. i have a great vantage point and i will bring you pictures from overnight. things in the county really lit up, will they continue or will it only be in the morning? and a house fire in san francisco leads to the discovery of a marijuana grow operation, how much marijuana was discovered here and we will tell you as the morning news continues. this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. >> it is monday june 10th, i am

pam cook. >> nothing boring about our weather. >> well, in the last 72 hours, it was incredible and you may not see a pattern like this and we go from blazing heat to really cool and the lightning show is impressive especially to the north, sonoma and parts of the east bay, it is starting to pick up along the peninsular as well and cloudy storms, winds breezy and cooler, here is sal. okay, excuse me. i did not know a thing, katie, thank you. >> you have lightning near menlo park, thank you. >> we do and it has been quite the show and we know it has been hot and dry and i will step out of the way and show you, that dark band of clouds is where we have seen the lightning strikes, we have seen some horizontal and we have seen cloud-to-ground lightning

and from here it has been popping off for the last hour or so. let me show you some of the impressive lightning mother nature has been presenting us. this video was taken an hour ago and it cover is the mt. diablo range and the real focus is in thair with this dry lightning and the danger coming when we have that cloud-to- ground lightning. it means the dry brush and grass can easily spark be a they are making firefighters very nervous. here is an impressive shot taken by matthew henderson who captured the strike north of vacaville, again another beautiful photo of a dark ominous shot an many of you have taken to facebook to share your firsthand reports of the storm and many have been seen in the east bay, snap a and

solano counties. we are tracking the lightning in the sky and tracking the fire danger as well. if you can snap a photo, please send it to us and of course you can always reach out to us on the facebook paint, live in menlo park, ktvu channel 2 morning news. katie just mentioned fire danger is also high because of the lightning strikes and again lightning is being blamed for a fire in vacaville and it burned for three hours on pleasant valley road before it was put out. a house fire led to an unexpected discovery. ktvu's alex savage is there to tell us what happened. >> reporter: a neighbor saw smoke early this morning and

somebody called 911 and firefighters got here and knocked out a small fire and found a good sized marijuana grow operation inside this place. they found the area loaded with marijuana plants and it is all worth several $100,000. this grow was discovered at the 500 block of 35th avenue and after going inside they found a dangerous electrical set up even an addition to the back of the house and all of that created challenging conditions for fire crews. >> there is a lot of electrical wiring and obstacles, a lot of ventilation and an and rat russ -- an apparatus is put into the building and it makes it difficult.

>> reporter: they are looking to see how the fire started by the electrical wiring and police are looking at who is living at this home although nobody was here when the fire started and the task be trying to track down the fire. live in san francisco ktvu channel 2 morning news. at. >> a teen was driving a car that hit and killed two people. the driver hit a husband and wife and the coroner has now confirmed that 58-year-old dianne was hit and died at the scene. >> they happened upon the scene and attempted life saving efforts as well before emts got

there. >> they waited for police to arrive and no charges have been filed as of now. also in oakland, it happened near main street at 1:00 in the afternoon. the like list had been riding in the bike line and appeared to the truck's path. they will soon have new high tech crime fighting rules in san pablo and now the police, the planning that saw some high tech cameras in high crime areas. they will even be able to identify people inside of a car. headquarters is due to reopen to the public today. it was closed last tuesday after a toilet on the 3rd floor broke and flooded the building.

the done a are cleanup is estimated to 250,000 dollars. and before voting on the next city budget they are calling for 6-point million dollars to restore pay. 3million more for anti-gaping effort and he also wants to create a team to address homeless encampmentpments. the monday morning commute is starting out, what is starting on the span? it was stalled because of a stalled vehicle and traffic is backed up all the way to the mcarthur maze and we have a 25 minute delay and no problems on the incline but you can see traffic is recovering after that stall which was on the other side of treasure island which is gone now. coming into the livermore area,

the slowest traffic is coming from the pass and by the time you get to livermore it should be better to castro valley. southbound 808 traffic -- 880 traffic looks good and san jose looks good, let's go to steve. way down on southern california, they allowed the temperatures to sore and they are making the move and yesterday was the cool down and they had the thunderstorm activity and last night and this morning it has been for parts of the bay area and they are at the surface. i have seen gusts at about 35 and the low will move in not until tonight or tomorrow. and until this does, it is an undertable -- an unstable air mass and there are some back

over towards the peninsular and we have 400 to 400 in the morning. grabbing right back around that low, it is going to give us a line forming and it is starting to pick up heading back from the valley and you can see the numerous lightning strikes up in mendocino county about an hour ago and from livermore back over towards the peninsular and back to the dumbarton, back to san mateo, it is picked up towards redwood city and atherton and milpitas and -- milpitas and also the cloud deck as well. the days are very look so it would not take much probably inland as well, 60s and 70s and we have just plunged from the temperatures on the weekend.

