. good morning, a deadly attack at a south bay shopping center, what we now know about this brutal crime. we will tell you what police are doing at the crime scene and what we have learned about the person of interest. three tornadoes left a trail of destruction in north texas. tens of thousands are

expected to pack e same time and we will tell you about the extra security measures in place as the ktvu channel 2 morning news continues. this is ktvu channel 2 mornnews. good morning, thank you for joining us, it is may 16th,th, i am pam cook. >> good morning, steve, any roads getting wet? >> yes, windshield wipers, today if we do get some rain early this morning, cloudy, a little bit of rain not too much but highs are okay. >> the morning commute is okay on interstate 880, let's go back to the desk. homicide detectives are busy looking for clues after a

man was pronounced dead just hours ago. his body was spotted at a shopping center at blossom hill road and it appears he was by the end with a machete and that weapon was found at the scene. police are checking surveillance video and they are trying to find witnesses and trying to put together a description at that point and this is his -- the 6th homicide. a grandmother and her baby grandson and grand daughter were attacked. >> reporter: if you take a look, you can see the light kit that they have been shining on the home and we are not sure if they are leaving the scene soon but we will keep you posted and we are not sure if the coroner

will arrive because the bodies of the grandmother and grandson are still in that home and the granddaughter is still alive in that hospital. after a manhunt, marshals detained rubin ramirez after being located and they are not calling if him a suspect. they are calling him a person of interest. he is the uncle of the two small children and they all lived there where the killings happened as the call came in from a family member who arrived home to find the three stabbing victims. he suffers from a mental illness and had not been taking his medication, an issue which had been together. 0 so had you seen police there

before? >> i have seen them their. >> the. >> reporter: the three-year-old was transported to the hospital and we understand she has been stabilized. they will interview ramirez and we will learn whether he will be charged. they are not looking for any other suspects in this case. live in san jose, tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 morning news. a car in san mateo went up in flames and they believe it may be connected to a fire later this week. flames quickly spread and it did -- spread and it did take firefighters about 10 minutes to put out the flames. now -- flames. now we are getting a look at the damage after powerful tornados in texas.

at least 6 people were killed and a lot of homes were damaged and destroyed. brian flores found out that death toll brian, it is expected to go up even more. >> we certainly hope it does not rise but we will continue to search through at damaged area where at least three have touched down. this is roughly southwest of dallas and it touched down 5:00 p.m. local time and strong winds damaged homes and left a trail of trees and all over. 50 people and 100 people have been injured. it produced grape sized hail in that area and it had residents obviously scared. >> it was loud and my little brother was crying. tornado touched down 25 miles

southeast of grand berry and it had 30,000 residents. they described this one as possibly a mile wide. yet another tornado hit the town of millsap, 40-mile west of south worth and several people may be underneath the rubble there. we will continue to monitor this and show you the extent of the damage. security will be tighter than normal at the world famous bay to breakers and here is more on how police plan to keep people safe, claudine? >> reporter: it is about one block from where we are and when you talk about the 70,000 participants will be jam packed

sunday. preparations are underway there this morning as well. the post race party will be there and they shut down about 5:00 so they can get the road ready to go. this is the 102nd running of this race but it will not be business as usual. there are new rules in the wake of the boston bombing. backpacks will be banned and there will be more officers along the private course. >> there will be visible security and there will be security which is not visible. >> when you talk about traffic, bait pay the it start at howard and main -- bay to breakers starts at howard and main and

getting in michael arnett the city may be tough if you do not want to see or parents pay the in any of those -- if you do wanamaker to participate in those events you may want to steer clear away from that area. there is a press conference to talk about all the security and everything that is going into this event and everything will be shutting down in preparation for the race. claudine wong ktvu channel 2 morning news. well, warriors hope their cinderella lawn does not end. they get to play at home and mark says there is no pressure as they play for the nba playoffs. the sharks could lose a key player for the rest of their players against the kings and he hit the kings towards the

