small billboard on brolin would drive commemorates the officers killed in line of duty here 13 years ago. the photo was prevented and the other is untouched. police and residents are outraged. >> there is a lot of citizens that love jim kapu a lot and miss him. we believe -- the big basketball team, we miss him and we certainly don't want to see that that. >> he was representative of the city, he was a good man. and this is to honor him instead of demoralized his memory. reporter: he was a 19 year veteran beloved in the department and many in the community as lieutenant whitney measured the growth of the high school basketball team he coached the police are asking the public health for finding whoever is responsible for this vandalism. >> within the last hour, sonoma deputies caught up the search for a man suspected of various

burglaries, robberies and leading deputies on a chase in a stolen suv. the man allegedly stole the seb in windsor this morning. deputies spotted him in petaluma and he took off on petaluma point raised road and ended up in the community of what acre in marion county. deputies used the stolen suv onstar system to track the seb to what acre at one point the deputies fired tasters at the man but missed. >> prior to fleeing the area he made an attempt to harm law enforcement. >> >> the search of the call that because authorities say the wooded area, the suspected hiding in, is to dent to go in after him. for the second time in less than 48 hours there has been an officer involved shooting in oakland. ktvu eric rasmussen joins us live at the scene of west oakland with what he has learned eric? reporter: julie, please say it turns out the suspect was holding what they say is a very realistic looking replica gun. they get taken down most of the crime scene tape out here but

some police are on the scene and in the last hour, the suspect brother showed up demanding answers. our camera was recording as the man had a heated conversation with police near the scene on 43rd street ear and chess that. he just wanted to know the hospital where his brother, 31 -year-old sean cherry was being treated. he did not dispute cherry could have been involved in the burglary at a nearby home. police say an officer shot him once in the shoulder when he pulled a gun, it turned out to be a replica. two nights ago a veteran oakland police officer, shot an unarmed 16 -year-old in the face while investigating a robbery. turns out rainer had nothing to do with it and today his family hired high-profile civil rights attorney john burris who says they will likely sue both officer and police department. >> .-dot officer misconstrued the facts or was trigger-happy, in any event there wasn't any basis to pull the weapon and certainly not any basis to shoot the

weapon. reporter: oakland police say they've launched a full investigation in that case. as for the shooting today police say they arrested the man and a second suspect who was found with the knife again back here live police finishing up their investigation the sergeant we talked to today said this has been a difficult week in fact we are told a chp officer was actually shot at while patrolling oakland last night. five in oakland eric rasmussen ktvu channel two news. >> police in san jose say a mistaken identity may be behind the shooting is set a disabled man to hospital early this morning authorities say at 7:30 this morning they received a report that the 34 -year-old victim had been shot near his home between south white road and mountain vista drive. police say three men in a blue four-door honda approached the man asked him if he belonged to again he said no but someone in the car shot him anyway, twice in the stomach. >> there has been evidence found, some blood located we are

trying to still piece the evidence together and make sense of it. >> the victims wounds are said to be nonlife threatening so far police have not made any arrests. >> us marshals arrested a fugitive wanted on numerous drug charges in berkeley this afternoon. in 2009 mendocino county avenue seized 600 marijuana plants from property owned by john david beck. at the time authorities issued a warrant -- [lost audio]. >> obote and talking about lassies in a great season as they look forward to hopefully what will be another good season brought. reporter: the celebration move from at&t park to nearby bars and restaurants all day fans,

ushers hotdog vendors everyone with a happy opening day like a national holiday and inside the ballpark it almost felt like one one. >> of the new season the fans are still celebrating last year were more time fans getting ready to celebrate the giants in fashion. >> i wanted to get sergio romo attention. my favorite place. reporter: a group of special fans lined up outside the park. >> raise another flag. reporter: they were chosen for the slack for the opening day ceremony. >> proud to be a giants fan holding up like up there. reporter: for many fans opening day is about making memories again passed down from generation to generation. >> it is the world. memories will last a lifetime. really great, we spent the whole morning together, cutting school

