she's out of the hospital after a bout with flesh eating bacteria and telling us how a small cut nearly cost her her life. good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. it's the kind of ordeal that's hard to imagine. tonight a bay area 12-year-old is recovering from a near fatal case of flesh eating bacteria. new at 10:00, debra villalon is live in sonoma county where it all started with just a small

cut on her knee. >> a cut that led to a life threatening infection. missy pendington had hoped to show her lamb at the fair. but missy is not getting around the family farm like she used to after she lost the skin on her right leg, almost the leg itself to flesh eating bacteria. >> yeah it was just a cut and they stitched it up. >> reporter: just a one inch cut above the knee needing six stitches. two days later, swelling, pain and fever and back at the local er the doctor rushed to air lift her to children's hospital. >> i knew i had to rush her.

>> by the time we got to the hospital, it was up her thigh and to her ankle. >> reporter: this is the metal missy caught herself on. the bacteria may have been on it but it exists throughout the area. >> it could be in your backyard, it's not just because we're on a farm. >> reporter: now that she's home, she is back to be home but missing her favorite sports. >> just waking up in the morning and going out to see my animals. i feel for my sister because she has to do everything. >> reporter: next up for missy, physical therapy as her skin graft heals. she says her inspiration is giant star buster posey who

undercame a long rehab. on her softball team, she plays catcher too. >> if you would like to help missy you can go to our website and scroll to web links. once there you will find a link to our facebook page with a list of fund raising events. when it comes to medical bills it's all about location. ahead in 25 minutes a map that shows how much more the bay area pays for common surgeries. it is a scathing report of the penn state abuse scandal. 267 pages. investigators concluded school officials ignored child sex allegations to avoid bad publicity. the eight month inquiry found for some 18 years penn state administrators allowed sandusky to prey upon boys rather than report allegations to authorities. the reports singled out football coach joe paterno, a university president and two other administrators.

>> our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at penn state. >> reporter: former fbi director loui freed led the investigation and says it'll be up to a grand jury to decide if penn state officials should face chargeless. c h a r geless -- charges. ktvu's amber lee is in moraga where she's been asking about the proper way to report incidents. >> reporter: we spoke to the

president here at st. mary's college. >> you can't take a duck and cover approach. you have to be involved, you have to be active. >> one, two, three shout it out. >> reporter: activities such as this rally to promote awareness against sexual assault are encouraged. he says covering up negative incidents to avoid publicity does not do an organization well. >> you deal with it or else things can spin out of control. >> there's this act of, i'm not doing it so i'm okay. we have to make it painful for people to cover up. >> reporter: she say it is culture of cover ups at institutions such as penn state

or the catholic church. the best way for an institution to protect its reputation is by being honest. amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. more details now in the eyes of some joe paterno who died earlier this year doesn't deserve to be honored any longer with a statute at penn state. and there's a growing movement calling for its removal outside the stadium. also nike says it plans to drop paterno's name from its memorial outside of its headquarters. look under the hot topics section. ktvu news has learned that

the prince -- principal of a san jose elementary school turned herself over to police. lyn vijayendran was booked in and then posted bail. she's the principal at san jose's ob wayley elementary school. the teacher craig chandler went on to molest another

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he was air lifted to children's hospital. he suffered head trauma, police say they did not site the driver. what if you could predict a traffic accident before it happened? a new technique being used by san jose police appears to do just that. ktvu's janine de la vega explains how an an alter rhythm can help police. >> reporter: police want to be proactive and test whether officers can be at an accident scene before it happens. >> between 3:00 and 5:00 there's a high probability of an accident here so you send officers out between 3:00 and 5:00 to hope essentially prevent it from happening. >> reporter: the department has teamed up with professor joe

moller from santa clara university. he created the alter rhythm that prevents where the accidents will happen. the method is being used to predict crime in morgan hill and los angeles but it's never been used on traffic accidents. these targets show police where the next accidents will happen. >> they will be given high risk areas to position officers corresponding to different time intervals, different days of the week and different months of the year. >> reporter: a team of traffic officers will start using this new predictive policing model in september after six months moller will look to see if police were successful in using this new approach. reporting from san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu news. camela harris announced a settlement of more than a half million dollars with three more

