real. tiger and company will go with phil mickelson and bubba. but there are other stories, other people teeing off. joe fonzi has been at the country club and fills us in with some of the goings on.

>> this year's field might have the best combination of jumping players and veteran players in the history of the open. the young represented by, among others, by ricky fowler who, until now, had been known most for his flamboyant clothes and coming close to winning. but there is no denying that the main group is the one that includes tiger woods. along with him in his group will be phil mickelson who has four majors to his credit but never an open. and bubba watson who has only one but the winner of this year's masters. so 19 major championships among the group. bubba was asked if the stature of his owe pope end will help. >> sunday at the masters, huge galleries. we've all played with each other before. they are not going to be focused on what aim doing. hopefully i'm not going to be focused on what they are doing.

we are all are going to try to hit fairways, hit the little greens and, how, two putt. it will be fun, thoament it's two legends. >> reporter: keep an eye on rory mcilroy, the defending u.s. open champ. and as often will be the case, keep an eye on somebody who we have not even talked about toey american. joe fonzi. mark, back to you. >> thanks, joe. seems like the first couple of rounds, there are some names that not everybody is familiar with. by the end, expect somebody in the third and fourth round to be over 30. the a's in colorado. thin air. last night, they had to come from behind. tonight, if they have to win, they have to do it again because todd helton with the bases loaded for the rockies unload the grand salami. rockies add another one and they are leading 5-2 in the 2nd inning. the giants hosting houston tonight.

full highlights at 10:00. that's the sporting life for right now. >> thank you, mark. we first reported it on ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. on arrest warrant has been issued for the cyclist accused of running down a 70-year-old man in san francisco. we'll have the latest developments on our 10:00 news. >> thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news.