board and torres may get hit with a long suspension. his meeting is with league officials in new york and they are down in game 2 tonight in los angeles. >> calling all warriors, we want to see your fan photos as you cheer on your favorite team and hopefully we will show some of those on television and on facebook, just go and share the photos because we need some photos. >> get them in. we have to go to sal, just what happened in san francisco. >> well there is an accident, south on paul avenue, it started out as a stalled vehicle. two left lanes are blocked and you may want to think about using 280 instead. let's move along and pardon me that drive looks nice with no major problems and geyou are

already seeing some slowing 609 let's go back. most of those have been sprinkles and light rain out towards concord pleasant hill and san jose and at least the system is here and it will not do much but bring us light rain. the mere fact that we are getting some light rain is impressive since we have not had much. temperatures are way below average, light rain mainly in the morning. cooler air comes in after tonight and 50s and 60s and again we are stuck, there is too much of a breeze in fact we are 20 to 25 and we are out of the south and that will continue. some of that rain out towards brentwood east bay, concord, san jose as well, picking up reports of some rain and

nothing too heavy and we need to see things going. we will have light rain going to the north, a couple going towards mendocino county and out towards the sacramento valley but there is their system and it is kind of hit and miss. 60s and 70s and we will have a chilly morning and warmer sunday and monday. time now 6:11, video of police officers bursting into a sonoma county home has gone viral. the controversy now tied to that video. the president faces more tough questions as three scandals play out in washington, what the tea party has planned we will have more

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. the steam and ash is shooting 20,000 feet in the air. the alaska observatories are issuing warnings on how it could affect planes in the area and there are sudden explosions

with little or no warnings. back here fires are spreading into ventura county and it could be harder to fight. this fire right now is only 10% contained and stronger winds are expected to make even more of a problem for firefighters. right now a high school, a state park and some campsites have been evacuated and still no word on how the fire started and luckily no injuries are reported. an during a minister meeting. kyla campbell is there on explaining why the tea party is calling for an explanation for their actions. >> reporter: they are dealing with phone records without warning and they are trying to answer some questions surround the benghazi attack.

president barack obama had no problem asking the internal revenue service to step down after targeting conservative groups. and republicans are not about to let it go. tea party groups will be with lawmakers in about 20 minutes and they are expected to call on the obama administration to do more in the wake of the internal revenue service scandal. the woman who targeted the tea party is still in her same position and the fbi is investigating whether or not any laws were broken and the internal revenue service has a long reach and they are in charge of implementing the healthcare law something republicans are trying to repeal. they will detail their calls for action when i see you next. now turkey is reportedly going to ask americans to take in

large numbers of syrian refugees. there could be a million syrian refugees by the end of the year and officials say it may be too soon to talk about relocating refugees because many of them hope to return home if the conflict ends. many have been killed in a suicide bombing in kabul and afghanistan. nine afghan people have died and somebody did claim responsibility for that attack. it has gone viral on the internet and it is also sparking controversy overuse of force. >> you kicked my door down -- you kicked my door down -- >> a man living in this area

used a taser to taser a woman. they responded to reports of domestic violence disturbs bans and he refused to open the door because police refused to say why they were there. they are not making any public comments because they say it is an ongoing investigation. jodi arias was convicted of the killing of her former boyfriend in 2008. they say she should get the death penalty instead of life in prison and they decided she is eligible for the death penalty. they are trying to get more people to walk, bike and use public transportation and they are doing that by letting city

services car share reserve on streets and they could get another 150 next year. cars are available at least 75% of the time. it is not a good year for small suvs and 13 vehicles were put through crash test and only a few had a passing grade. coming under which suvs performed well and which failed. let's see what sal is saying about the commute. how are we doing? >> well, let's start off with the toll plaza and the metering lights are on and no trouble on the bridge but across the way in san francisco, southbound 110 and paul avenue, they are clearing a crash and it's causing a little bit of a slow down, it is not a huge back up but if it stays out there, we will have a huge problem.