school. reporter: the success of the field is translating to success at the box office. already this year the giants have sold 2.9 million tickets, the team says this time last year they had sold 2.7 million seats. >> they get into the players in ways that are almost familial, so it is not pablo sandoval, panda,. >> my husband is 93, i am 89 this is something we enjoy doing and we love it. reporter: the celebration isn't quite over yet the special world series ring ceremony scheduled for sunday and for giants fans, the greatest show on earth is back in town. reporting live in san francisco rob roth ktvu channel two news. >> the california department of corrections is defending itself today following the release of a scathing report detailing inappropriate behavior by prison guards. the office of the inspector general released a report. it says prison guards groped inmates, brought them drugs,

sugar alcohols and solicited them for saks. a department of corrections for persons of the overwhelming majority of the 46,000 people working for the department are law-abiding but said she appreciates the oversight. >> it provides accountability for our internal affairs and department and for employees it be investigated and so this is a good system. as i said we are not proud of the fact we have employees who engage in misconduct. we are proud of the system we have to deal with that. >> the report outlines for the 100 alleged cases of misconduct at 33 prisons in 2012. >> police in south san jose looking for a man who robbed a wells fargo bank this afternoon. investigators say the robber walked into the bank near snell avenue shortly after 1:00 they say he threatened a teller, demanded money and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. police have not yet released a description of the robber. >> in a store you will see only on

2 the father of the santa clara county paramedic who was shot in the head in the oakland hills spoke with us today about the family's heartbreak one day after his son's death. roger boyer says his 34 -year-old son, quinn boyer married a fellow paramedic last year and just last week was accepted into stanford's program for physicians assistants. that was all lost when a gunman shot boyer in the head at the intersection of keller and hanson on tuesday. >> i have had two joys in my life. one was my daughter and one was my son. i have lost my joy for my son. >> please continue to search for boyer's killer his family has decided to donate his organs. >> state regulators today cleared the way for chevron to resume operation of its crude oil processing unit that was damaged during a huge fire at the richmond refinery last year. the announcement comes eight months after the massive fire

clouded the air with black smoke and sent thousands to the hospital, today, us chemical safety board representative said besides chevron's negligence and willful misconduct, too many underfunded regulatory agencies failed to prevent the fire. >> the case of the chevron refinery fire, the reactive system of regulation simply did not work to prevent but was ultimately a preventable accident. reporter: by the fact the refinery can now reopen the unit many community and environmental groups claim the refinery is still unsafe. >> an underground explosion in downtown san francisco launched a manhole cover into traffic, knocked out power to parts of chinatown and north beach for most of the day. the explosion happened on bush street at stockton around 11:30 this morning the manhole cover hit a passing vehicle, dented a truck. smoke and flames could be seen coming from the whole power is now restored to the area. >> officials from the port of oakland joining governor brown

on a trade mission to asia. supports acting executive director said to fly to beijing for meetings focused on development and direct air service between china and oakland. the port says that would bring $150 million to oakland. the governor's delegation will also visit shanghai before flying to china the director plans to stop in singapore and hong kong to meet with key oakland maritime trading partner. >> the superintendent of the oakland unified school district says he is resigning. tony smith notified the school board of his resignation yesterday. he says he plans to move with his family to chicago to be closer to his father-in-law who is in poor health. those who know smith say he will be hard to replace. >> the fact of the matter is he is a major-league talent and he will be heard from again and my belief and much higher places, i huge blow to oakland. reporter: the school board is scheduled to

discuss the resignation at its meeting on april 10. smith says his last day will be june 30. >> mild temperatures in the weekend i will detail chance of showers and parts of the bay area most likely to be affected. >> in 2 minutes of treatment for his rare cancer but one thing stands in his way. >> we have a spot reserved. but insurance says no because they are not in my network. reporter: only on 2 the details of his life and death battle with bureaucracy. >> channel two news at five all about coverage we invite you to watch ktvu channel two news at five everyday day complete bay area news coverage.

