tv KTVU Morning News FOX May 15, 2013 6:00am-7:01am PDT
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. developing news in the south bay and a information about a company that handles military contracts. and the search for a missing girl, this morning we have new video for searching her. we have been following this and it was a massive response at lockheed. >> this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. thank you for joining us, may 15th, i am pam cook. >> let's check weather and traffic. you think bundling up will help? >> yes. a couple of reports from
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martinez saying it is breezy and windy at times, gusts are 20 to 25 miles per hour and the cooler pattern continues, 6s and 70s more on that, here is sal. if you are driving bart is not affected by any of the caltrans stuff but caltrans is stopped on the peninsular and they hit and killed a pedestrian and train service has come to a stop here. caltrans is trying to make arrangements for passengers and right now major system we tee lays and they are trying to figure out if they will have train services continue. we continue out of sunny veil after crews are cleaning up at the lockheed martin
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campus. a sprinkler accurated -- activated the alarm and they encountered heavy smoke coming from one of the office building and they say the fire was electrical in a cubical and they are involved in making weapons for the defense department and because of that situation, it could have been a lot worse. >> there are certain buildings where we would have a greater risk to us so we did not have these concerns today. >> employees had to be evacuated from the building but no major damage and no injuries were reported. new information about mikaela lynch, the missing nine- year-old who disappeared from clear lake county. her teachers are telling us
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more about her so we can continue our search to find her. >> reporter: the nine-year-old is autistic and nonverbal so overnight her teachers sat down with ktvu channel 2 morning news to give us insight in how searchers should approacher. they say singing her name would be more affective than shouting it and that will help researchers find her. >> also new this morning and bringing her, that is a sign she wants to let people play. they also demonstrate the way she communicates. >> she says play bayousing her hands like this and -- by using her hands like this and ask for help by doing this and she is
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very clear when she is all done eating. >> we also have mikaela lynch smiling and she participate in track and field and loves soccer and a lot of different things and they say she is strong which they say should help her make it through this ordeal. >> she loves riding horses and people may be drawn to that where she is happiest. >> so this search is ending this morning and mikaela lynch has been missing since mother's day and they were up in clear lake at their vacation home. things usually scale back overnight and ramp up at daybreak. the next chick in will be this morning, live in the newsroom
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pack to you. a child was killed in a tragic accident. she was hit by an suv outside of park view elementary school yessed afternoon. -- yesterday afternoon, janine de la vega joins us from outside of the school, here is more. >> reporter: you can see people have left candles and flours and -- flowers and teddy bears. this little girl attended park view elementary right across the street, but what is unclear, we are told brief counselors will be at both places today. she was hit by the suv around 3:30 yesterday afternoon. she was walking with her aunt and 2-year-old sister to pick
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up her older sister. the driver did stop and is cooperating if but it does appear that they are angry, because they told us crossing guard are needed here. >> nothing was done and it was just dismissed out of hand and this is what happened and it could have been prevented much less expensively because you can't put a cost on life. >> the speed on this area is 25 miles per hour but it's not clear how fast that driver was traveling and many are being treated at the hospital and police say this is still under investigation. as of now we are not sure and
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we have been told by the district attorney's office about the precautions they will be taking at school from now on as well as reactions from the family coming up later on the morning news, reporting live janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 morning news. new this morning, a sex scandal rocking the u.s. army. a soldier in charge of preventing sexual assault is now under investigation for sexual misconduct. he forced one into prostitution and there may soon be other charges. the unnamed soldier has been reit leaved of his duties. eric holder is defending the department of justice and their secret phone records are saying it was in response to a very dangerous national
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security leak. the ceo of the associated press is disputing that saying and i am quoting we believe it is due to the u.s. government filling a plot to put a bomb on an airliner to the united states. we held that story nil the governor has more and coming um, the very tough questions they will get from republicans. sal is covering quite a few things in traffic this morning. i just found out our news chopper 2 has just arrived on the scene here. this caltrans fatality, this is -- these are live pictures of the track way in san bruno. caltrans southbound is 0 is hit
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and caltrans system has been stopped as you -- if you are taking caltrans they have delays and we just got word bart will honor those and i also have word caltrans has cleared and they are now going to start single tracking trains through the area and again this is a fatal crash in the area and we have major tee lays for caltrans. the only glimmer of hope. train number 3 will be there for the investigation and let's move along for the toll, 237 traffic is light, now 6:09 let's go to steve. well, it is a little cooler and for those of you who bow to
