. this is a high density area. kids going to summer school. the miracle and the mess after a construction crane collapses on a busy san francisco street. good afternoon. i am tori campbell. and new at noon, we are joined

at levin worth street to see where there was such a miracle. david? >> reporter: they are calling this nothing short of a miracle. right here, you see a collapsed street light. over there a bit of scaffolding that was taken down by the giant crew that you see the crew measuring. this all started at 7:40 this morning. they were working to renovate the outside of the arlington hotel. the crane on the sloping section of levinworth street started tipping. it scraped the arm of the hotel and ripped down the scaffolding moments before the crew was set to go up in it and it smashed and totaled the rear of the truck and they were loading the bed. the accident has kept the intersection closed to traffic for the last four and a half

hours as police continue their investigation here. >> this is the kind of high density area. people are milling around. kids are going to summer school. it is a miracle that no one was seriously injured at all. >> reporter: police tell me because no one was injured, cal osha was not called to the scene. they will make a report and share it with the department of building inspections which has an investigator here. san francisco is seeing a construction boone. coming up at 6:00 tonight. how they are supervising multiple accidents such as this one. reporting live, david stevenson. ktvu, channel 2 news. the jobs report for july is out. it shows there were more jobs created but the nation's unemployment rate also went up. 163,000 jobs were added last

month. however, the unemployment rate also rose to 8.3%. that's up voidly from 8.2 -- up slightly from 8.2%. >> we will explain how the candidates are spinning the jobs numbers. alison? >> as one analyst put it today, torii, this report is a bug dose of nothing's changed. >> reporter: within minutes of the july report, mitt romney sent out a statement saying it as hammer blow to struggling middle class families. then in a news conference, he placed the blame for high unemployment on president obama. >> a lot of people are suffering in the country. it is failure of policy, failure of leadership and moral failure. >> he seized on the positive. strongest numbers in five months and a million jobs created so far this year. >> they are our neighbors and family members fining work and the security that comes with

work. but, let's acknowledge, we still got too many folks out will that are looking for work. >> economic policymaker said the image in voter's mine is where the economy is right now. it is the last monthly jobs report before the convention in three weeks and it means the candidates talking points won't mean much. >> mitt romney is hoping they will look at the last four years and say it isn't good enough for me. i want to give someone else a chance. >> it gives him just enough. and it is not very positive. >> well the overall race appears to be deadlocked several polls shows romney with an edge on economic issues. reporting live from washington d.c., alison burns. ktvu news. >> they are taking an optimistic view. rallying to the highest level in may. like all the jobs created and the unemployment rate keeps

alive the possibility that they could provided a decisional stimulus to the economy. taking a live look, the dow is up 234. the nasdaq is up 64. s&p is up 27. if we don't get this. >> union members and recently fired workers at oakland international airport are rallying at this hour. why they were fired and what it has to do with the former employer breaking the law. a judge refused to set bail for william herrs, he is accused of molesting seven boys in the 1990s. he has been there because of the onset of dementia. he ordered attorneys to submit briefs and will make a final ruling next week. he ordered him to it stay in the san mat tate yo county jail

instead of returning to napa. he set a hearing to see if he is comp at the 10th to stand trial on the charges. >> they are recovering from minor injuries they received when they tried to make a traffic stop yesterday afternoon. she took off in her car. police say that when one officer approached the car. lisa hernandez was driving and she accelerated and hit him. >> officers chased her to a neighbor fearfully road and lucretia.m. avenue. they shot the cellphone video. she rammed a patrol car injuring another officer. that's when they took her into custody. >> she was sitting here on the ground and handcuffed and i think they hauled an officer away and the ems, and i was like wow. >> it hurt. >> herman did he see is being held for allot assault with a deadly weapon as well as