companies accused of fixing the prices of lcd flat screen panels. this new settlement includes toshiba. seven other companies have already settled bringing the total damage claims to $1.1 billion. that money will now be divided between 24 states and the district of columbia. a livermore couple pled not guilty in connection with a murder due to a meth lab explosion. evan avilas and lester houston were making hash oil when a flammable liquid exploded. their attorney says the murder charges go too far. the couple has been held without bail since their incident. riser likened himself to moses today. he said he didn't tell his

young children that they killed their mother to protect him. he said for the same reason moses hid the body of a slave master he killed in the sand. closing arguments can begin as soon as tomorrow. a 36-year-old that napa woman accused of killing her boyfriend is in jail tonight. when police arrived they found 62-year-old cali evans mortally wounded. they say that robin jivas stabbed him several times with a kitchen knife during an argument. evans died at the hospital. a double big rig accident brought traffic to a standstill on state highway 92 this afternoon. the crash occurred near half- moon bay shortly before 2:30 today. the trucks blocked a westbound lane for more than two hours and detours were put in place for drivers. news chopper 2 captured these

picture there were no serious injuries. authorities reopened the roadway just after 4:30 today. the battle lines keep getting stronger against ross mirkarimi. he's on one side, mayor ed lee is on the other side. and ktvu's david stevenson tells us why the mayor didn't mince any words today. >> it's totally false. >> reporter: san francisco mayor ed lee fired back hard at ross mirkarimi under allegations that the exsheriff lied twice. >> to try to create a conspiracy is the same strategy. >> reporter: mirkarimi's guilty plea to false imprisonment of his wife aliana lopez was reason enough to remove him. but mirkarimi says the mayor

may have perjured himself last month. the lawyers have agreed to have both women subpoenaed. saying besides the fact that -- this would be the equivalent of tampering with the jury. that jury includes alagi one of 11 supervisors who will determine mirkarimi's fate. alagi today said the claims are untrue. >> reporter: you did not have any conversation with the mayor? >> no, absolutely. >> reporter: in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. it did cool off today by a good five to 8 degrees. these are the average highs.

down a few degrees in livermore it was 94. there's some fog at the coast that's going to make it further inland in the morning. here's the computer model for tomorrow. tomorrow morning specifically. look at that push of fog. that's enough to clear the air off. and it is going to create better air quality as we go through the day and help fire danger. the afternoon hours we'll see things fire up but all of the heat in the inland bay valleys much cooler for us as we head into your friday. the bay area weekend just around the corner i'll let you know what you can expect in the morning. that dolphin in walnut creek that we told you about appears to have made it to safety. a volunteer went looking for it. walked the length of the creek in south san francisco and found no sign of the creature. marine biologists said the bottle nose dolphin appeared healthy. a low tide early this morning may have encouraged the dolphin to return to the bay. a french politician is

calling for a boycott of california wine as pay back for california's recent ban on froi gras. 75% of all of the froi gras eaten in the world was shipped to california. the french don't import much california wine, an expert says the boycott would not really help them too much. and back home, the nearly 70 year search that has come to an end for one bay area family. that let you move the tv around wherever. no siree, bob. who's bob? and if you didn't have a tv outlet,

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yahoo is apologizing after hackers managed to steal thousands of pass words. as robert handa tells us security experts say the data

theft should have been avoided. yahoo was dealing with an attack from hackers, a group took 140,000 users e-mail addresses and pass words. it appears others have also been hacked including aol, hot mail and comcast. >> it's upsetting initially when you find you've been hacked because you don't want anybody to undermine your reputation or send the wrong kind of things to your friends on your network. initially i'm upset about it, i wish they could rectify these problems quicker. >> reporter: another victim was more concerned. >> that account is supposed to be deactivated and if it's not, is there a way to try and trace that back to me because i wasn't the guy sending them. >> reporter: today yahoo released a statement acknowledging a security threat. and they are encouraging users to change their pass words.