that looks good getting up to highway 17, let's go to steve. all right, we have cloudy skies, a few reports coming in and out to the east bay, it is a system which is here, cloudy skies, windy at times look for a mostly cloudy day and we'll see bent conditions take over. 50s on the temperatures and a lot of 50s and i think they are there for most of the morning and the breeze has been very good. still out of the southwest and it's an on shore breeze so it is a cold front breeze and some other rain is reported below dana and vallejo said it is real rain falling and we will have more to talk about so you

will see something there and a couple of reports of light rain in san jose, they are picking up light rain and most reports are coming in towards the east bay and again most of it is light each rds fremont. 60s or on the temperatures and this is well below inland, california and bay to breakers... and what is that? >> tour of california tour de france... housing fell 16-point 5% in april and construction on single family homes dropped 2. 1% and groundbreaking on apartments 38% which is much worse than expected. keeping an eye on tesla's stock

this morning and that's after they announced they will raise capital by raising new shares of stock. they have already promised to buy $100 million worth of shares and they are using it to pay $465 million loan from the department of energy. how bacon lovers are fighting to keep a restaurant open. a strain of flu is found in he will haven't seals and it is not -- elephant seals and it's not unusual for that type of strain to be crossed to other species. we used to live with a bear.

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strain. the insurance institute put 13 vehicles through front impact crashes and most of those vehicles failed. only two passed and the sue brew pass -- subaru passed. five of them got poor rating, including sport taj, jeep pat -- sportage, jeep pay the beyond and ford -- patriot and ford escape. he had a very smelly dispute with his neighbors and it is bacon, bacon and the health dent is shutting -- health department is shutting it down because of the strong bacon smell. some are fighting to keep it open and already they have 1600 signatures to keep it open.

sal, how are things? >> i am thinking about bacon. we are doing okay and we are seeing some commutes late this morning for example in the collar valley the commute still looks good, so if you want to get on the road you may still beat that crowd which forms in sunnyvale -- sunnyvale and cupertino. >> it's not too heavy, sprinkles of light rain, pleasant hill, san jose, the mere fact it is here gives us some light rain and 60s on the temperatures and we will have the extended outlook including a warm weekend. deadly tornadoes ripped across texas and we will bring you live reports and the dare devil team will get a second

chance to have the blue angels fly during fleet week. this is the 16th homicide of the year and we will tell you it appears to have happened in this shopping plaza in san jose. pam, will bring you the early stock numbers. save like a maxxinista. with my new dress. designer brands at t.j. prices. t.j.maxx.

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. there it is right on time, the opening bell in new york, we are keeping an eye on tesla and it looks like it is going to trade up 9 or $10 a share and we will have all of the business news coming up. we will smile and say good morning to you thursday, may 16th,th, i am dave clark. we are continuing to follow

developing news out of san jose first brought to you 440 this morning and right now police are investigating the death of a man brutally beaten with a machete. here is more on where the man was found and it is now affecting business, janeane? >> reporter: that's right, police have been here for the past five hours and they are focused on the side to the right of jack in the box and smell. in a dumpster area, it is normally open 24 hours but it is closed for this investigation and police are working on getting any surveillance video to see if they caught any evidence on tape. they called 911 after finding a man severely beaten up in the 400 block of blossom hill. he was unconscious and laying

on the ground between pay less and jack in the box. sources say it appears he may have ban tacked with a machete and a lot of the damage is to his head. they have gathered evidence intaking pictures and one source said the machete was pulled from the scene and there are several restaurants as well as a chase banks with in that area. we asked police how long is a crime scene supposed to be here and it is unclear why such a large area here is roped off and we are still waiting for them to return our called and we know we have not been given any sort of suspect description. reporting live, janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning

news. >> police are also investigating another homicide at holiday inn. pell found her body and there were obvious signed of a struggle but they have not released any information about the circumstances of her death. they have been searching for two men accused of robbing a woman and stealing her baby. it happened at the garden town homes. one of the men pushed the woman to the ground and took her purse while the other man grabbed her baby stroller. the woman and her baby was not hurt. they are described as between 18 and 25 years old. they were wearing black hats and caps and hooded sweatshirts and pants. they spend many days

looking for an autistic girl, mikaela lynch, her body was found in the lake at clear lake. condolences were everywhere as they dropped off flowers. >> we saw her she was full of life and she was just a beautiful child. what a terrible thing. >> investigators believe her death was an accident and she wandered into the creek on mother's day. they are trying to hold a vigil to help them heel. they are also expected to hold a special tribute and one teacher said through her we will always love her and remember her. right now the tea party is