violating parole. oakland's police chief is renewing the call for a city wide curfew. he said keeping young children off the streets would help with the increase in homicides and other violent crimes. he is still working out the details of the curfew plan and hopes to have the city council cell pass an ordinance before the end of the year. >> he will stay and this is where i live. >> i have no choice to moved to piedmont or where. i should feel safe here. >> i was born here. we never had a curfew before. >> you think it would help? >> no. >> last year, the council failed to approve a similar ordinance by the police chief. police made a disturbing disrecovery during a raid in stockton. they found a picture of a 6-year-old in a car seat pointed right at the camera. they believe that is the swim

one recovered from the home on south drake avenue. two men were arrested. neighbors said it shows crime has gotten out of control in the city of stockton. time to get ready to head back to school in just a few weeks. big effort is underway to help those in need for extra support. >> they join us live from a warehouse. where volunteers are working hard to put together an amazing number of backpacks with crucial supplies. good afternoon, nanine. >> reporter: hi, torii. you can see hundreds of backpacks have been donated. volunteers are busy assembling the backpacks and the goal is to collect 15,000. >> they need people to buy supplies like these. one of the things they are short on is scientific calculators. it is being organized by the family giving tree. they are sorting through the backpacks that have been donated and see if the

necessary supplies are inside and if they have certain grade levels. they are donateed to 100 schools in the bay area out of santa clara county. they are low income and qualify for the federal reduced and free meal program. >> the students if they start cool without the materials we are giving them. they start with nothing and the budget cuts and everything effecting a lot of the schools, the teachers can't afford to pie everything they need for their students. >> we are told in the broughter bay area. 325,000 students qualify for the federal free mail program. providing 15,000 backpacks is a drop in the bucket. organizers say they have awaiting list of other schools who have under privileged children who need school supplies. you can go to the website at ktvu.com and click on web lungs. reporting live, ktvu's news. they closed the golden gate

bridge twice while they searched for a man that was seen last night on the bridge's cables. first closure did not turn up a man on the north tower. they found him after a second closure on the south tower. he is being held for a an evaluation. they protest the chain owner's position on same-sex marriage. the kiss-in is scheduled and it is to say that he supports the quote. biblical definition of the family unit. supporters of the rest transport held an unofficial appreciation day. they lined up for the chicken's store's sandwiches. it is at 5:00 this afternoon. i hope it continues and it will be easier with the blackout period. >> bikes allowed on trains

during the commute. why the normal ban was lifted. >> change in the area for the weekend. rosemary orozco will be here with how it feels in your neighborhood. wild chase through several bay area counties overnight. ahead, how it ended.

. police chase a suspected car thief across the bay area overnight. it started in pittsburgh and then to richmond and the bay bridge. can you see sparks flying from the suspect's car. tires blew and traveling on the rims. speeds reached 100 miles an hour. the vehicle came to a stop on willow pass road in concord, the suspect was taken into custody. one person was hurt in the north bay in a rollover crash of an armored car. it happened two hours ago on the 2200 block of lucas valley road. a brinks truck went down an embankment and ended up on its roof. one of the two people was taken to the hospital. a tow truck was brought in to bring in the brinks vehicle. they say the accident has been completely cleared. it was a tough commute this

morning on the peninsula. a gravel spill from a stent involving a big rig and car left three lanes of 101 closed for more than two hours in redwood city. it happened at 5:00 a.m. near while avenue. they cleared the travel from the highway and it is just before 9:00. >> no injuries were report the crash. >> congress is considering a bill to consider this from federal shut downs and seizures. barbara lee introduce introduced the legislation yesterday. it would align federal law to state's laws and allow for safe access to medical marijuana for patients. >> the introduction comes less than a month after the u.s. justice department served an asset for tight tour lawsuit against a medical marijuana dispense sear. >> bar -- dispensary. >> for the first time bicycles are being allowed on trains

during the morning and evening commute. this is part of an experiment that is happening on fridays. alex save veg tells us how it -- alex savidge tells us how it went. >> it is. >> we need to reduce the footprint and riding my bike and parking my car is the way to go. if you want us to do this more often, they have to allow it. >> reporter: bart employees passed out a number of passes. they had information on the bike friendly pilot program. every friday in august. they are allowed to carry their bikes with them even during rush hour. >> i hope it continues. >> reporter: he rides his bike and takes bart to get to work in berkeley. the current rules force him to

