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region. john york sees it as a possible boom for other franchises. including the raiders. >> this super bowl can show the state of california and other communities that that will be a catalyst that stadiums can be build for oakland and san diego. >> reporter: it was john's son jed who may have compressed best what the 49ers achieved today. >> i want a super bowl. now they need to win a super bowl. >> reporter: thatnd jed york in a kidding waylaying down the gauntlet. the 49ers didn't win super bowl xlvii. they and the play area landed super bowl l. >> thank you, joe. from boston to santa clara. robert handa is at the stadium where that game is going to be played. >> reporter: the announcement may have said san francisco.
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to people here it registered as san a a clara. the game is being played at their stadium. just watching it get bigger every day they have no doubt it will be ready for super bowl l. they waited nervously with volunteered to hear the words. >> super bowl l in 2016 has been awarded to san francisco. [ cheering ] >> reporter: doing a check to make sure -- >> doing a check to make sure i heard it correctly. i was very excited. i'm glad they handed out these towels. i'm sweating it up here. >> i was so nervous that i was shaking. when i heard it i am so happy. >> reporter: volunteers want
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people to know kevin more got the 49er connection started. >> this is the man that started it all. he sent the letter to the nfl. and because of him. a great thing to have all these people. actually have a super bowl in santa clara, california. >> reporter: emotional day here in santa clara. it will be time to get down to the business of getting ready for a super bowl. coming up at 6, more on preparations and problems. live in santa clara, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. the bay area is no stranger to the super bowl. the 49ers and raiders have played in 11 super bowls between them. the 49ers are the only nfl team to play in a super bowl in which it was the host city.
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84,000 fans were at stanford stadium for super bowl 19. 49ers behind the passing of joe montana beat the miami dolphins. final score 38-16. our coverage of the bay area scoring its first super bowl since 1985 continues. at 6 we're going to crunch the numbers. hosting the big game is a big investment. but will the bay area cash in? breaking news from the east foot hills of san jose. our news chopper 2 is live over the scene of a fire that started just within the past hour. we learned that some downed wires caught several trees and a tree house on fire late this afternoon. we're told this fire we're showing you live involves a house, a shed and some trees.
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this is in the 3600 block of warrener drive. we understand from dispatchers that structures are threatened. firefighters have called for a second alarm. fire crews on the roof of one of the buildings putting some water on some of the hot spots here. that's right in the center top of your screen. smoke pouring from the home toward the top right hand corner. fire crews around the structure. we believe this started because of some downed power lines. we'll bring you more information on ktvu channel 2 news at 5. there is disaster in oklahoma tonight as 24 people including 9 children are dead in the wake of that massive tornado that leveled countless homes and buildings to bare earth. ken pritchett live in our news room. that tornado was even more powerful than first thought. >> reporter: the national weather service upgraded the strength of that tornado from an ef4 to an ef5, the highest
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ranking on the scale. winds exceeding 200 miles per hour. a short time ago the first victim was identified as ja'nae hornsby. >> keep these people safe. >> reporter: what this storm chaser first suspected and what we now know is that hundreds of people were injured and dozens dead after the two-mile wide tornado left a 17-mile path of destruction through moore, oklahoma. population 41,000. the city's hospital was destroyed. 7 children were killed at plaza towers elementary which took a direct hit. >> it's a tremendous debris field. it is massive. it was surreal just to walk upon that last night. there were hundreds of people. they had sledgehammers. they were desperately trying to get under the debris. >> reporter: at nearby briarwood elementary an
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emotional reunion of mother and child. elsewhere massive devastation to neighborhoods. families that survived in storm shelters as this video shows, emerged to see their neighborhoods gone. >> all houses around me are >> reporter: al boggs shared one of many stories of survival. he says he found shelter just in time. >> i went and got in the bathtub center of my house. all of a sudden it hit like a roaring train. it felt like it lifted the house up and set it back down. >> reporter: the national guard searched boggs' neighborhood. search dogs and teams went from one scene to another. moore's fire chief says by midday most of the collapsed structures in the tornado's path had been searched for survivors. >> we will be through every damaged piece of property in this city at least three times before we're done.