it will be a cooler pattern, settling tuesday and then another low is showing signs of dropping on sunday. a dramatic rescue caught on tape, the incredible feet of strength. and a man claiming to be a u.s. intelligence leak, his reason for giving up that information, i will have more on that in just a minute. we are telling her how much we love her and we are going to miss her. they are taken off life support, a photo is left behind, what the school is doing to remember those victims. 97

. welcome back, finals will resume after a shooting rampage. john is the man who shot and killed his father and brother before going to santa monica college and shooting students. yesterday 26-year-old marcel died from her wounds and was in a car with her father and her father also died in that attack. >> my husband was a very wonderful husband. she was my husband's little girl. >> three other people died in the shootings and the suspect

himself was shot and killed by police. later today a vigil is plan had by santa monica college. one goh is due back in court for the shooting at oikos university. they will get a report on the competency of one goh. back in january a judge ruled he was not competent to stand trial and right now he is being held at a mental hospital and the judge sits spended all legal -- suspended all legal proceedings. it was in the process of being demolished on to a thrift store and one attorney said the work should have been done by hand and not with machinery. a crane operator is facing manslaughter charges because he

was high on marijuana and pain pills when operating that crane. so far, four lawsuits have been filed. he is behind a league of u.s. intelligence and she has been digging anything edward's past, kyla? >> reporter: pam, he has his ged and lacks a college degree and said his computer skills helped him land jobs with the cia. the 29-year-old is considered a low-level employee with the private contractor that does the work for the national security agency and other groups. he is a among thousands of analysts hired to sift through data and he said the government went too far allowing them to collect phone records of millions of customers

nationwide. they need to know whether or not these surveillance policies are right. >> even if you are not going anything wrong, the storable capability increases every year. she says it thwarted major terroristic attacks and meanwhile he is held up in hong kong, the punishment they are to expect for leaking this information when i see you next. nelson mandela remains in a hospital in johannessberg. today mark of the third day he has been hospitalized. doctors say he is being treated for a recurring lung infection and yesterday prayer services were held in his honor. and it was terrific.

the two leaders met in rancho marriage about cyber hacking attacks and they both agreed, north korea has to give up their nuclear weapons. he did appear at the home of ben hickey on friday and he was first scheduled on monday but the date was changed last week. tickets start at $500 and $2,500 will give you a photo with the vice-president. it has been three weeks since he declared a crime emergency following a series of shooting and they examined in that time police have made more than two dozen arrests.

the chief says they are focused on prevention to help reduce crime. good samaritans came through after a rollover crash. this is video from the scene and it shows a group of people throwing the overturned truck avenue and the cause of the crash is tell under investigation. >> can you imagine that? >> oh, my goodness. sal will help you get to where you need to go and sal, can you help the folks in contra costa? >> there was a lot of people screaming in that video. i am glad nobody was hurt. let's look at the commute on

highway 4 between and knock and pittsburgh and concord looks good and i want to move the maps down and we are doing free time check and right now it is early enough to jump ahead of the crowd. this is a look at 880 and i stipulationed 880 but when get to the stalled vehicle. mother nature putting on reports and it is all coming around this low coming into southern california and north and east are now pointing south and the lightning, 400 plus

strikes midnight to 4:00 a.m. and there is a little line forming in the valley starting to come in and lakeport clear lake, ukiah, over toward semolina as well, things are really lit up here, not all of that lightning and also san jose mill beats and stretching back towards roaner park and atherton. you can see everything wrapping back around here and it is still with the line picking up, it is starting to come in from the east actually from the valley back over the next couple of hours and we have a mix of sun and clouds, probably an amazing sunrise and temperatures have gone from above inland and today the low