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that west wind, and some possible rain tomorrow keep an eye on the sky and temperatures are on their way down even continuing that theme. 73 today, santa rosa yes, we talked about this yesterday and i said if a north wind kicks in, it will go 85 or higher 78 and we will drop you to 74. sometimes it is one station that can mean the difference and that's what happened in sonoma county airport yesterday. patchy low clouds, mostly sunny and a couple of reports coming out from martinez, and yesterday afternoon, a cooler pattern takes us right into
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pillow arm tempts and the wind is out of the west and i have seen gusts out to concord so everything is in place for a rather blustery day and it is an on shore breeze, 52 ukiah, eureka, 54 and that's cool as well for them. there it is, you can see it, a lot of clouds, drizzle, maybe some light rain and we are looking at it with a couple of high clouds up muching in. cooling continues in fact maybe a couple testify 70,s and cool pattern into friday and a little warmer on the weekend. 19-year-old girl is still alive after being trapped 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed building. >> i kept sleeping off and on,
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labor started serving his sentence. he was working as a tour guide and he is accused of smuggling information while charity work. north korea is using bay as a ploy to get a visit from a prominent american to try get him free. workers around the world whoops to improve garment information. they add they are stepping up some of the areas making the clothing and they will not work with them unless some changes are made with several retailers. the young woman pulled from the rubble of the factory in bangladesh was strapped under
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the frack triwhen it collapsed -- factory when it collapsed april 24th. she said she couldn't see or hear anything and survived by eating biscuits she found nearby. >> i heard the sound of voices and i thought where is the sound coming from. >> reporter: she suffered no broken bones or serious injuries. she is weak and will need time to recover. she said she has no plans to go back there but is not sure of whether we will to next. they targeted conservative groups and congress will focus on that it at a big hearing, kyla campbell has more. >> reporter: they are putting eric holder into the hot seat one day after he ordered them
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to investigate the internal revenue service. they want to know who started targeting the internal revenue service and at first they blamed low-level employees but it shows higher ups were filled in and never put a stop to it. the internal revenue service a independent of the white house and they will investigate whether anyone in the internal revenue service were going after a them and they were not following through with their promises. >> you go right on down the line and we don't see people being held accountable fired and some people need to be put in jail. >> reporter: president barack obama does not have the authority to fire any employees within the internal revenue service and meanwhile still on capitol hill they say the acting commissioner lied to them, we will have more when i
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see you next,... kyla campbell. they are investigating a deadly stabbing and the man who was stabbed was rushed to the hospital but he later died. so far we have no other information on a suspect. by the end of the night, somebody could win one of the largest jackpots in history. powerball is the third largest powerball jackpot and the third largest among lotteries. modifications means there will be a jackpot but the ticket that started selling is also selling in california. your come knew the will be
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affected. we just got word from caltrans they have been cleared to single tracks due to the fatal crash and the transit system will be delayed still and you should give yourself plenty of extra time and if you can, you have an option to use something else and you may want to do that because of what is going on here. again this is a fatal train crash which happened in san bruno. they struck and killed a pedestrian and i want to go to our emoryville camera in oakland. i think that camera is there, we have an accident blocking two lanes at the mcarthur maze, this is 580 in oakland and a motorcycle accident and the motorcycle and car collided,
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280, they are blocked and 580 should be backed up into the lakeshore area. you will see a big delay this morning. let's go to steve, 6:20. it is kind of an eerie shot here, yon see the wolf howling in the background. the cooler pattern is here and in fact, clouds are end hassing -- enhancing the system coming in but mostly sunny later on but a cooler pattern is on the way and you can always tweet me and i will give you weather information. temperatures go way below average, san josely, napa 50s
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san rafael 51, a little cooler in the morning air and you can see clouds in advance of this system, cloudy with mostly cloudy skies and there will be drizzle coast and bay and we'll see if the light rain makes it, and a cooler pattern and 60s and 0s in fact mostly cloudty coo a cool pattern and a little better on saturday and sunday. the new procedure up ahead for angelina jolie am. >> and the focus on similar measures for other women. they are accused of using other women for handicap tour
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the family through the park on a motorized scooter allowing them to cut to the front of the line. they can bring up to six guests for a more cop veepian trip. we are talking about yell gel which is putting the spotlight among women. she found out she carries a gene that will give us breast cancer and the testing for that gene costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and while angelina jolie's mast ectomy has reduced her chances of cancer, doctors say it is not for everyone. >> because she did it, it does not mean it is the right decision for he have one.