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we hope to be done by dark tonight. >> reporter: the moore fire chief said he is 98% sure that there are no more survivors or bodies in the debris, but the search effort does go on. in the news room, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. today governor jerry brown ordered six specially trained emergency responders from california to go to oklahoma. the team comes from five urban search and rescue task forces including one from oakland. others are from sacramento, los angeles and orange county. california specialists will help with recovery efforts in the wake of the tornado. the oakland task force member is a cap stop sign. he left early this morning. emergency responders in the bay area have offered their help to the victims of the oklahoma tornado. the salvation army is providing food, housing and other support services. bay area alleviation army and red cross units are on stand by
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tonight. on our facebook wall viewers are sending their prayers to families affected. you can join the conversation and share e to show your support. the highway patrol is investigating a deadly crash that happened today in the north bay. it happened around 12:15 on eastbound highway 116. that's southwest of the sonoma city limits. this is what's left of the ford pickup truck involved in the crash. the chp says the truck went off the roadway and slammed into a larger tree. the driver was the only person in the truck at the time. he was ejected from the truck and declared dead at the scene. there were no other vehicles involved in that crash. friends and family of a young man who disappeared after running in the bay to breakers spent the day searching for him in san francisco. 27-year-old beau rasmussen ran the race on sunday then told friends he wanted to go to ocean beach. his id, credit cards and phone later turned up near the beach
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restaurant. rasmussen has not been seen or heard from since noon on sunday. friends and family who combed -9d beach say it's just not like bow to disappear. >> we're hopeful. we're hoping and praying he'll come back to us. we're worried. we just want him back. and his brothers need him back. >> obviously the family is getting more concerned with each passing hour. if you have any information on beau rasmussen, you're asked to call police in san francisco. thes? antiwar.com is taking the fbi to court. the aclu filed a freedom of the press lawsuit. thes? is suing for surveillance records that were requested more than a year ago. thes? founder and managing editors say they became aware the fbi was monitoring them in 2011. the memos indicate the surveillance began in 2004. a san pablo woman could be facing charges in an accident
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that killed a 5-year-old girl. there were five family members inside. the little girl was thrown from the suv. police say she was not in a car seat and only the driver was buckled in. they say speed may have been a factor. the investigation is on going. a campaign against the gap is intensifying. one faithful shopper is being asked to stay out of the stores. what the global brand is doing to fight back. significantly cooler today. temperatures 10 to 20 degrees cooler than yesterday. specifics on your forecast. see you in 10 minutes. medications?
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pay a few cents more for each item of clothing it has made or else risk losing its reputation, its customers, not to mention its workers. add have caste group took on one of the world's largest brands. >> there are over a thousand the walmarts and gap of the world can sell stuff cheaper for us to wear. >> reporter: the goal, to convince retailers to agree to independent safety inspections and pay for safety upgrades. an incident not linked to the gap brand. advocates tell us the gap is not blameless. it says the company needs to live up to its image as socially responsible. >> yes, we are shape shaming
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gap for not signing on to this agreement. >> reporter: gap denies it is doing nothing. its vp of global corporate affairs released this statement. last october gap implemented a four-point plan that includes up to $22 million in assistance to workers and to improve fire safety at the selected factories that produce our products. protesters say self-policing won't work. keeping the heat on the company might. it's already impacting shopper decisions. >> there's a list of an app you can get so when you shop you can figure out who is on the list you should boycott. >> reporter: jessica is holding off on gap purchases until she knows she's supporting a company that puts its money where its mouth is. over the past month 1 million people signed petalumaations calling on gap and other companies to adopt meaningful safety stands where at least 1800 garment workers have died
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since 2006. reporting live in oakland, patti lee, ktvu channel 2 news. thousands of workers at uc medical centers all over california all walked off their jobs today. this is part of a two-day strike affecting 5 uc hospitals. workers are angry about contracting out workers, pension contributions and low staffing levels. >> priorities are starting to look like a for-profit wall street where the executives are more important than the patients. >> being able to talk about that is one thing. walking out on patients is another. >> reporter: a judge issued -- >> a judge issued an injunction requiring 450 workers to staff certain units. uc says it was forced to cancel 150 surgeries over the course of the strike. a man who jumped off the golden gate bridge survived