calling for further investigation into the internal revenue service and we are taking you to a live news conference taking place in washington right now and we understand thats senator mike lee from utah. michelle bachman is holding this briefing and she will speak shortly and this is featuring tea party leaders trying to te her,they targeted this and again we are watching this live and monitoring the developments in our washington d.c. newsroom and the washington bureau is examining this as well and kyla campbell will talk about it coming up on mornings on 2. there is a new fundraising campaign launched to bring the

blue angels back. they were cut along with 60 others because of budget cuts and now crowd tilt.com, organizers hope to race money so if you want to help so far $6,500,000,000 has been raised. >> well, it's now up to $475 million and in the end nobody matched all of the winning numbers. so it is the second in pow ball history and the next -- power ball history. the numbers were 2, 11, 26, 31 and the powerball is 32. >> i love the discussion what people would do with the money, it is always fun to dream.

we understand police action at bart, what is going on? >> police action where they had delay ef information over and i because mcarthur maze is one of the transfer points for all of the lines. back up, it is growing quickly coming into san francisco before you get passed the metering lights and also 880 southbound looks good driving passed the coliseum and no major problems there and traffic has been busy, no major problems and a lot of problems coming in let's go to steve. we had some light rain nothing too heavy but s p weather by

the way, if you want to tweet some weather, we have a few stops coming in and most reports say fespriles have some light rain put you can see the low and they picked up almost about a quarter of an inch so a little bit and it is a breezy windy day, no doubt, it is here and temperatures continue to drop and cloudy to mostly cloudy skies, light rain, some breaks, 50s on the temperatures and boy it was really the howling turbo charge and we have 40 plus miles per hour and it will be a breezy day and also vallejo has been reporting light rain, pleasant

hill even back over to fremont and most of these are very light and that's not too much out to discovery bay. the cooling trends continues and we will have some afternoon sun and temperatures are on the cool side, 60s and very low 70s and we will have it cool and breezy and things turn around saturday and sunday we will have sunny and warmer weather. happening now in north tempe texas, deadly torns in that area, killed 6 people injured hundreds more and destroyed a lot of homes. victor blackwell is in grand berry, victor, how bad was it? >> well it was terrible but

there is some good news and the number of people in the local hospital is down to 3 from 14 unaccounted for down to six or seven but here is the bad news, the sheriff believes the death toll at ow. co they are assessing the damage after a powerful system caused widespread destruction and casualties. this video was shot by a storm chaser. [ sirens ] >> reporter: pray to god. that is what this man did when the storm hit. he rode out the storm with his family in his bathtub. >> you can see the whole roof collapsed and the twitter was there facing you, it was horrible. >> reporter: it hop scotched through the area touch you had

down through north texas and reports of injuries and fatalities came in. >> people were found in homes, they were destroyed. reporter: those who could made their way out of their homes while crews work to search for victims inside flattened buildings. >> it is just right there, trees are gone, houses completely demolished. >> reporter: they sent school buses to help with evacuations as residents cope with losing everything in an instant. >> there is nothing left. there is nothing left. >> let me show you what is happening here and now. right over here, there is a roadblock from sheriff's deputies and unoutlily, people will try to see it for

themselves and if you are not involved with the cleanup, back here are the cherry pickers and the crews are getting power back to the homes which are standing and when it comes to the worst of the damage it was an in an area of 1 more than that. if somebody receivers the keys imagine those facial expresses this morning. >> okay, victor, thank you for the update from grandville texas. 6:42, trapped on a moving bus. the amazing video of a deer's wild ride in traffic. after a manhunt, police question a man about a triple stabbing, we will tell you more details about the sole

