. trying to save a woman trapped inside her burning home which might have been prevented. a firing wake-up call in vallejo, how some neighbors came to the rescue during an early morning house fire. today it will be much cooler, we will have the details coming up. and why one lawmaker is trying to keep adelle cassie on call -- a delicacy on california menus. this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. well, good morning to you welcome to thursday, it is june

21st. i am dave clark. >> and i am pam cook, it is certainly a different day today. >> a big fog bank is back. only a few 80s far away enough from the coast. here is sal. traffic is moving nicely between novato and san rafael, no problems on the san rafael bridge or if you are heading to southern marin also westbound 24 and 680 walnut creek, there is some late road work in caldecott this morning that will make you a little late. let's go back to the desk. we first begin with a

story. tara moriarty is right near the uc campers, what neighbors saw and heard. roots neighbors described a tense moment when a young man in this green victorrian ran out screaming his girlfriend was trapped inside the house. he and some neighbors tried to save her but it was too late. flames broke out and witnesses say flames were hooting out of the back of the house where at least eight people were staying last night. neighbors woke up to the smell of smoke and the sounds of screaming. he and the young woman tried to save the woman but the smoke was too thick and they had to run out of the house. >> it is so sad because you know everybody has somebody who cares about them and you know

you can't help the tragedy, it looked like they covered her up on the stretcher. firefighters tried cpr but it was too late, she died at the scene. >> i encourage everyone, to check everything and an early detection of fire is what saves lives. the victims' boyfriend was taken to the hospital for smoke inn lallation. so crews. >> thorough to make sure there were no fires lurking in the wall. two people inside the house at the time are talking to the red cross and it looks like they have a place to stay. meantime, they are trying to

figure out what parked the fire. we are following another house fire, here is the latest on what happened, claudine? >> reporter: she is very grateful she was able to get her neighbors out. you can see firefighters are out here in vallejo this this morning. you can see the damage to this house as you take a look in the front window as above the try it home. they were very lucky to make it out. you can see much of that roof

is done, it they got out because of a neighbor who came home and told us she smelled smoke at first, didn't see anything went home came back out because she was concerned about how intense the smell was and that's when she saw the flames. >> flames on the roof just so big and i just went into like -- i don't know like -- i don't know how to describe it, auto pilot i didn't think to stop i wanted to wake them up and get them out. >> she was able to get them out. the thought of anything happening to them, still just mix it not be brought to tears.

a couple and her daughter all three make it safetily. firefighters will be out here for a while and do not know the cause at this point. the fire investigation will begin and we do know the fire may have started towards the back of the house but they don't know what could have caused it. next week congress will vote on whether to charger wreck holder in contempt of congress. california voters, governor jerry brown's measure would raise the sales tax and impose income tax increases on people who earn more than $250,000 a

year. the other option it would raise on everyone but the latest owners a sliding scale. it is not over yet. california's ban on the delicacy will start in july. and she is get being some support from local chefs. restaurants face up to $1,000 in fines if they serve it this month. a huge fire caused major damage. nobody was hurt but work crews were converting the building for next year's america's cup. now the fire is not expected to

have an impact on in why the race. >> and there should be no impact other than then on- sitely look. >> they are still not clear what started the fire. traffic is moving again and however that huge fire caused a traffic nightmare for several hours, just look at the picture. it caused probably him well into the night. they had to raise for the f- mount any line and service in potential directions shut down for several hours. it is dump the pump day so maybe we will see fewer cars on

the road. traffic is not all that bad around sand and you can see traffic is backed up a little bit and some of the lanes are moving through the fast track lanes and some are backed up about a five minutes delay. 880, no major problems in oakland and traffic is not that bad as we look across the peninsular, 280 is looking nice heading down to the south bay and it is the busiest freeway with slow traffic heading north. let's go to receive -- it will be much cooler and temperatures could drop from 15 to 20 degrees away from the coast.