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thanks in part to another man who happened to be sailing nearby. scott uleka says he and his daughter were in his sailboat near the bridge yesterday and they saw the man jump. they rushed to get him. he said it appeared that both of the man's legs were broken but the man was alert and said he wanted totold authorities he 31 years old, homeless and from alabama. more than 1500 people have jumped off the golden gate bridge since it opened. it's a 220-foot drop. very few have survived. >> reporter: investigators figured out how a fire started yesterday. one that came dangerously close to homes. started on the property right off tim road. the fire burned through 20 acres and destroyed a barn and two travel trailers on neighboring property. back to the massive tornado that slammed into moore,
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oklahoma. reporter nicole collins is in moore tonight. the damage just seems to go on and on. what is it like being there and seeing all of this firsthand? >> reporter: it is unbelievable to see this level of devastation. so widespread. just so incredibly shocking here. cleanup crews are doing an amazing job trying to do what they can. clean up what they can. get the power restored where they can. even this fence behind me went up in about 5 minutes. that used to be a bowling alley. they're trying to keep people out of that area, out of the intense debris areas to avoid stuff like this. you see a lot of this on the ground here, just wood pieces with nails sticking out of it. they don't want people walking around inspect debris. you can easily get a nail through your foot if you're not careful. >> some of the stories we're hearing from people who survive ready just remarkable. i'm sure you've been talking to
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people out there. what stands out to you about what they're telling you? >> reporter: well, i've talked to a lot of people who are just trying to clean up. or i've tried to talk to people. i think the shock really stands out to me. i saw a man and his family, a husband, wife, three kids and golden retriever walking out of the neighborhood area where you're not allowed to drive. carrying duffel bags. also trash bags. it's just so sad to see someone's life reduced to what can be contained in a trash bag. i tried to stop and talk to that gentleman and i said are you coming from your home right now? he just said yeah, and kept walking and had this utter look of shock on his face. i had a chance to talk to the state's governor today. she said we're in utter shock here that this happened. so just a lot of people in this community coming together and trying to help one another. giving away free generators. whatever they can to help their
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neighbors. >> nicole, really is remarkable when you think about an ef5 tornado and how it can pick up a car and throw it like a missile. sometimes in pictures that we see the damage looks really bad, but then when you see it in person it's even worse. is that the case here? >> reporter: yeah, it is, actually. i can show you -- phil my photographer to zoom behind me. we can see some of the cars. it looks like a dump. it looks like a pile that was intended for the garbage. these cars are just whipped around, smashed like tin cans. i think that was stunning to me to see what's happened to these cars. they're just demolished and squished together, smashed down. just hard to believe that something like that could have so much power and do that. i think it's hard to belief at this point that only 24 people died in all this when you consider the debris field is 20 miles long and 2 miles wide.
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>> nicole collins live in moore, oklahoma. we certainly wish everyone there the best. a long road ahead for those folks. >> more about this story this morning i heard the debris was picked up and then dropped 100 miles away from moore. >> oh yeah, i'm sure there's going to be a lot of reports like that. this is a major, major, ef5 tornado. big as they get. a base of over a mile and a half wide. they still have tornado watches in parts of the area just east homa. you can see the red boxes indicating that. moore's powerful storms moving through dallas. nothing like yesterday. yesterday was all time in terms of tornadoes. big deal. there were a lot of them. more than 10 or 12 tornadoes over the last 24 hours. that big one was massive. here's what we have. cooled off today. see the cool air? winds picked up today. we talked about this last night. the air mass went from a very
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warm, almost hot condition, to very, very cool now. temperatures today 10 to 20. big dropoff. big cooldown today. 30 mile-an-hour winds in fairfield. moist, cool air inland. nearly 30 at half moon bay. windy on the avenues at ocean beach. it's been a windy spring. windy along the coast as well. look at the cool temperatures. low temperatures. greens, those are your 50s and 60s. yellows are 70s. ewe see the greens. lots of cool, moist air. not talking about a lot of fires today. today much cooler, moister air. all brought to you by the shallow marine layer that was there yesterday. wasn't shallow today. it went all this moist marine air got lifted up.