>> this should have been handled much more crisply. releasing the information on the breech it was unfortunate timing given that it happened days earlier probably was avoidable. >> reporter: yahoo says it is still investigating. the hackers say the hack was intended as a wake up call. people have taken some of that information and are already using it. in santa clara, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. if you need more information we've posted a link to yahoo's security center just go to ktvu.com and control down to web links. yahoo still hasn't named a new ceo. the npr show all things considered is reporting that the yahoo board is still looking over candidates and that a decision could be

several weeks away. how much you pay for surgery depends a lot on where that surgery is done. the consumer advocacy group compared costs. patients pay 140% more in the areas of red for common surgeries. that includes much of the bay area. patients in the orange area pay 120% more, the green areas are less costly. it's been 68 years but today the remains of a missing world war ii marine from the bay area finally made it back home. family members were at san francisco international airport to greet the remains of james sisney. he died in 1984 at the age of 19 when his plane went down in the south pacific. he grew up in livermore and redwood city. his remains will be buried in two spots, in california and

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west nile virus is on the rise in contra costa county. and vector control is taking action to try to prevent it from spreading. crews are fogging several neighborhoods tonight. ktvu's jana katsuyama is live there right now with a warning from health officials, jana. >> reporter: the vector control trucks came down this street about 15 minutes ago to fog. officials are asking residents to do their part to help stop mosquitoes from breeding right here in their own yard. fog rolled through brentwood

tonight. a fine chemical mix, lethal if you're a mosquito. >> every year we do have a few cases of west nile virus and in the past in 2006 two people did die from west nile virus in contra costa county. >> reporter: this year west nile has been found in 20 counties, and over 100 mosquito and dead bird samples have been found compared to 90 last year. the virus is spread through female mosquitoes used to breed. >> i was concerned a lot about the foreclosure houses and the pools. in fact, this house a couple of years ago was in foreclosure and they left the pool with the water. >> reporter: and it isn't just swimming pools and ponds that

are the problem, even a cup of water like this is enough to breed thousands of mosquitoes that can affect people thousands of miles away. >> we would like to remind people to check their backyard for standing water and dump any standing water they have. please dial in and report neglected swimming pools. >> reporter: crews will be out through 11:00 tonight, and they urge everybody to use mosquito repellent when they go out. jana katsuyama, ktvu news. sheriff david livingston is set to outline plans for spending $2 million to increase the number of beds at west county jail in richmond. according to the contra costa times, the money will be spent on a prefabricated building to house 150 inmates. there's a strong presence

of law enforcement in north richmond after two shooting wounded four people near first street and west ruby. about 20 minutes a fourth person was shot about four blocks away. investigators say it appears the shootings are connected and are gang related. wells fargo bank has agreed to pay $125 million to settling a suit. >> the practice of charging minorities is not -- >> some of the settlement money will go to the borrowers who

paid more. the moodies credit agency downgraded italy's credit rating there. moody's dropped the rating two notches over concerns of deteriorating financial conditions in italy. it wasn't just concerns about italy that sent the u.s. markets down today. it was also slow economic growth across the world. the dow ended up losing 21 points after being down more than 100 earlier in the day. this was the sixth trading day in a row that the dow and nasdaq had been down. turning now to the race to the white house, a new national poll shows president obama maintaining a lead over mitt romney. obama with 50%, romney has 43%. analysis concluded that romney has lost ground in the economy in the last month. and many people questioned if

romney was telling the truth when he left his company. fortune magazine says it has documents that proves that romney is telling the truth. ktvu's rita williams tells us the city is cleaning up its downtown but that may not be enough to clean up it imagine. >> reporter: his name is not on the marquee in fact, oakland's fox theater was padlocked today but already there were signs president obama will hold a fundraiser here july 23rd. >> i guess i won't be meeting the president. i can't afford it, sorry. >> reporter: today city workers repainted curbs and crosswalks but it'll take more than spit polish to change oakland's imagine. >> it's pretty, i guess is the

imagine. >> reporter: demonstrators bashing windows and police response to protesters. >> you have to take the good with the bad. >> reporter: in the years since douglas smith and partners opened a cafe next to the fox theater there's been ups and downs now a big up. the restaurant is making food for the president's reception. >> we're hoping that he does stop in and visit us that would be awesome and we have a milk shake ready for president oe what. - - president obama. >> reporter: probably not coincidentally right across the street from the theater here at telegraph avenue, the president's reelection headquarters. there a couple was already checking out the neighborhood. there is one thing that