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according to "people magazine," she will also have her overries -- avenue varies remove -- she will have other parts of her body removed. google may unveil a new streaming system. last year they introduced their tablet with google glass. >> boy, there is a maim caltrans service. >> yes, a train did hit and killed a pedestrian and investigators are still doing their work and the train has stopped and caltrans has approved single tracking through the area and they have started doing that but there will be major delays inequation
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cation will update them and me out of the way. 580 is a big mess because of a crash, let's go to steve. many locations are breezy to blustery and we have good gusts in some of the higher elevations and a few high clouds in the northern elevations. 60s or so and that may change in about 10 minute or so. -- 10 minutes or so. still looking for mikaela lynch who you think hope to improve their chances of saving her. we just got off the phone and we will bring you the latest information coming up.
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. welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news getting ready to ring that opening bell, there it is live in new york, the new york stock exchange is celebrating the aides walk in new york and they are drawing attention to that and we are also keeping an eye on tesla stock and that means people were betting against the stock and now they are covering it up and there is not a lot of buying going on with tesla and we will get you all of the business news coming up. >> we will smile and say good
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morning, middle of the week, crews are battling a stubborn apartment fire. if you got there 25 minutes ago you are right across the street from an elementary school, so what is going on out there? >> reporter: a family here was gracious enough to get these views of wed wood city and it happened 5:15 and the if we go to chopper video that was the seen, he tells me everybody was evacuated shortly after the fire broke out and at this
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point there are two major injuries and we understand one person was treated for minor burns and it is unclear what the other person was treated for but they were treated on the scene. santa clara fire department is here as well battling this fire this morning and lots of smoke is building from the apartment complex and he tells me the fire went upwards on the second floor and and they are attacking this on the ground as well as on latter tracks as well as the morning tips, let's did -- let's go to sal. a fair oaks elementary school, a lot of parents are trying to drop off their kids
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and i heard a tweet from one of the parents saying it is a pig mess and caltrans -- it is -- parents are saying it is a fatal accident and caltrans has been stopped and you can see there is single tracking and they will have service but it's going to be very, very slow and we will tell you more about this coming up and it is 6:33 let's go back to the desk. sunnyvale is now being cleaned up and tara moriarty has more on the damage and whether or not employees will be able to go back to work, tara in. you can see the ones park in front, there was quite a bit
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of mop up process. now the sprinkler system went off at 3:00 this morning. >> reporter: flames broke out in building 150 which does not contain any hazardous material so there is no danger to people and luckily nobody was hurt in this fire. they called it out and it is about 100 acres so it is challenging to find the fire and had to push through smoke to get it out amount what we have is water damage from the sprinkler system. >> reporter: they say it indicates the fire was electrical and since it was confined to office space and the smoke damage was not that bad employees may be able to return to work. lockheed is the largest defense
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contractor for arrow space and we will let you know if they provide us with any updates. new n-from sap frap for the first time the teenagers of mikaela lynch are talking about her because they want you to be able to connect with her. they are talking about this expanding search for mikaela lynch. >> reporter: this is a 24 hour effort but at 8:00 this morning it is expected to ramp up even more because that is when another group of volunteers searchers are coming through and we have new pictures and video in the hopes that the more we understand about her the better chances we will have of finding her. [ mikaela lynch laughing ] >> reporter: it is an
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infectious laugh you are hearing on this home video. she is autistic and is considered nonverbal which she will do to commune kate. and if you see her doing that, that is a sign she wants to play. >> she will ask for help by doing this and when she is hungry, she will do this and when she is all done, she will motion that she he is all done. >> reporter: the number of volunteers gets smaller overnight but crews are expected and theys also have a helicopter. the 9-year-old hats been missing since mother's day. they drove up to the vacation home in clear lake and mikaela lynch was reported missing that afternoon on sunday. her teachers have this advice
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for searchers. >> you can do more of a sing song way of calling her name. >> reporter: her teachers describe her as a strong little girl with lots of endurances and these pictures show her. that is her at the special olympics. we are keeping an eye on searchest and we will hear more for device if they spot it. time now 6:37 the brother of leila fowler is scheduled to be arraigned in court in connection with the death of his sister. they filed second-degree murder charges against the 12-year-old and right now he is being held in eldorado, but they say they will ask a judge if he can return home with his family.