cooler on top the wind has picked up, up to 30 miles per hour. one comes in today anand the we temperatures will be well below average as we head towards friday night and saturday. we will go to lower 70s and we will continue this cooling trends. not today, which mean 70s or lower 80s and if vac iville gets a westerly breeze, it is a pronounced sea breeze and

coliseum link trends, a really strong breeze will come as the first low gets closer, but highs today, fog sun and cooler and definitely windy at times. temperatures are coming way down the first full day of summer, yesterday it was hot, today it will be cooler. the trend will begin to bring these levels document and a cool pattern for this of time of year and a breezy pattern sunday and monday. a family is getting ready to sue the city, this case involves a man outside of his home and whether police response can be blamed. . >> the threat from outer space

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detector went off immediately, that may have saved the lives of the two people who live here. investigators want to know how the fire started. colorado planes were grounded by meteors. now the aircraft was bumping west of colorado springs after several media sightings and the faa could not cop testimony the report. at son burns reports house speaker john boehner is now taking the lead in this, allison? >> reporter: the speaker is preparing to bring contempt charges against attorney eric holder to a full house vote as early as next week. the oversight committee voted a long lines for failure to provide documents in the fast and furious gun running operation. they say the vote was unwarned

-- warranted to protect the documents. they went on and questioned the president's role. >> something must stink to high him develop for the administration to be willing to walk into this. it is the last minute of a controversial, cover up. we found out it will be up to the justice department whether to process him. allison burns ktvu channel 2 morning news. meantime the family of an immigration company, he was gunned down in february 20th 11 by -- february 2011 by

suspected cartel members. it was similar to the fast and furious operation. a family of a man found beaten to death outside his home is planning on suing the city. according to the wrong death long saw suit, he was found dead a short time later, daniel due which the was deemed dewitt. they are giving the okay on crackdown on bound tis. lawmakers were angry -- angry when they paid some of their players to hurt or knock them out. roger goodell met with lawmakers and he told them he is staking steps to eliminate

the bound tis such as suspending players and coaches and setting up an anonymous hotline to support those statements. 51 students were suspended from school after tying a sheep to a post and ran to the campus with their feet covered in paint a week before graduation. last week he promised to take a look. the group calls themselves oc u pride. with the groups bank of america and wells fargo, they say they should not be part of the celebration. organizers say it is a good

sign and progress starts with corporations can often be spread to the government. occupied members have not said what kind of protests they are planning just that it will happen during the parade. this weekend kicks off with a trans alert and the pig try ankle did happened at twin peeks followed by the dyke march at delores park. we want to check back in with sellment and when i think about that, i think about you with no mount any. a good way to get down there is to take muni or bart. a word to thewise. let's see what we have on the golden gate bridge, southbound 101 looks good and getting to the toll plaza is fine. i think people are happy to see

the fog, especially san franciscans, and we are not used to the hot weather. westbound bridge, it is a about attend manipulate delay but there certainly is a delay there. this whole commute is slow on 101 and 280. >> june and gloom is back. >> and all san franciscans i think they like this. >> some, i get e-mails and tweets, where is the sun, steve. fog continues to increase, a couple of low pressure systems are coming in, and yesterday the city was a beautiful 90 degrees. san jose 94 -- san jose 94 and

southwest 21, concord has gusted 29 miles per hour, vacaville, west southwest, southeast san jose under mostly clear skies, temperatures will be dropping as the systems begin to run up. the city's san rafael getting absorbed, that low, that is what is coming over us and this big whopper, it will carve itself, the lake county into saturday, cooler lows moatly sunny. it will be cooler by 20 degrees and some areas will come down. not much change in fact anything it will be cooler and breezy conditions takes us to

sunday and monday. >> thank you steve. the union apparently would rather just a bankruptcy court than a company. the pilot will recommend pilots reject when they recommend the final offer. the new york bankruptcy judge is expected to rule tomorrow to abandon the contract and adopt new couldn't it tract terms -- contract terms. the restaurant chain is serving a free deserted. people who right can get it and they are holding a sweep steaks for a trip to how which. >> and she was in tears and now she is getting support from around the world and that support is and coming in the

form of cash. good morning, on highway 101, as you head south we will tell you about the morning commute and bay area weather.

