a tragic accident in the south bay after a vehicle goes out of control. that's the top story. good afternoon, i'm tori campbell. we're following breaking news out of mountain view. a pedestrian has been struck and killed by a car. it happened just before 9:30 this morning california street in front of the maplewood

apartment complex. newschopper2 was over the scene a half-hour ago. you can see a gray sedan crashed into the side of the road. there are reports the victim was waiting at a bus stop when the car lost control and struck the pedestrian. a ktvu reporter is heading to the scene right now. we hope to bring you more information a little later in this newscast. and there's breaking news out of morgan hill where a gas leak has forced the evacuation of a preschool. it happened at west main avenue near del monte avenue. pg&e says a construction crew accidentally struck a natural gas line. it happened in front of the big redhouse learning center. this is a live look at the scene. you can see some construction workers and what looks like a ditch, possibly some construction work going on in the area. children from the preschool are waiting inside a nearby bank

until they can have their parents pick them up. claudine wong is live to explain exactly what the atf will be doing at the site of the b.a.r.t. fire. >> reporter: take a look behind me. you can see what they are trying to do is get rid of some of that scaffolding mangled on the corner of the building. this will be the scene at least for the next few days but there is an end in sight. the atf says this could be wrapped up by the end of the week and we may get some answers. the heavy equipment moved in as crews start to clear away the mangled mess that was the building's scaffolding. >> some of it is collapsed in. some of it is collapsed out. >> reporter: the atf says this is like a puzzle, one of the most complex it tackles. >> we're gonna take it apart. and we're gonna put it back

together. >> reporter: this morning crews began working from the least damaged area to the most damaged. if yesterday was about surveying and mapping, today, tomorrow and the next day will be about heavy lifting and once investigators get past the mess, they will start sifting through what's mex. the investigation is expect to wrap up by sunday and monday and the atf says it's possible we could have some answers. >> the straight answer is we could have an answer. the reason i tell you that way is because there's three determinations in the fire community -- one is arson, the other accidental and the third -- and the thin one is undetermined and sometimes we -- and the third one is undetermine and sometimes we run into that where we can't find out what happened. >> reporter: back here live, we all know how close these b.a.r.t. tracks one near the building. they wanted to move the crane in but they could only do it a

certain distance from the tracks. so they are trying to maneuver that. they think they have the logistics ficked out and the heavy lifting gets underway. and they are hope to being close to wrapping up with an answer. >> all right. thank you, claudine. investigators believe they know where a fire started at san francisco's pier 29. the fire began at:00 at the foot of chestnut street and did $2.4 million in damage. investigators focused on an electrical box where they believe where the fire started. they are looking for the cause now. they are -- no one was injured but the firefight halted traffic until early this morning. a two-alarm fire left a young woman dead near the uc berkeley campus.

the fire started around 2:30 on lorena street near shadock avenue. the young woman died in spite of desperate attempts to thank her. >> reporter: frantic moments for this woman at this victorian home street. >> i ran downstairs as fast as i could. >> reporter: the fire broke out at 2:30 this morning. >> the girl's name was meredith. we were screaming for her to come down and everybody had to get out. it was too smoky. >> reporter: and one man was trying to save his girlfriend trapped inside the planes. bob, who lives next door, ran to help. >> yeah, i don't want to glorify what i did. all i did was go in there and come out. there was no way any of us could have gotten in there. >> reporter: when firefighters arrived, they were able to get the woman out. they threed to resuscitate her but she i high died at the

scene. >> i felt the worse coming out of the house, just snowing that somebody was out there. >> reporter: foyer officials will be focusing their investigation on the back of the home where they believe the fire started and where the most damage seems to be. they are also looking closely at the smoke detectors to make sure they were working. none of the tenants appeared to be in their 20s. >> having a fire in the middle of the night, people are not used to waking up. i encouraged everybody. >> reporter: landlords are required to deep smoke detectors on all floors working, change the batteries regularly and replace alarms with new one -- with new ones. >> reporter: he told us that the home was properly equipped with detecters and an alarm system.

