claudine wong in today for tori campbell. despite installing a multi- million dollar system one year ago once again the oakland police department is facing a radio failure. this time it happened during monday's presidential visit. ktvu's tara moriarty joins us live with what caused it and what is next for the department. >> reporter: well, one lieutenant actually called it a train wreck, of course talking about the new radio system and they say they experience up to 500 glitches every month and that has to stop. [ cheers ] >> reporter: it could have been a disaster. >> please welcome the president of the united states. [ cheers ] >> reporter: while everything went smoothly on stage at the fox theater during the president's visit behind the scenes police assigned to his security were not able to talk to each other on the new radio system for 30 minutes. >> or officers have no confidence in it.

it puts officers and the citizens in jeopardy. the communications issues became serve an hour after mr. obama left oakland, when police were keeping tabs on demonstrators who lingered, occasionally blocking streets. the radios had been previously plagued by break downs and dead zones, leaving officers digital radios prone to blackouts but many thought that was fixed when the city paid 18 million dollars for a new system last summer. >> on a regular basis officers don't know when or where it is just not going to work, they hit the mic and it fails. the problem monday stemmed from the failure of a cooling unit on a transmission tower and wasn't until tuesday night things were operating again. >> i just want officers to be able to communicate with one another during critical situations and take away this concern we have with a radio system that doesn't work.

>> they are working with a consultant to decide if they should repair the current network or join another one. tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >> police in oakland are looking for suspects in a shooting. investigators say two people were wounded in the gunfire last night. both victims drove themselves to a hospital and are expected to survive. there is no word on what led up to the shooting. the violence on the streets of oakland is prompting city leaders to urge everyone to attend next month's national night out events. the rock parties are held in neighborhoods across the country to generate community support in the campaign against crime. both oakland mayor jean kwan and police chiefs howard jordan are hoping for a strong turn out on august 7th. new details on a story we have been following since morings on 2. police have called off a search for a suspected car thief there. investigators say the suspect

crashed a stolen jeep into a curb this morning then took off on foot. officers set up a perimeter and searched it thoroughly before giving the all clear. >> we are we are towing the car and figure out who is responsible for this. >> police are looking for a white or hispanic male 25 years old. they are investigating the city's third homicide this week. last night officers got a call about a car hitting a pedestrian in downtown san jose. when they arrived they found a man face down on the ground. he had been stabbed. paramedics performed cpr but he died at the hospital. there are no suspects and the victim's identity is being withheld. police say he is in his 20s. the suspect wanted for the killing of a young mother and father may have fled to southern california or mexico. last night police released this

picture of pedro medina, he has a grim reaper tatoo and the initials tattooed on his back. he is accused of killing the couple while they were at their home with their three children on monday. family members say medina had dated her. a mother on the peninsula is describing the moments as a car crashed into her house nearly missing her sleeping baby. it all happened in east palo alto at 5:15 this morning. and janine de la vega is live at the scene to give as damage inside that home. >> reporter: claudine, right now the family has taken that baby to a clinic to get her checked out as a precaution even though she seems to be okay because this was a close call for the family as you can see from all this damage. the car came barreling through this neighborhood into this house, crashing into a bedroom and leaving this big gaping hole in the wall. debris was scattered all over this bedroom inside this home

on cooley avenue. at 5:15 this morning a black cadillac crashed into the room just inches away from the bed and this bassinet where a girl was sleeping next to her mother. >> we woke up to the big headlights right in our faces and my little brother actually had to break down our door to let us out because it was jammed us because all we smelled was gas, so we just need toad needed to get out of there quick. >> police say it was traveling 55 miles an hour when it rammed into the room before coming to a rest here. it clipped the house next door leaving broken bricks and glass. gutierrez didn't see the people in the car but neighbors did. >> there was two guys and a girl in the car and they ran. they did not stop to see if we were okay. and they must have heard me because we were screaming, my brother all he seen was a shot

of them jumping out of the car. she is a cousin of the mayor, who came rushing to the scene. the children were injured and gutierrez had minor scrapes, when police arrived everyone had fled. >> people were saying the occupants, a few of them were -- left the area on foot, running to we immediately started checking the area and could not find anyone associated with this vehicle. >> gutierrez is grateful they are alive. and as you can see from all this damage this room is unliveable, so the family has had to make other arrangements for sleeping at least for the next couple of weeks. while they are grateful they are alive they are just hoping, too, that police will catch those responsible. live from east palo alto, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> the post is reporting a suspicious package delivered to the university of colorado's