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. welcome back, time now 6:24, palo alto homeowners can expect to get a tax bill from city hall. many people are using services to rent out rooms, cottages and even homes staying in palo alto, however the city's tax code says anybody who provides hotel services must pay 12% tax on it. >> oop and they are sponsoring a liberty hack -- >> and they are sponsoring a liberty hackathon and they say the hackathon will be a competition among teens to develop a web application in a weekend. sheriff's deputies are warning hikers about the dangers of grow operations and

drug agents issued the warnings after discovering 7,000 marijuana plants right around the send legal in -- semolina area. and agents say hikers and horseback riders should stay on well traveled trails and could be dangerous. and they remain unclaimed this morning and was on tully road and was worth $317,000. here is a look at the winning numbers, they are 10, 32, 31 and 37 and the winning particular wet was the only one to match all 5 numbers. keeping an eye on traffic, it has not been quiet and things have beginning to settle down and let's look at some of these things we have, and i want to show you the traffic and northbound 280 coming up to

highway 17, at least in santa clara valley it shows signs of doing well and there are no major problems on 680, coming off the pass it is showing signs of earlier problems, let's go to steve. it is an angry sky out there as jenny just said in venetia, i agree we had an unbelievable display -- unbelievable display and we had cloudy and storms and it has been rather breezy in some of the higher elevations and the winds will kick out, thunderstorms are possible not only this morning but later today as well. >> thank you steve. freeway signs are covered in graffiti in oakland. the vandalism is causing some

confusion for drivers on interstate 880. good morning, the commute is illuminated by lightning and i will have a wrap up of all the best reports here in the bay area. we will take you live to the opening bell this morning and we will show you what happens after that big gain on friday.

. right on time the opening bell, s&p 500's outlook is stable and up from negative and that's after having a positive impact on numbers, s&p 500 and nasdaq are looking to gain and they will already opening higher and it looks like those futures are opening in just a bit and we will get you all of

the business news in just a bit. >> we will smile and say good morning, it is monday june 10th, i am dave clark. well, mother nature is putting on quite a show this morning and hundreds of lightning strikes have been spotted all over the bay area. fire agencies are definitely worried about this and katie joins us from menlo park. >> reporter: well the morning commute is definitely illuminated by some of those lightning strikes. my photographer says oh, there is is another one and it is starting to clear up a bit and let me show you, for the most part the storm is delivering dry lightning without rain which is particularly dangerous and several areas has dried up the grass and the fire watch covers parts of the north bay

and parts of the mt. diablo range and these pictures, i want to show you really illustrates that. he said the flash is so bright, he shot this photo and he captured the strike north of vacaville within the last hour and they have seen lightning in fremont and they have seen hundreds of lightning strikes in morning in the east bay, napa and sonoma and solano counties and we are tracking that fire danger keeping our eyes on the sty and if you have been able to capture any photos, please feel free to tweet us or e-mail us at news

tips ktvu channel 2 morning news. >> all right, katie, 632, san francisco police are searching for the owners of a house which burst into flames just hours ago and they are telling us what they found as they were putting out those flames, alex? >> they responded to reports of a house fire which is behind us and they saw smoke coming from this place but they found a small fire and a good growing marijuana operation. this place quickly grew to a crime scene as they loaded everything into the back of a pickup truck. this grow was uncovered after the fire started at the home just before 1:00 this morning and this is on the 500 block of

35th avenue. firefighters found marijuana plants and found a dangerous electrical set up and a ventilation system as well and clearly a lot of work had been done to this home. >> there was an illegal addition to the rear of the home and that can enhance our ability to hoes our needs once we got to the door and we had to knock it down. >> an arson investigator will figure out how the fire actually started. nobody was here when they got to the house but they do believe people are living at

the home. a narcotics task force will be trying to figure it out. ktvu channel alex savage, ktvu channel 2 morning news. tara moriarty is in oakland where these vandalized signs have definitely caused some confusion and it is amazing they were able to do this. >> i know because it is so high up and they are wondering how they managed to get up there and you can sort of see right beyond the wall there is a pole where they could have climbed up and it is just to give you an idea where we are, 880 in oakland just before the mcarthur maze, this sign where the freeway split has been painted over and you can still see the numbers east to west. for some drivers it will certainly be confusing. >> terrible things can happen. what if you get lost. >> and no word on when it will