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that happened last night. winds just transporting it inland. the weather environment has changed a lot. fire danger always a concern. it's not at the top of our list. air quality is better. tempurdown 10 to 20 degrees cooler today than yesterday. tomorrow morning, clear, breezy. tonight, overnight lows are going to be chilly. upper 40s. 46 in napa. look for patchy fog to return to the coast tonight and tomorrow morning. when i come back, the cool weather that we're experiencing now, it's going to linger. i'll let you know that. we go looking at the five-day forecast. we'll see you back at 5:45. on the hot seat, apple's ceo facing tough questions on capitol hill over the tax breaks apple is getting. how tim cook is defending his company. we'll tell you about some crime fighting tactics being
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used on the peninsula after one small city there has seen a dramatic increase in violent crime.
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it was a first for tim cook. instead of an audience of investors, he spoke to a senate sub committee. >> we do have a low tax rate outside the united states. but this tax rate is for product wes sell outside the
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united states. not within. and so the way that i look at this is there's no shifting going on that i see at all. >> panel ers accused apple of tax gimmicks by maintaining a large part of its foreign revenue. cook said apple is still the nation's largest corporate taxpayer. and stressed apple paid $6 billion in u.s. taxes last year. >> we pay all the taxes we owe. every single dollar. we not only comply with the laws, but we comply with the spirit of the laws. we don't depend on tax gimmicks. >> apple has about two-thirds of its cash outside the u.s. if that money was brought into the u.s. apple would owe about 35% in taxes. lawmakers admit that apple isn't breaking any laws. they say the high-tech company offers a good example of
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loopholes and why the u.s. tax code needs an upgrade. >> the irs also faced tough questions by the senate finance committee about the scandal over the targeting of certain tax exempt groups. on the hot seat was former irs commissioner who first learned that agents were improperly targeting conservative groups in the spring of last year. that was during president obama's reelection campaign. he said today he only had partial knowledge of what was going on and decided to let the inspector general look into it. >> i'm not personally responsible for creating a list that had inappropriate criteria on it. i very much regret it happened on my watch. >> i don't think that qualifies as an apology. >> current irs chief stephen miller who resigned last week and will be replaced tomorrow apologized on replace of the
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irs. the irs official plans to avoid the witness stand at a house hearing tomorrow by invoking her fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. super bowl l is headed here. the surprise reaction in san francisco and the preparations for the game. i'm inside a wind tunnel to show you how strong a it tornado can be. ñw?