now investigators will have to figure out what went wrong. in berkeley, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. a vallejo family narrowly escaped what firefighters say could have been a deadly fire this morning. coming up in about seven minutes, how they were rescued by a neighbor determined to get them out of the burning house. there are new questions about oakland mayor jean quan's signature crime-fighting tab that focuses on the city's most dangerous 100 blocks. paul chambers joins us live with a new analysis of the plan and the numbers don't add up. paul? >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. the mayor's 100 block initiative was started with controversy and it's still receiving scrutiny. >> reporter: this map shows mayor quan's 100 block plan. in october, she said 90% of the homicides and shootings occur.

eight months later, it's now being reported that the top aide says those figures were wrong and a little more than half of the homicide and 42% of the shootings happened beyond those -- >> i don't know. i said publicly then you will be responsible for -- you take the credit or the blame. >> reporter: stats from opd show crime is up 20% with 54 homicides. councilmember de la fuente -- >> she just did this on her hone. she never consulted -- her own. she never consulted anyone. >> reporter: last week, they said ha tonally 20% of oakland's homicides and shootings took place in the city's most violent blocks. >> if you are gonna do it, do it in the right way. >> the worse part is you trying

to find excuses and -- instead of recognizing that the thing is not working. >> reporter: he says he hopes the mayor will work with the counsel and other city leaders on a transparent plan. live in oakland, i'm paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. thank you, paul. ross mirkarimi has gotten some news from the judge who said his neighbor's statement is hearsay and will not be put in evidence. this videotape shows elaine, his wife, crying as she shows off a bruise on her arm. there are -- there were unexpected delays at the trial of will lynch, the man who is

accused of beating up the priest who he says molested him 30 years ago. robert honda was at the courthouse. >> reporter: will lynch came to the courthouse expecting to hear more testimony from father jerold lindner. he faces charges for molestation. lynch for years has claimed that he and his younger brother were raped and sexually assaulted by lindner during a camping trip in 1985. lynch is being accused of perjury when he said he never molested the boys and lindner has gotten a hour to address that. it turns out a -- a lawyer to address that. it turns out a witness confronted the priest as he was being brought to the room. >> the only direct quote i could give you is, deb said

look me in the eye and she was able to look at him as an adult. >> reporter: lynch's mother hugged him outside of the courthouse, hoping that more victims come forward. >> she needed to say it. you've gotta get it out. these kids have to have their story. will's having these. >> reporter: attorneys are going to try to work out the legal issues stemming from this. back to you. state lawmakers may have a state budget in place. within the last hour, it was announced that jerry brown and democratic leaders have reached an april agreement on remaining cuts. legislators pass a $92 billion friday but the governor pressed for deeper cuts for welfare and other social services and

legislators are expected to vote on the full budget plan on tuesday. please come out. please come out. >> ahead -- hear more from a heroic woman who saved -- who helped save lives during a house fire. and mark tamayo is up in a few minutes to let ut know where you will meet a jacket in this chilly start to summer -- let you know where you will need a jacket on this chilly start to summer day.

a home smoke detector appears to have been a lifesaver in a fire in alamo. the couple safely escaped. there's still no word on how the fire started. a vallejo family was awakened by their neighbor this morning and rescued from their burning home. flames were spotted just after 3:00 this morning a at the house on -- morning at the house on roundhill court. another neighbor took these pictures of the fire. the first neighbor called 911. but before firefighters arrived, she said she went into autopilot to get the neighbors

out. >> i just started banging on the door. i wanted to wake them up and get them out as fast as i could. i'm like please open the window. please, please. i'm prayering. please. >> no one was injured. the tri-level home appears to be a total loss and the cause of the fire is under investigation. the child sexual abuse case against jerry sandusky is now in the hands of a jury. jurors began deliberations this morning after a week of prime minister sandusky's alleged victims. sandusky himself did not take the stands in the closing arguments this morning. the prosecution described the former coach as a pedophile. sandusky's defense attorney said there was a lot -- said there was a lack of physical

evidence. the lawyer for george zimmerman, the man charged with shooting tray vonn martin is releasing a treasure trove of evidence today. it includes video of estimate he -- zimmerman reenacting the shooting. >> i had my jacket. my fire arm's there. my jacket moved up. he saw it. i feel like he saw it and he looked up and said you're gonna die mother-[bleep] and i grabbed my firearm and shot. >> zimmerman has pled not guilty. and he's been ordered back to bail for lying about how much money he really had when his bail was set. it's dump the pump say. it's a day to encourage people to get out of their cars and go