. 6:25, right now at the toll

plaza, it looks like people have already arrived there, about a 10 minute wait, nothing that bad, once on the bridge it does look good getting into the city. severe flooding washed outside walks in duluth minnesota, in one case a car was completely swallowed by a sinkhole, look at that as the saturated ground could no longer support the homes. as much as 10 inches was dumped on the city yesterday, they will try to figure out how the state can help. the jury in the jerry sandusky case could receive the case this afternoon. he arrived in court just about an hour ago for this morning's closing statements. coming up, we will go live to the courthouse for what we can expect today. supporters are coming in from around the world for a school bus monitor who was teed to the point of tears in new york city. >> oh, my g-d she is so fat.

>> now in this video they are calling 68-year-old karen klein, stupid, smelly, they are threatening to beat her up and her children probably want to kill themselves, they are saying. she said that really hurts because ten years ago, her oldest son committed suicide. >> i don't know if they can be judged. >> that video was posted on you tube and it was to take a vacation or retire. so far they have raised 13 $9,000. they are possibly pressing charges and the school district said the students involved will be punished. they are making a come back in antioch. they forced the city to cancel their fireworks show for the past two years but this year, a

private group raised $65,000. organizers say any extra money will go towards a fireworks show for next year. coming up on 6:30, a surprising admission for the anticrime program, what her top aid is now saying. >> investigators are trying to figure out exactly what parked a deadly overnight blaze. >> then we will take you live to the opening bell and find out how wall street is acting this morning.

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recognize the writing, that is because it is russian and it is from the educational programs they are talking about the economics and the economy there, russia and dutch economy in trade with the u.s. i ng, and the global market has certainly been the talk of wall street. we will have all the business news coming up. all right, thank you for joining us on the morning news, it is thursday, june 21st. i am dave clark. >> time now 6:30, we begin with developing news out of berkeley. investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a fatal house fire, tara moriarty is at the scene but what she is learning about the cause of fire, tara? >> reporter: this is just a sad morning for the people who live

inside this house, a green victorrian has now been roped off and investigators are trying to figure out what caused this fire. seven people made it out, one woman was trapped inside. her boyfriend ran out of the house when flames broke out and was screaming for help. his next door neighbor ran in but couldn't save her. >> it was incredibly smokey, i was concerned about getting out myself. there was no way any of us could have gotten in there. >> reporter: a few minutes later officers arrived and started rescue operations. >> when you come across a house with heavy fire or smoke knowing people are in the building something kicks in, you go into over drive, we work quickly and arable to just search to find people.

that is what our job does. >> reporter: now crews tried to resuscitate the victim, but it was too late. they were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. all the victims do appear to be in their 20s . as we said, we are trying to figure out how this all started. it appears in speaking to the victims they didn't hear anything going off but more things should be completed. firefighters in santa clara responded to a house fire near the campbell border. now the two people living inside the home did make it out safely. it took firefighters 30 minutes to put out that fire. today with engineers and up expecters, they will go back to

a house fire, they want to find out if it can be saved. there was major damage. the building was going to be converted and we'll see if the fire will affect the yacht race. some is coming up, and paul chambers is now saying you how big the problem is. >> i have had very little answers and i have tried to contact the mayor's office and i have not received a word and we are told the mayor is out of the country. we are told these figures about the 100 block initiative may be falls. this those the map and about