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super bowl l in 2016 has been awarded to san francisco. >> that was the reaction from
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inside santa clara city hall. the bay area will be home to super bowl l. the bay area hasn't hosted a super bowl since 1985. the entire region is abuzz with plans to make l one the world will never forget. david stevenson with the low tech way the play your got the news today. >> reporter: news of the win brought big cheers here to san francisco city hall. now the hard work begins. ed lee got the word during an event honoring the golden state warriors. an aide brought him a note saying that san francisco bay area won the rights to host super bowl l. lee read the note. >> i had to read it three times. wait a minute, when they say l 50, is that super bowl 50? did i read that right? >> just want to let y'all know, san francisco has been named the host of super bowl l. >> reporter: lee says the clinching factors the plan to use 25% of the millions raised
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to host the game to support bay area charities. the bay area bid also included ipad minis for all 32 nfl owners. detrailing attractions. >> it's going to be napa, sonoma, it's the entire bay area is going to benefit from this. so the benefits are hard to calculate. they'll be big. >> that's so awesome. it's great news. >> reporter: san francisco up a 22,000 hotel rooms set aside for the game and host an nfl theme park. organizers must coordinate plans and programs. along with transportation for tens of thousands. >> we'll make sure everybody gets on public transportation to get to the game. it is the most bike friendly and pedestrian friendly super bowl in the history of super bowls. >> reporter: organizers at city hall weren't floating an exact figure for how much revenue it may generate. one 2010 study found the game
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can bring in as much as a half billion dollars for a host city. david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. at 6:00 p.m. the super bowl will cost millions to host, but what kind of return will the bay area see? our consumer editor tom vacar breaks down all the numbers. disaster in oklahoma. the pictures of devastation are almost incomprehensible. home after home destroyed as a result of that massive and deadly tornado that made a direct hit on the small town of moore. if there is any good news it's that the death toll was lowered today to 24. 9 of the victims were children. also today the national weather service upgraded the power of the tornado from an ef4 to an ef5 which is the strongest category. ef5 tornadoes are capable of actually lifting reinforced buildings off the ground, hurling cars through the air, and stripping the bark completely off of trees. our health and science
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editor john fowler tracked down a bay area storm chaser who is in the heart of tornado alley right now. john also went inside a wind tunnel to get a sense of how strong that tornado was. >> reporter: special a's bicycles this afternoon i stood in their new wind tunnel. wind force increases as speed increases, squared. >> this is about 55 mile-an- hour -- >> reporter: this is about 55 miles an hour. the wind in oklahoma was 200 miles an hour. when the tornado ripped through moore, oklahoma, its energy estimated greater than atomic bombs. a bay area chaser team was nearby. >> it's sort of how we felt after the earthquake in the san francisco bay area. >> reporter: teams to texas, kansas and oklahoma tracking
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twisters each year mid may. we spoke last year. >> getting myself in a position to photograph them. >> reporter: a jet stream above, tropical gulf air below, the area's known as tornado alley for good reason. >> since 1999 three tornadoes took essentially the same track. >> reporter: moore, oklahoma rebuilt twice before, destroyed again yesterday. but why this town remains a mystery. >> there's nothing special about the meteorologist of the area nor the topography. >> reporter: he respects tornado wind and stays well clear. in morgan hill, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. it is not taking long at all to see the effects of a crime energy just called for east palo alto. the murder of a 15-year-old boy over the weekend prompted the emergency. paul chambers live.
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your police ride along took a very dramatic turn. >> reporter: we're live outside east palo alto substation. officers just yapped up a press conference a few moments ago. crime emergency seems to be working. woe were there when officers took in a known suspect. >> spread your arms. spread your arms. >> reporter: this is east palo alto low alto officer clay warford. >> i have been looking for him when i've had time. i know other officers have too. what he was wanted for was a pretty big warrant. >> reporter: officer warford spotted the suspect while we were on a ride along with him. he did say the suspect had a warrant out for his arrest from louisiana. he's also led east palo alto officers on a foot chase and was caught with pills in the past. today's capture comes as the
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police department begins its crack down in east palo alto. a city that's had a recent surge in crime. >> 8 shootings, 1 murder. >> reporter: police say the murder was a deciding factor for the chief to put the city under crime emergency. officers will not have any days off for the next 30 days. you'll see more officers on the streets. a major effort police hope will suppress crime. >> it's a lot of crime happening. we can use more officers on the street. so it would make me happy to see more officers. >> the more units on the street the better for us. we're able to focus on being proactive and finding people we're looking for and stopping crime. >> reporter: the additional officers will be able to back up officers like they did today. several cities including east palo alto are working together on a gang task force. that meeting just wrapped up about a half hour ago.