. >> in a story you will only see on 2 and nine bay area man riding for his life in the hospital but as our health and science editor john fowler reports that fight is with his insurance company which is refusing to pay for specialized treatment.

reporter: at children's hospital oakland today in a special floorboard 24 -year-old luis robbie showed me some of the painful and aggressive tumors killing him. the cancer is rhabdomyosarcoma, it is rare, current medicines don't work well especially for his internal and external tumors tumors. >> they didn't have a way to treat both at the same time. but, there was a clinical trial at ucsf. reporter: doctors recommended he take part in the drug file in fact ucsf is holding a spot for him in the trial specifically for rhabdomyosarcoma. his health insurance is through his father's work at sutter health. third-party administrator called u mr sent a letter saying since ucsf is outside the health plan network, only emergencies are covered and nothing experimental. luis says he was referred to

another dr . >> i said that the dr. have any experience with rhabdomyosarcoma? they said no. i am not comfortable with that. reporter: his oncologist of five years of the latest drugs could slow his deadly cancer and ease his pain. >> and, lived a very good quality of life. i think that is what we are hoping insurers will pick up on . reporter: his sister claudia says she made 20 calls to the insurance caseworker this week alone. >> i was sitting next to my brother while i was on the phone with these people and it was just a disregard. >> whoever's making the decision, they are not even doctors. so, how do they know what is best for me? i think they are being selfish. reporter: at 4:00 this afternoon after our conversations with you mr a

representative curb to me that sutter health will pay for luis today evaluation beginning tomorrow. no word yet on coverage for any treatment. health and science editor john fowler ktvu channel two news. >> president obama apologized today to california attorney general, let harris. the president created a stir yesterday calling her quote the best looking attorney general in the country during an appearance in the bay area. >> the president did speak with attorney general harris last night after he came back from his trip and called her to apologize. for the distraction created by his comments. >> attorney general harris is office issued a statement today saying quote the attorney general and the president have been friends for many years, they had a great conversation yesterday and she strongly supports him. >> how about this, after years of cuts summer school is being restored at california's unity colleges. the summer term at most junior

colleges was slashed by 60% during economic crisis. between 2007 and 2012 community colleges lost $1.5 billion in funding. money generated from voter approved prop 30 will go to the community college system with the aim of restoring faculty and classes. >> amateur fishermen gearing up for the start of salmon season tomorrow. salmon fishing will be allowed along the coast from kabul to the border with mexico. fishery biologist they were provided -- 1.5 million salmon will be in california coastal waters to the summer commercial salmon fishing is scheduled to start may 1. >> before we start off the day with some clouds of delay showers clouds cleared up now we have the clouds moving in once again you can see our light camera looking towards the francisco hartley to mostly cloudy skies still nice evening of the clouds will continue to increase late tonight as far morning. right now live storm tracker 2

the bulk of the rainfall of two north near eureka building and parts of mendocino county here's the latest images coming in tiger on the radar a batch of high clouds moving into parts of sonoma and the fog regrouping offshore as well current numbers for the 6:00 hour first we show you the doppler sleep dry weather pattern out there but at least for this evening we cannot rule out the chance of the drizzle or sprinkles. ten pitchers right now, 61 degrees in santa rosa, 63 san jose and concorde last check reporting 62. forecast headlines for tonight partly cloudy and breezily this weekend more cloud cover chance of scattered showers not going to be a washout but still tracking a few light showers this weekend and extended completely clear of clouds and warm up the numbers. first thing tomorrow morning coolest locations in the upper 40s to low 50s hayward 51 san jose 51 with clouds and fog and a chance of showers. we will detail timing coming up in a little bit. as far as overall weather it is