leave his house earlier than he would like. >> i can go a little bit later if i need to. and not worry about being banned and not to enter the station. so, it helps. >> reporter: bikes are banned because the trips can get too crowded. >> they say the solution is to designate a car for bikes. >> this is during rush hour and so, that would ease things too. >> over the next month, they will be gearing feedback and see if it is causing any delays or longer stops at stations. >> a bart spokesman told me there were no issues this morning. >> the board of directors will decide whether to lift the bike blackout permanently. channel 2 news. union members and group of whistle blowers fired are rallying this noontime. >> if we don't get no justice. >> their food service workers

at the airport. two of them worked at a subway sandwich shop were fired. they accused a non ondown shop of federal laws. >> they have not commented on the accusations. pg&e marked the technology research center aimed at the food service industry. technicians there conduct daily experiments to find more energy efficient ways for commercial kitchens to make food. they say the savings could be substantial from the lower cost of operating. >> the energy efficiency of food service equipment has really improved over the last decade or so. if you are still buying the equipment you would have purchased 10 or 15 years ago, you are buying an energy guzzler. >> it already objecting boys a

9,000 square foot facility and there are plans to expand it. >> we just have some big news in from the oakland as. long time catcher kurt salt lake salt lake can i has been traded to the nationals for another. >> he is a veteran catch are and played over sucks years for oakland and is known as a good signal call are. diehard giants fans woke up this morning. this is taken by a ktvu photographer. they started the party. it includes pizza. games. movies and more. >> yes, we have been here all 10 years and it is just as much fun as it was the first time. >> it is the major league ballpark. how many people can say they slept inside a ballpark. >> fans paid up to $225 to spend the night on the field.

a cooler pattern is developing for your weekend and for a select few, maybe the possibility of an isolated thunderstorm. giving awe live look outside our doors from the city towards the east bay hills and dealing with a few low clouds banking up above the coast. i will explain why in just a moment. the on shore breeze is a little slower and deeper. as a rule, it is a little bit of cool down going on out there. it is 63 degrees of cooling. s pacifica, cloudy skies and socked in good. it will be partly cloudy for the afternoon. 64 in should have. and 74, san jose. low 70s. in livermore. far inland areas really not feeling the influence of the marine layer as well as the on shore breeze just yet. you will. >> 69 in santa rosa. it is the typical pattern where it trickles in and takes it before they begin to feel it.

numbers will be falling off and we will continue to see the cool down. in addition to seeing the cool down, we are going to see thunderstorms over the sierra and parts of the central valley. even here in the bay area, we may see some. we have low pressure that will be coming from the south. that is what helping to cool us down. the high pressure is sitting over us and bringing us the hot, hot weather. >> it begins for saturday as well as sunday. by tomorrow, we will notice an increase in the mid and high level clouds. i mentioned a moment ago, we have the flow coming in this direction. if you are going to the sierra, a fire watch expected there tomorrow. here at home, it looks like the east bay hills may see a shower or twoful we will be tracking it for you. picking up this afternoon, you may notice, if you look ahead. midlevel clouds will be moving through. tomorrow, we see the impact. starting here in the morning. we are mostly gray.

even a shower. it is over mount hamilton or the southern edge of the diablo mountains there and it is really the sierra that will see the thunderstorm activity and weather watch expected there. partly cloudy skies. we will feel muggy for tomorrow. 77 in the forecast for today. petaluma 78. and 66 in sues lito. and walnut creek for you. and warm day inland. not as hot as we have been. and 80 degrees san jose. along the peninsula. 74 i san mateo. and low 60s for the coast. expended forecast. huge drop in temperatures for the weekend. you will notice the numbers. upper 70s. low 80s. o for saturday, sunday. below average for this time of year and we get back to a little bit of a warm up there. saturday could be interesting. >> cooler for the weekend.

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