90% within that 100 block radius, the aid said that is not true. they doesn't know where the figures came from. mayor's aid are all in arms because crime was increasing in their area. they released one saying 90% of shootings cook place in 1300. it took place in bun of the most violent park. the majority goes beyond the 100 blocks and of course we are staying on top of this, from

the mayor's office, we will bring it live to you. a los gatos man is charged with beating up a priest and we will chose exam him today. -- cross-examine him today. he abused he and his brother during a camping trip in 1975. he appeared at the priest's retirement home pre-tempting to deliver a document -- pretending to deliver a document. all the while he beat him and shouted you molested me and my brother. >> we are glad for will to get his story out. >> now lynch faces elder abuse charges. well closing documents are starting in the jerry sandusky child abuse scandal in

pennsylvania. the former football coach is facing more than 50 felony counts. we are live outside in pennsylvania, here is more. good morning, dave and closing arguments are expected to start any moment now and this will be the last chance they have to go before a jury and they will be saying these young men were coerced into saying these accusations and they have been motivated by money. what the prosecution will say is that these young men didn't come forward and they didn't come forward earlier. san duck one of the cases has been dropped.

one is covered under other counts and two of them there is not enough evidence. so now he has 48 counts of sexual abuse for minors. >> so what can you tell us about the deliberation process itself? >> reporter: well what will happen is after the closing arguments the judge will give instructions to the jury records on -- jurors on how to consider the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt standard and then they will be sequestered unless they are other jurors and they will be looking at each one of these counts. >> we will be watching. 638 is the time, sal has

the details. 101 near popular avenue, this crash, i will put it up on the maps, southbound 101, let's watch from pearl game if you are just driving south bay, 101 north bay none are blocked depending on how serious the crash is. let's move along to some live picture dollars and i guess it is relatively not that bad getting over to sunny veil. let's go to steve. and good frog morning for san hoe day.

so a big cooling trends out to the delta. not only windy at times but it will last well into the weekend, weekend temperatures wit southwest already and we can say goodbye, much cooler today as temperatures, and the stronger one will start to set up shop. it is tough to break 100-degree temperatures but today with that southwest, up in the north bay some low ever 0s. you can see that system carving itself out and that will increase low clouds and fog, give us some drizzle into today

and tomorrow and it will be a much cooler pattern for a while. fog, sun cooler, each with the time it will be breezies smelly pie the coast and if you are very well replaced and conditions will be nice and noticeably cooler and we will have a pattern we could have used back in december or january but compared to last weekend it will be much different and big time cooling trends. >> people on the east coast are crying because it's still hot. he is accused of embezzlement. how he allegedly did it.

good morning, traffic is moving along well, we will tell you more about the morning commute and bay area weather.

. good morning, welcome back, here is a look at some of the top stories we are looking at. they are looking whether to charge attorney eric holder

with contempt of congress. holder can still prevent that vote from happening if he turns over at least some of the documents about the fast and furious gun tracking operation. back here at home, a woman died early this morning right near the uc berkeley campus. we are told her boyfriend and another person was hurt in that fire. from the windows they saw an orange glow and here a woman screaming. the top aid admitted the violent crime epidemic stretches well beyond 100 blocks. the key statistic that was used to sell the anticrime program was grossly inflated. a neighbor took heroic action in responding to an early morning fire in vallejo.

claudine wong has been there this morning and joins us from the scene, claudine wong? >> reporter: they are lucky to be alive this morning, you can see the damage to this court in vallejo, some of the residents will board up as much as they can but really the entire roof is gone. we want to show you some new pictures of the fire and this was taken by the first officers on the scene. the police officers were the first to call this in when they spotted it two miles away. they were not sure where it was but they spotted it and called it in and they said when they got here, the people were already trying to get out of the home but they went in and continued to get everyone out. >> the roof was hot, it was on fire. you can see flames were coming

from the vents inside. >> moments after the couple and their daughter made it out, that roof did collapse, by the time they got out, 100% of it is now gone. one of the reasons a rescuer is on the way is because a neighbor also spotted the fire. flames were so big, i just went into like -- i don't know how to describe it, auto pilot, i just started banging on the doors, i didn't stop, i didn't think to stop, i just wanted to wake them up and get them out. >> again, they were able to get out safely but the home is destroyed and all the photo