this an area of low pressure to the north and west generated a moist flow most up to the bay area but close enough to bring in clouds and chance of light showers, the highest chance in the north they especially up towards sonoma county. here is our forecast model showing you at 9:00 you see the light showers, sprinkles moving in tomorrow morning at 9:00 and lingering clouds for the afternoon hours. another week moved in sunday morning we scale back on clouds i sunday afternoon, at least at this point sunday afternoon appears to be the best part of the weekend. tomorrow a chance of a shower basically for the morning hours into the early portion of afternoon and temperatures ranging from upper 50s to over 60's for afternoon i. san jose 68 san mateo 62 and game 2 with the cardinals tomorrow with the giants, mostly cloudy skies temperatures around 61 degrees a bit of a breeze of the. five day forecast weekend always

in view chance of sprinkle or by shower for saturday morning and again sunday morning but look what happens by tuesday and wednesday clear out the clouds, temperatures by wednesday talking about a few low '80s. get ready for a big change about five days away. >> any rain down the line not much at this point but changing, april could be a fairly active weatherman. >> thank you, mark. >> coming up on bay area news of 7236 please call it a simple way to help fight crime now the tactic is coming under fire. some still think the cisco is taking its requirements to barnstormer today's setback for tech workers in a labor dispute with two silicon valley giants. join us at 7:00 on tv 36. >> giants home opener huge success we will tell you why pitcher barry zito is suddenly known as mr. automatic. sports is next. ñáçwçñ

. >> this portion of the channel two news brought to you by yosemite mariposa . >> new figures show californians getting another new report from the california department of health shows decreases in death but available to cancer and other major illnesses researchers looked at data from 2009 and 2011 compared it to 2,622,008. much of the news was good the

report did find an uptick in death from alzheimer's, suicide and chronic liver disease. >> marketeer with sports talking baseball you could not have asked for a better opening game for the same physical giant. >> beautiful let me give you an example in his last 15 starts, the giants have won all of them. remember a disaster it was when he first came to the ballclub up those days are gone as he pitches seven shutout innings as a matter fact the giant start about 26 consecutive innings without allowing an unearned run but they had help back say which you will the big i can move. a beautiful plate to help keep cardinals of the board to fund the don't have the playoff give both cardinals duplicates of molina of gold glove catcher follows it, loaded the bases with one out again followed with a four pitch walk. the only run of the game. giants bullpen was stellar again

as sergio romo 123 night although he had some nice help from hunter, not cooking but the pitch and defense on the ball, we are getting used to that. beautiful strike three there, giants take care of the cardinals 1-zero beautiful opener all the way around san francisco has won three out of four fred inglis in the giants clubhouse afterwards, and have a full report for spread? what is going on at at&t at this hour? reporter: mark, barry zito curveball back the zen master now running numbers only carl hubbell of the early 1930s could repeat for the giants, barry zito looking more and more like a 2002 cy young winner among that he was today. a much needed shutout performance through seven innings, he had three hits, three walks and four strikeouts and after the giants scored their one and only run at the

bottom of the 4th inning barry came back with a one to three innings with only nine pitches needed. giants, as you said are now 15 and zero with perry's last 15 starts that's got to be cool. >> i wish i could say i was locked in for 15 games but baseball is unpredictable, sometimes it is a grind and sometimes you feel pretty good and that also doesn't dictate the results but today was a battle for me to keep consistent with my pitches. >> a really good guy to have going on a day like this he is focused on what he needs to do doesn't let a lot of distractions mess with him because he understands it is a big deal but winning that game is probably bigger. reporter: batters are only one for 14 and scoring position so brian will pitch tomorrow to continue the scoreless streak. reporting live in separate cisco fred inglis channel two news. >> a lot of pressure on him we

should mention, thank you fred, santa clara has one the tournament and we have another bay area winner to talk about highlights tonight at 10:00. >> thank you. >> tonight on the 10:00 news a controversial policy at a bay area schoolwide new rules only to certain students. >> thank you for trusting ktvu channel two news we are always here for you at ktp .com and mobile ktvu. thanks for joining us have a great weekend. [ birds chirping ]

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