medical school in aurora was a notebook sent by the alleged gunman in the aurora theater shooting. reports citing law enforcement sources say the notebook, which was sent before friday's shooting, was sent to a university psychiatrist and contained drawings depicting a massacre. the suspect recently dropped out of a neuro science ph.d. program at the university of colorado. tenants at his apartment building were allowed to return today. micro blogging sight twitter experienced an outage today for the second time in just over a month. visitors to the site were greeted with a message saying twitter is down. problems were reported nationwide for more than an hour, the company issued a statement saying its engineers were working to resolve it but doesn't go into detail. it comes one day before the olympic opening ceremonies expected to cause a spike in traffic. >> totally disgusted. hopefully they can do something

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the mayor of anaheim says he lands to meet with the members of the u.s. attorney's office and the fbi tomorrow to review recent police shootings, after 4 straight days of protests that turned violent last night. or last night was actually quiet. there have been 5 deadly officer involved shootings in anaheim this year including two this weekend. investigators are still trying to figure out who opened fire last night. around 10:00 last night they got calls of shots being fired in north richmond. they got there and found spent cartridges on the street, lawn and sidewalks and witnesses say it appeared someone was

targeting an office. so far no suspects. fire crews say a burning cigarette may be to blame for a fire in oakland. it happened after 8:00 last night on harrison. the fire broke out in a unit on the 5th floor. they found a mattress on fire and it took 20 minutes to put it out and the occupants have been displaced. friends and family are asking for help finding a woman because they are worried about her safety. clara francis disappeared yesterday while on her way to her grandson's house. she suffers from alzheimer's. you can see her picture there, 5'4," 102 pounds and wearing a red sweater and blue jeans. she was driving a gray chevy cobalt. the license number was 5-p-d-e- 9-1-1. pacifica police are also asking for your help to track

down a missing 76-year-old woman. maria janson disappeared yesterday afternoon last seen by her husband near their home. she does like to walk nearby trails, 5'5," weighs 105 pounds and last wearing yellow croc shoes. we now know why so many bart escalators are north working in downtown san francisco. it seems homeless people have been using those escalators as a bathroom. bart workers say they pulled apart the escalators at civic center and found so much human ex-creement they had to call in a hazmat team because it clogged up the wheels and gears. >> they just relief themselves anywhere you know. and if they had a bathroom, two or three on every corner that might help. >> part says its officers can only cite them if they see the crime being committed. a bay area natural food company has announced a recall

due to contamination. the san francisco herb and natural food company have pulled several lots. the company acknowledges reports its warehouse was infested with rodents. they sale over the internet and a message on its page said it was currently under construction. san francisco city officials are trying to get the word out about millions of dollars available to people who use certain payday lenders. the city attorney dennis herrera this morning was in front of the money mart on market street. he says people who received short-term loans from them are eligible for a portion of the 7.5 million dollar settlement for predatory lending. >> individuals across the state of california could file claims and receive up to 1800 dollars in reimbursement, make sure we get the word out in protecting

-- >> the money steams from a lawsuit that alleged the payday lenders targeted low income borrowers and charged illegal interest rates. federal officials are announcing the first ever nationwide crack down on synthetic designer drugugs. they started raiding shops like this one in missouri yesterday. they are rounding up people who manufacture, distribute and sell drugs such as bath salts and synthetic pot. >> they are all being busted simm mull tapously. >> you have seen it. >> i saw pictures f it. >> three places. >> 3 places and not just busted, no you are closed down, we are taking your stuff. >> they are targeting on-line retailers by intercepting shipments, it comes after that went into effect. they are not going to be allowed to send out food or packages until a rat

infestation is cleared up. inspectors placed an embargo and we told you about that and they sell those and those are being recalled from stores. also want to tell you about a case of animal cruelty, they found 113 dead kittens inside two homes, and also found cremation boxes with the ashes of 50 more cats. >> the training and experience that you have, you know it never fully prepares you for the things that you see. >> 50 cats were found alive and they were rescued and had to be treated for flees, ticks and respiratory infections, so far no arrests have been made. a controversial monument has been removed from the zoo. atheists groups have been planning to protest against this plot that featured the 10 commandments, the monument has been on zoo property since the 1960s when the zoo was a state