were heavily damaged. if we can come back out here live to the scene i want to take a look at the home next door and upwards. >> reporter: if you look at the two windows at the top of the house, the heat was so hot it shattered the windows and that was actually close and it was just sustained everybody -- sustained and at this point one of the challenges for the firefighters is that the roof collapsed and the fire collapsed the basement. the cause is still under investigation, ktvu channel 2 morning news, claudine wong. it is affected by a huge

waterfront fire. that started shortly before 2:00 yesterday afternoon on pier 29. nobody was hurt but the fire created a traffic nightmare. but the fire is not expected to have an impact on the race. they are not sure what started the fire. engineers are expected to go through the damaged building to see if it can be saved. a valley superintendent embases theeled -- embezzled more than 100,000 from the district. he said he used fake loans and false invoices to steal the money and make improvements to his home. the money had been earmarked to

install sole lore panels. it is a little pit small. they were blocking lanes and moved to the shoulder so the lanes are clear, i think they did a good job, southbound 280 still looks good and i would still take that. hayward union city looks good incase you are driving to drive but if you are getting on the road in pleasanton. we got over where one of the roads were opened instead of two and now both tunnels are open now in westbound direction. and in san jose, this traffic is moving well moving up to highway 17. let's go to steve.

now low clouds are moving in and i send it out. there is a pig fog painting on the cost san jose was hot and 94 degrees, san jose down 20 for santa rosa, 59, summer is officially here. 78 livermore and san jose will go from 94 to 70 degrees and you can see the fog is starting to increase actually and there is a westerly or southwesterly breeze all the way to sacramento. it is a sea breeze direction across the board, yesterday was calm, we had no problems and yesterday it was low-to-mid 50s. two lows, a weak meandering guy gave us that offshore winds and

now it is drawn in by that big strong system coming out of the gulf of alaska. it is picked up the wind machine, some cooler lows, mostly sunny but breezy and cooler, they are not going far. this looks to be the last day of 80s. 70s for many, down 15 to 20 degrees, low 70s on the coasts and the peninsular. temperatures will continue to slide and stay rather cool sunday and monday. facebook is losing its cool factor with teens. 18% of current teens prefer to check in on four square instead of facebook.

they are dragging new users for older age groups. moms and dads are using it and that could be why teens are turning elsewhere. a lot of talk about sam sunks new phone is probably giving them a run for their money on the new iphone. they are investigating a sewerage fire, and the flooding caused a tragedy at a minnesota zoo. traffic looks good and we will tell you more about the commute and the bay area weather.

. time now 6:55 a lot of animals were killed because of a flood in duluth minnesota. a small seal and polar bear made it back to the zoo with the help of emergency workers. back here at home, suspended sheriff ross mirkarimi scored a temporary victory in a fight to keep his

job. an ethics community ruled parts of a sworn statement is nothing more than here say and should not be part of this investigation. they have to rule whether the neighbor's video will be allowed as evidence. and they are designed to protect the working poor in santa clara county. county supervisors passed a law and restricts pay day lenders from setting up shops while the county works with new businesses. they can charge interest rates but the high is 400%. arson investigators are bringing in a crane to figure out what caused the fire at the oakland bart station. the fire also damaged bart tracks and led to the shut down for much of the day.

chemical engineers and he can no sufficient -- explosive experts will help with the investigation. on mornings on 2, we will be looking at the toll plaza and also in livermore, that commute is get -- commute is getting heavier. temperatures will be much cooler today, in fact a lot of 60s and $70 and as much as -- 70 degrees cooler. what we have learned about a deadly fire. >> also, a surprising admission, why the numbers of the 100 block plan do not add up, stay right here with us. ♪

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