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>> as far as staying home during the proceedings, we will ask for that. >> the boy bobby jindal naturally stabbed his sister. >> and now the governor unveiled his revised budget plan and he is providing more for a reserved fund. it is not enough for social services in recent years as some democrats have demanded but it now goes to the state legislature. lawmakers have until june 15th to come up with a spending plan. the federal deficit is now projected to come in well below what was estimated just a few months ago but it is 642
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billion john pillow its estimate. now they are having concerns about the bay bridge and they are grilling them about the bad bolts on the span. they want to know why they are using bolts which have been banned due to the risk they could crack. they are working on fixing the problem and one project manager said quote, the bay bridge still has a fighting chance to open this year. train 102 about an hour ago hit a pedestrian in san bruno during during the right-of-way and they did stop all service at one time and now they have single tracking and the train that was involved is still on
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the scene, so it is causing major delays alls pass years have been interviewed and transit police according to caltrans on that tweet. let's take a look at a picture involving a crash with a motorcycle and you can see the man was trapped underneath and traffic is backed up for at least a mile and look at the g through and if you are tt coming from 880, this is an unexpected advantage and 580 is a mess, something is very wrong, people are not getting through. it happened with sunrise and there is lot of cool
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readings coming in and lots of upper 40s and the puts were 37 miles per hour. 48 and we are foggy and 50s and there is some brisk readings. i mentioned this yesterday, if they get a north wind they will rock it up and they did, it went from 82 to 89 degrees and today will not be close. we have high clouds with more of a west wind and livermore 75, 74 kentfield and mostly sunny and partly cloudy skies. mostly sunny but cool and breezy. in fact a stronger one
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tomorrow. it will if i have us some light rain and come on now that cold. i have seen some upper 40s, liv jose 51, if jaun to take the dog out for a walk, you may want to bundle up. fso, there is a kicking high heel breeze about 30 miles per hour and things are cranked up. 52. town in the desert that a is system boyed and today and mostly sunny and the cooling continues temperatures are on their way down. 60s and 70s, dawn get much cooler on the coast and now very low 80s but a lot more 70s
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and maybe some light rain saturday . >> 6:42 is the time, more questions about locks of love and they say millions of dollars are unaccounted for. we are live in san jose and a family is grieving the loss of a little girl who was hit and killed, he will hear safety concerns that were previously reported. ♪
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. all right, welcome back, good morning to you, here is a quick look at some of the top stories we are following in red wood city at least two people are hurt burning a 2 story apartment building on oak side right across the street from fair oaks elementary. it is a mess especially for parents who want to drop off their kids. those injuries are considered minor. and the lockheed martin office buildings, firefighters think the fire started in
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everybody electrical -- an electrical fire. no injuries and no major damage is reported so far. and we have some new home videos to show you have an-- of an autistic girl mikaela lynch, they are getting ready for an expanded search and that resumes in a little more than an hour from now. she has an incredible personality and everybody falls in love with her. a tragic accident, the suv hit the little girl while she was crossing the street yesterday afternoon and that's when janine de la vega joins us, she is outside the cool where a memorial -- school, where a memorial is. they are just shaking their heads as they look town and they see all of these markings
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from this accident and she died very close to crosswalk henepark view elementary school. >> reporter: we don't know if she was walking in it and there you see the crosswalk but we don't know if she was walking in it when the accident happened. an suv killed the girl an injured her aunt and two-year- old sister while trying to pick up an older sibelling. the aunt analysis are being treat -- and sister are being treated and grieve counselors will be there. the family is other come with grieve. >> my little cousin, she was just a very happy girl.