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. we have breaking news in oakland, all trains are stopped at the bart station and they are doing a traffic break here,

you can see police lights, there is a person who police described as mentally disturbed who is jumping off the roofs of trains and i'm not sure how it happened but we got a tweet about it from one of our viewers and the viewer told us there was a person reported on the track way, so it is unclear what is happening and the trees are stopped but it is the main transfer point for the entire system, we will let you know more about this straight ahead. here is a look at the other top stories, president barack obama is expected to talk about several recent controversy hamburger he will be expected

to take questions about the attacks in benghazi libya and the internal revenue service also targeted certain conservative groups. u.s. will take a bigger role for the crisis in syria. back home in san mateo, a car went up in flames right near a trash fire. there were three similar fires in the city this week object investigators want to know if they are connected. earlier this morning, it appears he was beaten with a machete. police are trying to get surveillance video from nearby businesses and this by the i was the city's 61 the violence south bay home and there is information on the man take

mean custody, tara? >> reporter: we are looking to see where they stand in their investigation but we have no updates but a bunch people came out behind me and got into the bick white mobile command center and we are not sure if they wrapped up their investigation but the bodies are still inside the house and the green daughter is still -- granddaughter is still alive in the hospital. san francisco police and u.s. marshals detained the grandmother's son and he was located and they are loving to him as a person -- they are refurring to him as a person of interest. a call came in from a family member who arrived home to find the three stabbing victims, a 48-year-old woman and her

grandson. he had been suffering from mental illness and had not been taking his medication, an issue which was troubling family members. >> now the three-year-old girl was transported and whoop understand whether or not he will be charged and authorities are not looking at any other suspects. back out here live they just took down the crime scene tape and they just pulled away the mobile unit as you can see and inside the home it is most likely wrapped up and they are waiting for the corner to arrive ktvu channel 2 morning news. a bus driver in pennsylvania got a very unexpected passenger when a deer crashed through the

windshield. the deer frantically tried to get away jumping around on empty seats, tried to get back out and there was one passenger but that passenger was not hurt. you can imagine they stopped the bus pulled over and scampered to free some. and yeah, i am getting tweets and it says our viewers are tweeting us and my fremont train is stopped at the north berkeley station and you can see trains are stopped here at the mcarthur maze station and this is due to reports of a man jumping on tops of the trains and at one point jumping on tracks. all trains are stopped and they

are stopping traffic on eastbound 580 to eastbound 24 right there as what they are calling the mini maze and they are bringing traffic breaks now this is reported because trains are stacking up and this may be one of the reasons why they are finding the bay bridge toll plaza which is backed up for already 25 top to 30 minutes getting into the city. and it is pretty heavy on the pass and it does get busier as you reach livermore and between hayward and union city it's not too bad so you may want to take advantage of that to get ahead of the crowd. the system finally made it

here and we talked about below average temperatures and there is a lot of 60s and 70s and a couple of reports of light written, and already out toad towards livermore, antioch, brentwood, san francisco and you can always tweet me, that is the best way to get information. the mere fact that is rain is here is great and we have not had much in awhile and this is mainly a morning event and it could pick up, we need a little enhancement right off the coast than will enhance the rain rates and we will have some breaks this afternoon, a cool blustery pattern and yesterday they continue to tomorrow, 50s on the temperatures everyb is really close, there will not

shall a lot. there is a lot that has to stream in and we have 60s and very low 70s and these are well below average away from the coast. a cool breezy pattern and saturday will be okay but it will be chilly and warmer on sunday for all outdoor events. >> sounds good because there are a few. 6:53, the cost of muni will get expensive but only for some people. the increase for clipper card holders. good morning, service on bart has been stopped for police activity and this train for example we are looking at has not moved in the last 15 to

20 minutes has not moved, straight ahead.

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well as well. starting in july, the price for adult muni passes go up by $2. senior and youth passes go up by $1. these increases were scheduled years ago and they are all based on inflation rates. sal is covering a big deal, a lot of tweets are coming in, how does it look, sal? >> i didn't hear , no phone right now. bart has told us a train has stopped because a person was not only running on the tracks and jumping on to rooftops of trains but police have also stopped some of the freeway traffic, stay with us, we will have more on this developing situation and big delays on board. injury accident blocks the fast lane, let's go to steve.

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we're live in san jose where a man was found dead after being brutal leah tacked. we'll tell you what police recovered at the scene. >> there's nothing left. our neighborhood is gone . it's just gone. >> a horrifying scene of death and destruction. tornadoes ripped across texas. >> our service is stopped because of police activity that's also affecting the freeway. a live report is coming up. >> preparations are underway for this weekend's race in san francisco. the extra security you can expect and the other big event happening in the city at the same time. mornings on