be cleaned up and how much it will cost to remove. live in oakland, tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 morning news. they are hoping witnessing come forward with information leading to an arrest in the city's first homicide of the year. somebody fired several shots outside of the peacock lounge early sunday morning. one person was killed and another injured, and according to the san jose mercury, people were gathered to watch a hip- hop performance. california lawmakers are working out a new budget deal for june 15th. and after years of budget deficits, now they are dealing with an unexpected surplus. they are talking about unexpected cuts and they are putting the money into a rainy day fun and their salaries will

be suspended until they do. supporters and critics of proposition 8 are closely watching the u.s. supreme court. they have to have a ruling which can happen every day. they will not be over even after the court rules and they have -- differrerring legal opinions to all 50 states or even in the most extreme cases to only the two people represented in the lawsuit. today is the start of apple worldwide. apple ceo tim cook has already said, no new products have been unveiled apt the conference and bloggers expect them to announce their radio service and the conference is sold out, apple will live stream events to people who have the apple television much course.

>> of course. >> time now 6:37, is this a good time to be heading towards the toll plaza. there is a crowd up there dave and pam and let's look at the mcarthur maze, backed up and it is backed up for about a 25 minute wait before you make it onto the span. this is a look at interstate 880 and in both directions traffic does look good. e off to a good start and und there is a minor crash on the shoulder which is not causing a big tie up, let's go to steve. we have reports of rain and lightning, still some thunder and heavy rain over san jose, it is all associated with a bigelow. what we had in the next three days, we go with thunderstorms

and sometimes it can happen in august and september. some of that lightning will continue to get reports and even a big fog bank, let's not forget that as well. thunderstorms, not only this morning but later this afternoon as well, it is definitely unstable, and the move is going towards fresno and the days are he can treatmently long. lightning reports are numerous and lake county and parts of the east bay things are really leading up. from thower dale to didn't lean in, that is sprung stretching back over to semolina and they had 2 / 10th of an inch much rain and there were some

lightning strikes and it looks like things have calmed down a little bit and some have stretched down at menlo park and we have seen some 50s on the temperatures and these will not change too much and it will be a very cool down and some of that moisture comes wrapping back around from the valley. today win dip showers, a mix much sun and -- windy, showers and a mix of sun and clouds and the temperatures just dropped off the table, incredible difference. and today will be another day of thunderstorms and it does look warmer towards the middle of the week and we have another low dropping in by sunday. a stretch limo going to a fire and then a fire. >> i was telling one woman hurry up pause they use their walkers. and that neighborhood watch man shot and killed the unarmed

teen trayvon martin and we will bring a live report about the selection of a jury. not a bad drive right now heading to the tunnel, stay tuned for more news, weather and traffic.

. we have heavy rain over san jose and we have a possibility of thunderstorms to the north and things could really pick up. here is a quick look at some of the top stories at 6:43, just hours ago, police removed hundreds of marijuana plants from a burping house in the richmond district. they called to put out a fire in the rear of that house and it is still not clear who owns that house. a fire watch is covering many bay area communities this morning, thunderstorms and light lit are a big concern. in fact the lightning is blamed for a grass fire just outside of vacaville and it burned for about three hours before it was put out. a 58-year-old dublin woman was hit and killed after riding her bicycle. the woman as husband was also hit by the car but only

suffered minor injuries and the 18-year-old driver was questioned and then released. >> happening in florida, the trial starts for george zimmerman, the neighborhood watch man charged with shooting and killing trayvon martin and a jury selection is set to begin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, pam, i will bring you up to speed as to what is happening right here and at 9:00 things got underway an accident accident's attorney essentially asked the judge to delay the jury selection because they wanted to talk more about evidence in this case but the judge said no, we are going to go ahead and start with jury selection and so that is where we are right now. court is in recess and they have now handed out questions to potential jurors.