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crime emergency could be extended if needed. live in east palo alto, paul hammers, ktvu channel 2 news. making her case why jodi arias showed the jury a slideshow today. the show and tell to save her life. five hours of debate led to no decision. why netflix's big plans are now on hold. you kids should count yourselves lucky.
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convicted killer jodi arias made her final plea to the jury today in an effort to save her own life. everybody though in a tv interview after her conviction he said she would rather be excuted than spend her life in prison. now she's saying she can make a positive contribution if she is given life without parole. >> if i got life there are many things i can do to effect positive change. and contribute in a meaningful way. in prison there are programs i can start and people i can help. >> during her address arias also showed the jury a slideshow of her life, including siblings and old boyfriends. she apologized for lying about the murder and said she was sorry for killing her former boyfriend. an oakland man convicted in the multimillion dollar charity scheme has been sentenced to 121 months in prison.
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the judge ordered keith aaron van to pay restitution. this after a jury found him guilty of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering. vann used money to pay for personal trips, jewelry, a $1.25 million home. it'll be at least another couple of weeks before we hear a decision on a prose posed new campus for netflix. almost five hours of lively debate into the early hours this morning. the decision was delayed until june 3rd. netflix wants to build office space on 21 acres of business parkland. opponents called for netflix to build smaller buildings. supporters said they like the benefits of keeping netflix in town. the markets closed in positive territory. the dow closed up 52. nasdaq up more than 5 opinion s&p 500 closed up almost 3. one person's music may be
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another person's noise. why san francisco street musicians are into turn down the volume. back in 10 minutes. a big cooldown. it's going to remain on the mild side. how much cooler will it be in your neighborhood tomorrow? when will the winds die down? we'll look at the holiday weekend back in 10.
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they're either part of the city's charm or just a noisy nuisance. street performers will soon be subject to new rules approved
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today. rob roth with what will happen if some musicians don't quiet down. >> reporter: we have a bag piper playing behind me. most of the complaints come from union square businesses and hotels want board of supervisors approved an ordinance demanding that street musicians turn down the volume. meet larry the bucket man. for two decades he's been banging away on san francisco's sidewalks. but complaints have been rolling in that some street musicians play too loud and too late at night. this man works inside an office building. >> we have to have the windows open for heat sometimes so that noise can travel. >> there are guys that come out all hours of the night playing drums really loud. to the point where hotels are having to refund people their
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money. >> reporter: supervisor scott weiner is the author of the ordinance. $100 for first time offend w ai loud music after 10:00 p.m. especially drummers and those using amplified sound. we found one musician who says the louder players drown him out. >> people i guess they want to listen to me too. >> reporter: this musician says the city shouldn't drum out street performers. >> the city is loud though. it's hard with the trolley cars and sirens and people yelling. kind of have to play over everyone. >> reporter: bucket man says he won't stop playing no matter what. >> i can see if i was a criminal. i'm not a criminal. i'm 55 years old. let me do what i do best. >> reporter: loud music is their number one complaint. the new law is expected to take
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hold in july. reporting live in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. police are searching for two people after a pizza parlor was robbed got gunpoint over the weekend. police say the suspect had a gun, demanded money and then ran off. he is described as a white man in his 20s or early 30s about 5'10", 170 pounds. police also released this sketch of a second man who they are calling a person of interest who may have been at the restaurant that night. he is also white. about 30 years old. 5'10". microsoft unveiled its next generation xbox video game system. the multimat entertainment system. it's an all in one console that let's people watch television, play movies and play void owe games. they also announced a new xbox
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venture with the national football league. north bay winery is about to learn the results of a unique experiment. aging a case of the sea. they recovered four cases of 2009 from charleston harbor in cake. they had submerged the cases three months ago. they told us the bottles and corks are intact. he plans to taste the wine tomorrow. >> that'll be interesting. let's talk about our weather now. nice day out there. >> i wonder if they're trying to increase the pressure on the line. what the impact would be. >> very interesting to find out. >> the temperature, a little cooler down there. for us it was a nice day. temperatures cooled off. 10 to 20 degrees. low pressure center not supposed to be here this time of year. they're starting to move north. this is an actual low pressure
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center. these clouds, just importing very cool, moist air into the area. fire danger has fallen way off from where we were yesterday. look at the wind gusts now. over in fairfield we have 30 mile-an-hour winds. moving out of the west. 30 miles in fairfield. 24 in oakland. breezy out there. all the winds coming off the water. it's cool out at the ballpark tonight. 55 degrees for the first pitch. it'll be mostly clear. patchy fog. you get the picture. kind of cool. that's 7:00. temperature, 55. wind chill. forecast tonight, patchy fog at the coast. that's back. winds keep going. real windy out there. tomorrow and the next couple days we stay in this mild, cool, low fire danger, which is good. forecast highs tomorrow.