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it is very hard. >> reporter: police say the driver stopped and is cooperating with police at this point and investigators do not think alcohol and drugs played a factor, but it is unknown if speed played a factor and this is a big issue with neighbors. neighbors tell us they have constantly gone down this road and they are hoping something gets done as far as crossing guards and i just spoke with city council and we plan on talking with him, he is very upset and we will hear from him later on mornings on 2. ktvu channel 2 morning news janine de la vega. a critical review over
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locks of love is causing confusion and they use that to make wigs. a report by a group found florida based locks of love cannot aaccount for many donations and according to them, it takes 219 donations -- 319 donations and others say they only require 19. they made the money selling unusable hair and according to these claims, you are not having any phoneme. >> what people have been getting through and you canee
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it is light you about we are watching it with our camera so if after you little bit of time you will see this get busier and i am seeing it with my very own eyes and more and more people are arriving at the toll plaza. take a look at interstate 880 north and it looks good driving through. the traffic here is not all that bad and there is a little bit of slowing and it pinks up at sunnyvale. let's go to steve. we have a cool shot and we are looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, even a few high clouds, speaking of cool it is chilly out there this morning. 40s and 50s on the coast, we are getting some 40s in the north bay and that's pretty brisk for me. some low clouds high clouds and the breeze has cranked up, and temperatures even in san francisco, i have seen some upper 40s and you combine that and maybe that will cut right through you. tomorrow we will keep an eye on
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that system which will bring us clouds and bring us a much cooler pattern and mostly sunny, windy at times, cooling continues inland on the way down, heading down 60s and 70s, very low 80s, so saturday morning it will be very warm and chilly. >> we are just miles away and they will cash in for buying an app at just the right time. a bay area tragedy ended the actions of a man trying to help others. look at 'em.
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. welcome back taking you to the big board, new york stock exchange, macy's stock is up about one and a quarter percent after reporting some good numbers. o.j. simpson will take the witness stand in court trying to win his freedom and get out of prison. he is due to testify in a las vegas courtroom and he is
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hoping to get his assault convictions thrown out. he has been serving time for memorabilia dealers in 2007 and simpson claims he got bad legal advice and that led to his conviction. the soccer tragedy tragically has ended. he was trying to dribble a soccer ball to brazil for next year's cup but he was hit and killed by a pickup truck while walking along highway 101 in oregon. he was promoting the berkeley based area which is known for donating soccer balls in developing companies. concession workers at at&t parkings it is the first phase to face talk as they overwhelmingly voted to have a
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strike. the company claims at&t park workers are among the highest paid in the industry. for now there are no plans for workers to walk off the job. apple is expected to tell us who downloaded apple's 50th billion app. it is amazing how many apps are being downloaded and it is promising to reward that person with a $10,000 app store gift card. the next 50 people who download an app will receive of a million and there is the countdown. my daughter was thinking she is going to get it. what is happening in the
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east bay. >> it is slow out there. westbound 580 is slow coming out of the lakeshore area and the bay bridge is lighter than usual and people are now beginning to get through. also westbound livermore is slowing as you drive into dublin. let's go to steve. thanks, sal. cool breezy pattern, today will be on the chilly side coming down and you can see low clouds and partly sunny skies, mostly sunny, windy and cooler. coming up next on mornings on 2. we have been following a big fire, we are getting late word of injuries and brian flores is on the scene. also it is affecting the morning commute, stay right here with us. '7'7!yd$$ñpjpçam!
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>> reporter: we're live in redwood city where the fire department continues to battle an apartment fire from early this morning. we'll bring you the very latest information. there's big trouble on caltrain this morning because of a fatal train accident in san bruno. we'll tell you how long the system is delayed. new video, new pictures and new information about a missing 9-year-old girl from san francisco. what her teachers want searchers to know. a story we've been
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