republicans and democrats agree on, they are united in their anger that american olympic athletes will be wearing uniforms not made in the u.s. but in china. >> i think the olympic committee should be ashamed of themselves. i think they should take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile and burn them and start over again. >> reporter: senator reed and others say there is still time for the uniforms to be made in the united states by americans. the uniforms were designed by ralph lauren. 55% support legalizing sports betting and taxing the proceeds. 35% are opposed to that idea. there are a number of proposals to allow sports betting. the ktvu field poll found that californians are legally divided when it comes to online

poker, gambling and taxing winnings. 49% support it, 45% oppose. the misstep that may have triggered a deadly avalanche. >> back here in just 10 minutes the cooling trend has begun. your weekend right around the corner. i'll tell you what to expect. and the milestone the legendary group celebrated today. kes me. this is so off course. nature can surprise you sometimes...

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the airline industry is forecasting a shortage of new pilots over the next 20 years. boeing expects there will be a need for nearly half a million new pilots as global economies expand. boeing says 69,000 of those positions will be in north america. and along with pilots aircraft maintenance technicians will also be in demand. boeing also says in some parts of the world there is already a

shortage. in news of the world, in france nine climbers died in the alps. one of the climbers may have accidentally caused the slab of ice to break off triggering an avalanche. in haiti hundreds of people marched in the capital to protest plans to tear down their homes. after 450 houses are marked for demolition to make way for construction of a damn. 15 people were killed and 11 others are missing. helicopters rescued some people who are trapped in the rising flood waters. hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged. it was 50 years ago today

that the rolling stones played their first gig at a club in london. now plans are under way for a 50th anniversary tour by it will not be held until next year because it wasn't until 1963 that drummer watts joined the stones. >> people still want to see us i think, i don't know how many but there are definitely people because i get stopped in the street. an exhibit opened in london featuring photos of the stones through the years. it also includes a quote for jaggers which says, he gives stones two more years, he said that in 1963. a year after a fire burns

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pedestrians replaced cars as the summer's first thursday night live street fair took over a four block area. attractions included live music and the farmers market. the event is scheduled every other thursday through august 31st. a berkeley neighborhood is hoping that food trucks can revive foot traffic. john sasaki was on hand this evening to find out if the launch of a new weekly event had the right ingredients. >> reporter: off the grid brought some of its tastiest selections to berkeley's telegraph corridor. >> it's small businesses, it's local, it's grown here, made here and people are trying to get up on their feet. >> reporter: they're parked three blocks from the uc campus

an area that has been struggling, mainly because many people no longer buy music or books. >> it's the lack of foot traffic because of the loss of anchor stores that is more responsible than anything else for the current condition. >> reporter: a big fire last november put three popular eateries out of business. thai noodle is set to open in a few weeks somewhere -- >> it's kind of hard economic wise. we hope everything comes back to normal. >> reporter: he hopes off the grid will come back. a turkish kitchen opened a few weeks ago and the owner is concerned. this business district arguably suffered its biggest loss with the closure of cody's bookstore. >> we know off the grid is

going to help bring other students back to the neighborhood to find out what's going on. we're hopeful. >> reporter: cody's is now being reconfigured with several businesses. john sasaki. a power outage hit parts of san francisco tonight affecting more than 10,000 customers. pacific gas and electric said it started just before 5:00 this evening until western edition, and laurel heights neighborhood. pg & e says it has restored power to some but nearly 3,000 customers remain in the dark at this hour. there's no word on what caused the outage or when full service will be restored. so you know it's the cool down today, you will notice it more tomorrow everyone inland where temperatures could be coming down 10 degrees, 8 degrees. cooler as we head into your friday. here's what's happening right now, you know it's going to be