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yellows are 70s. not very many of them. this shows you mostly green. mostly 60s. most of the bay area. not 90s like we saw yesterday. big cooldown today. low pressure is the culprit. that cooler air moving in is going to keep temperatures below in some cases average, right into the first part of the bay area weekend. forecast highs tomorrow. 74 in antioch. it's nice. good air quality with a 72 in morgan hill. winds just cleans out the air. if you start looking north and east you'll see stuff. 65 in san mateo. 67 in redwood city. five-day forecast with your weekend in view, plenty of mild weather. temperatures start to warm up as we get into the monday
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the city of san jose is going to collect more in taxes from local marijuana collectives starting in july. the city council approved the
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change that increases the tax to 10%. currently pot clubs pay 7% and that generates an estimated $3.9 million for the city. at 10% the city will get an additional $1.5 million more. a santa cruz mother who lost her two daughters in a car crash called congress to force recalled rental cars off the road. >> cannot let my daughter's lives mean nothing and have them lost in vain. i have to do something to redeem the loss. >> reporter: cally houck's two daughters were killed in 2004. the rental car they were driving had a safety defect. new legislation sponsored by barbara boxer would ban companies from renting vehicles subject to a safety recall until they're fixed. all the major pen companies support the bill but auto makers and dealers testified
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the bill could make them open to lawsuits. >> testimony today was selfish. he never mentioned one thing about how we have to protect the people. instead he's worried he's going to get sued. >> the bill's coauthors and the auto industries say they believe they can find a compromise. the longest lasting lightbulb in the world went dark for a couple of hours tonight. the light is beaming again right now. the bulb lost power for six hours because of a power supply interruption. that was powered by a battery backup. it is listed in the guinness book of world records as having burned continuously for 111 years. the super bowl deal is done. new at 6 we break down the winners and losers when the super bowl comes to town. >> we'll get through it. disaster in oklahoma. we go live to the town of moore
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where residents who are still in shock are trying to pick up the pieces. medications?
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touchdown bay area. super bowl l is headed our way. the critical vote came just before noon today in boston. joe fonzi was there as the nfl owners made their choice. joe begins our coverage tonight. >> reporter: there was plenty of competition for the two super bowls awarded today. three metropol eas were bidding for l and li. there was one overriding reason why the bay area received super bowl l. make no mistake about it, the fact that the 49ers are build ago new stadium is the major reason why they'll be hosting super bowl l. >> there were people that looked at the quality of the stadium. they spent a great deal of time talking about that. they talked about it being an important part of our country. so much innovation is coming out with technology.
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so many great young companies and companies that are changing the world that want to be a part of the game. >> reporter: a completely solar powered stadium with the latest in innovations was part of the equation. there was more. >> this will be the most philanthropic super bowl ever. 25% of the money we raise will go back into the community. >> we have $7.5 million raised. it'll be the largest legacy lefts behind. >> reporter: the bay area is full of special interests and highly competitive businesses. the 49ers and the bid committee are confident the whole region will benefit. >> usually you don't see these companies coming together for something like this. that's the key. getting everybody in the same vein to move forward. that's really when i saw when everybody was marching in the same lin

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