they are inside the building right now and the first set of them are filling that out and once that is all done, attorneys on both sides, anything they want to ask questions are, will do that at that time. george zimmerman shook hands with one of the men at the defense table and took his seat and that's where we are right now and we expect this will all last about four to five days as far pass jury selection goes and at the end of it, they will pick some six jurors and at least two alternates. >> renee marsh in florida, thanks so much for the update and this will be a lengthy process starting now. supporters of trayvon martin have declared today national hoodie day in his

honor. demonstrators in oakland are planning on wearing a hoodie to become symbolic to the teen. the protest will start at the fruit veil bart station and end on broadway. protest is are planned across the country. they are bringing back memories of a tragedy from just a month ago. walnut creek investigating a limousine packed with women on their way to a party. seven elderly women and three caregivers were going to a 96th birthday party when their limousine burst into flames. moments later they pulled to the curb and told everybody to get out. >> the smoke -- the black smoke was just billowing out to the first third of the car.

>> well the limousine burst into flames and they were shaken up as you can imagine but luckily nobody was hurt. in fact the ladies went on to their birthday party and right now it appears an electrical problem started that fire. this starts as one month after that deadly tragedy, after five women going to a wedding celebration were killed when they were trapped in the back of a limousine town car. they are investigating both of the causes of that fire and how the drivers responded. they are trying to put out a wildfire in riverside and so far, it is 15% contained. it is causing a lot of fire and no word on what started that

fire. >> and there is more for 'attack that killed several. afghan authorities say two attackers blew themselves up and police shot and killed 5 others and insurgence have rocket propelled grenades and a bomb. starting next month, the price goes up for muni's monthly passes. the only pass will go from 64 to $67 and it all starts july 1st. a similar increase starts next year and a muni senior and passes for low income riders. it is kind of a busy monday

in some areas. traffic is moving along slowly in some areas and the bridge is slowest to be sure in the east shore getting out to the bay bridge and it's slow on west 80 with no major problems and it is backed up against the mcarthur maze there was 'earlier stalled vehicle. and getting into the national airport because of the low clouds you should check with your carrier, it will lead to a better average and just go ahead and call your carrier and see if your flight is delayed. also rain, sal, we have lake county and northern sonoma and a pretty good show more mother nature and watch how the

first ban came in overnight and we had 400 strikes overnight and it is actually wrapping back around and there is another ban coming in from the valley moving towards san jose, and lightning in the forecast lightning thunder, you name it and most of the action is right into ukiah and up in semolina, we had a line stretching right back to the san joaquin valley and right back to the peninsular and right over towards daily city. you can see right there, this is going to be a very active day. highs today will be really cool compared to where we were a few days ago. a good 40 degrees inland and temperatures even with the low clouds and fog, or rain today,

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. welcome back, dow jones industrial average is up just a little bit and not as much as

expected after the s&p 500 standard importers and a couple of big names to report, lieu lou lemon and that should be interesting. bicycles are being allowed back on market street for the first time in san francisco since a major paving project shut it down over the weekend. this is how different looks. they laid down tons of asphalt and they say it is leading to a much smoother ride. police in walnut creek are sending a strong warning to ladies who use a popular east bay trail and here is a new sketch for a man exposing himself, there have been several reported cases and the most recent one happened and

the man has dirty blond hair. in san francisco, an horde ed ordinance -- an ordinance regulated a debate and food trucks can stay in one location and would reduce the number of food trucks one location while adding some other locations around the city. the food trucks are operated by chain restaurants may also be banned. they will decide whether to send that ordinance over to the full board of supervisors. coming up, another quick look at traffic with sal. >> right now it is moving well and the pay brent had an earlier span. some major delays are expected at fso. things are real kicking

around up in sonoma and mendocino and rain and thunderstorms are expected and even reports of hail and some batter shouts off the -- some waterspouts off the coast. >> waterspouts? >> yes, that is a tornado in the water. >> that would not surprise me. you heard steve, nature... putting on a show like we have not seen in awhile. hundreds of lightning strikes all over the bay area. an early morning fire in san francisco, crews found more than just flames at that scene, we will be right back.

hundreds of lightning strikes are being spotted all across the bay area. this morning's wild weather now has fire agencies on alert. a fire scene becomes a crime scene in san francisco what the crews found when they responded to an early-morning fire. >> that black, black smoke was just bill billowing out of the car. >> a stretch limo, ten women heading to a fire. this time it's in the east bay. some of the women