into the transit. >> if you have a multi-car household and you leave one car at home, you could save $10,000 for your family. >> b.a.r.t. representatives handed out riders to those wearing a sticker. the tickets are worth as much as $50. at this hour, hundreds of low income children in san francisco are launching their summer vacation with a celebration of summer school. the kids are helping ed lee make a push for the program. more than 500 children and their parents are dakeing part in hands on learning activities. the goal is to combat summer learning loss -- are taking part in hands on-on learning activities. the goal is to combat summer

learning loss. >> they can help me learn beater. >> well, the advertised cooling trend right on track, a major drop off in temperatures because we have more low clouds and fog when we could even be tracking a few sprinkles by this time tomorrow. outside right now looking out from our san rafael camera, we have clear skies. cloud cover is still covering -- hovering over. as we come in tighter here, it can pick up lingering overcast. a thick deck of clouds. solid out towards san diego. these are some of the observations and very windy out towards the fairfield sustained at 26 miles an hour as a direction that imports some of that cooler air and you will

notice that big cooldown for today. major, gusty winds, tomorrow we could have some sprinkles out there. and maybe some popping up in the north bay. the weekend forecast features a weather pattern. tard the warmest location n mid- 60s out towards concord and livermore. san jose, 7 5 and -- 75 and look at san francisco and oakland. thursday and friday, temperatures coming down to -- coming down a good 10 to 0 degrees. and with this system moving in, you can see this will bring in more cloud cover and the chance of a few north bay sprinkles. showing you this, this is our forecast model, showing you some of the overcold front out there, still lingering near parts -- near parts of the shore line. that will take us into your

friday. this is late friday. a little bit of activity as we expand the view and show you this. with that, we do have that introduce the chance of a few north bay sprinkles. it's the weekend that will be dry. forecast highs this afternoon warmest locations only in the 70s out to brentwood, morgan hill and half moon bay 58 degrees. here is a look ahead. your five-day forecast, your weekend always in view. you will see temperatures -- today is cooler. tomorrow they will be cooler than today. a little bit of a bump in the numbers for sunday and into monday. but time to grab the sweaters and the jackets out there. 20 degrees cooler than today and more in store for friday and saturday. kind of a roller coaster in the temperature d this week. >> so different when we -- when we had the air conditioning cranked out. >> kind of fun to forecast. >> yeah. all right.

right now we want to to go back to our top story. breaking news in mountain view. a ped has been struck by a car. sal's on the scene and has this report. sal -- a pedestrian has been struck by a car. sal's on the scene and has this report. >> reporter: good morning. i want to bring in the spokesperson for the police department. can you tell us what happened? >> reporter: a vehicle hit a ped. it was determined the ped was -- hit a pedestrian. it was determined the pedestrian was deceased. the car ended up halfway down the block. pretty violent collision. we'll still working at what rate of speed it occurred.

>> yes, there is multiples withs in the area when it occurred and would are uncurrently working to make sure we have all of our statements. >> so far you are only releasing -- you are only releing -- you are only releasing that information? >> yes. >> i want to let you know is california eastbound is where it happened near escelia. a lot of people have been coming to look. remember, it happened at:30 in the morning. and just lie booking at it, the pitch was standing -- at 9:30 in the morning. and just by looking at, it the person was standing there and then you see the car all the what down at least 500 -- maybe 250 feet from it. took out frees. it looks like a very violence cent, one person is dead, we'll have more later on today --

violent incident. one person is dead. we'll have more coming up on the news at 5:00. and when we come back, we'll let you know why why the -- we'll let you know why the dow is down 200 points.

the latest unemployment numbers indicate hire something like throw stay flat. taking a live look at the big

board, the dow is down 219. a popular 4th of july tradition is making a comeback in antioch. budget problems forced the city to cancel its fireworks show for the past two years but this year a private group of residents and businesses raised $65,000 to bring the fireworks back. thank you for trusting the news. we'll -- we'll see you the -- we'll see you the next time news breaks. we'll we're always on at -- we're all on at ktvu.com and mobile ktvu.