park. the demonstration has not been called off. check these pictures out. this trucker had app embarrassing tangle with a tree in san francisco this morning. this all happened al fill at fillmore and sacramento streets, it was wedged there, it looks like it pulled out and took the branch with it. a few firefighters with that chainsaw but then they cleared that up and the truck got out of there. >> the bay area has been cooling off over the past few days. in oakland this is the overcast. you notice in the middle portion of your screen a little bit of clearing and that clearing trend will continue at least in the short-term over the next two to three hours. take a look at our mapping system, a cloud pattern, of course hug in the coastline and patches moving into san francisco bay, around oakland and richmond and berkeley as

well. clouds will clear back and work their way west over the next few hours. for today we do have this, clearing to near the coast as we just said. tomorrow warm numbers inland. not a big change in the temperatures. then for this weekend we do warm things up just a little bit, but month major heat waves in the forecast. current numbers just updated fairfield checking in 70 degrees. san francisco at 60. san jose upper 60s at 69. we are in between two extremes here. this area of high pressure would be the source of heat but this has been the biggest player of the past few days, this low pressure, so today cooler than yesterday, temperatures cooling off about two to four degrees from yesterday's highs. as that high builds in we will warm things up a little bit to the weekend. it looks like sunday will be the warmest day. these are all just small changes with a little bit of a bump in the numbers over the next few days for saturday, sunday and into early next week. we will keep the cool temperatures for the coast side until the next few days. forecast highs this afternoon,

not a lot of 80s out there, warmest locations will be just barely making in to the 80s fairfield, antioch, brentwood, the clouds clear back to san francisco. partly cloudy skies for san francisco this afternoon. not complete clearing. santa rosa 74. you will see more 70s, even a few 80s toward pleasanton and livermore, wind speeds kick up, that sea breeze kicks in 15 to 20 miles an hour this afternoon. here is a look ahead. your five-day-forecast with your weekend always in view. you will notice temperatures remaining statistic for your friday. then we bump up those numbers for both saturday and into sunday and into early next week we could be tracking more low 90s out there. claudine, the key headline here, this time of the year we could be talking about triple digit temperatures, excessive heat not showing up in this forecast or long-range and possibly more cooling. >> still cooling. >> yeah, definitely you know that early you got to bundle

up. >> thanks mark. >> yeah. >> the torch is traveling past london landmarks on the second to the last day of its 8000 mile journey, 10 downing street meanwhile saw a visit from mitt romney. he has been meeting with their leaders. michelle obama is set to arrive in london today in time for tomorrow's opening ceremonies. take a look at this view. we want to give you an update on the work at the football stadium. the playing surface is going in as you can see from news chopper 2, these pictures were taken this morning. as you can see half the field, which is artificial turf is now in place. work on that field began on tuesday and will continue all week. cal football coach, head coach, says he expects the team to be practicing on the field by august 15th. well, tonight we will finally get our first look at the lighting design for the new span of the bay bridge, unveiled by the bay area toll

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all right. there is a look at your big board at this hour, the dow is up more than 200 points. it has been a strong morning all morning ever since the european federal bang president pledged to do whatever it takes to stop them from collapsing, including that. also doing well on the market today sprint, home depo and disney also performing well today but is is not all good news, two big names in the bay area are also the focus of well street, we are talking about facebook and zinga and one of them dragging down the other, facebook is set to realize its quarterly earnings. it doesn't come out until after the closing bell but the stock is not responding and people are not predicting it is a good report. we talked to people who said they don't use it as often as they did in the past. >> privacy is not that well, even can find you, everybody

knows all your information. >> i think that is what the next level of social media is how do we take it out of a party set or go in another direction. >> facebook also does rely on zinga for about 15% of its earnings, and zinga stock was down 40% after posting worse than expected results, facebook i am just looking at numbers now also still down. the company said the drop in players for its games resulted in a 23 million dollar loss, compares to the 1.5 million profit for the same time last year. this morning google revealed what it will charge for its long awaited high speed internet service in kansas city. kansas city customers will have to pay about 70 dollars a month for the ultra fast service that will pay for a gig a bit service which is said to be 100

times faster than a cable modem. they had a contest to see who gets it. they av 6 they have 6 weeks and google says they will only hook up where there is interest. today at 5:00 we told you it is all happening again, the policies experiencing problems with their radio communications, the latest during the president's visit. we will talk to them and see if there is a fix for this issue. thanks for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. we will see you the next time news breaks and join us again at 5:00. we are always here for you on ktvu.com and mobile ktvu.com, have a great day everyone. send comments to comments@captioncolorado.com captions by terry james, caption colorado, llc.

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