cooler because right now in liver mother it's running a few degrees cooler than it was last night. the winds are coming offshore and they are pretty significant. gusting at 25 miles per hour. that's driving that moist clean cool marine air on shore. drops the fire danger, cleaning up the air and cools the temperature. sunday will be a little bit warmer but as we go into the weekend and beyond into the next week we're going to be in this pattern. we don't see any red flag warnings, any air quality issues for the next few days. the reason the air quality got bad, the compression of high pressure. the high pressure is gone. with the high pressure gone, not gone but it's leaving slowly there's a system to the north of us it's stretching out the fog bank. that's the key to the whole deal. that fog is coming up over the coastal hills, tomorrow morning and then again on saturday. this is the system you can barely see it right here that's the system that's triggering that fog. and that's why we're getting

cool and cleaner air and lessened fire danger. fire storms in los angeles. this is going to track it all east, if that were the case i think we would have a good shot of seeing showers in our eastern and southern regions through the bay area. shouldn't happen, looks like we're in good shape with mostly to partly cloudy skies. temperatures certainly cooler than they have. marching through the bay area microclimates, 68 degrees or so. mid-70s out toward the berkeley hills. low 80s where there were mid- 90s. mid-80s where there were upper 90s and lower upper 80s and 90s where there were 100s. the cooling trend is entrenched, you will notice it tomorrow as you send the kid off to do what they do and you come back to work. especially in san helena and vallejo. they were doing some big numbers out there yesterday but

not tomorrow. 91 in brentwood, 90 in antioch. that's still not bad. 90 in morgan hill. just nice temperatures, i guess as i get older i'm over the heat. i like it like this. when it's hot you notice it. a much nicer weekend coming up. >> you like to be comfortable. >> yeah, comfortable. a bay area journalist received special recognition today in san francisco. major --mayorr ed lee joined to honor bell davis. davis was the first black woman hired as a tv anchor in the u.s. currently she hosts this week in california. davis says she plans to retire in november from a career that started in radio back in 1956. some big news involving the hit tv show american idol.

steven tyler is stepping down as a judge. tyler made the announcement today just hours after fellow idol judge jennifer lopez revealed that she too is thinking about leaving. tyler says she's enjoyed by part of idol but feels it's time to get doing what he does best which is playing with his band aerosmith. kick off is 50 days away, will construction make it on time? you don't exactly have that green thumb. but your siding? that's pro. finish like a pro with cabot wood stains. cabot...that's pro.

boy the deadline is not that far away but uc berkeley's athletic director says she's still confident that memorial stadium will be ready in time for cal's first football game this season. that is just now 50 days from today and as these pictures from a web cam at the construction site show you can still see there's a lot of work left to complete. the $148 million stadium renovation project. athletic director sandy barber says there will be a kick off. >> whether there's a field there or not. >> that would be a story. mark is here now. giants are returning to action tomorrow night? >> a's in minnesota, giants

hosting houston. kind of easing back into the grind of the 162 game schedule. giants working out at the yard at&t losening up. following that extended four day all star break not enough time to get real rusty but the manager bochy making sure they can get a good start after that crummy showing back east. and mvp milky, ken, bochy kind of like a foul pop we're talking about. >> represent giants so well, we get going. to see how our guys played, of course with milky getting mvp. i asked him if i could borrow the car but he hesitate. a little clue as to why teams aren't really crazy about

having their players compete in the olympics. griffith sign with the cliffers, today tears cartilage in his left knee during the team usa practice. he will miss the olympics. other olympians fared much better today. scottie pippin with chris mullen on hand. lebron returning the favor, no luck for wilkins down the lane. i don't think the dominicans knew what hit them. james harden stokic got it to kevin durrant. up 40 points and still hustling as you will see here.

russell westbrook and iguodala will take it. yeah the dream team. and a record for the senior event. the open a 28, he finished 5- under 56. flipped it over to the young generation as the john deere classic. might be changes it to the george stricker invitational. three years has won it. look at this one from him. 665 four back of troy anderson who is the leader right now. big news at the tour de france no one gets busted for doping and if it holds up we could have the first british winner at the tour de france. wiggins sporting the y

ellowjersey following the 11th. >> that almost didn't seem fair. >> you will see a different outcome. there are teams that can compete. >> thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news, we'll see you the next time news breaks. >> the morning news begins at 4:30 tomorrow, they will be here till 9:00. ♪

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