now at noon, evacuations in the east bay because of a gas leak. you will see the scene live where the story just changed minutes ago. some oakland leaders and residents say the shooting death of a much loved woman this week is the last straw. >> we are tired of what is going on and we want to take back our streets. >> ahead a call for action announced late this morning. developing news from washington on an ethics investigation into one of the most controversial members of congress, michelle bachman. >> complete bay area news

coverage starts right now. this is ktvu channel 2 news at noon. >> good afternoon, everybody, i am brian flores in for tori campbell. we begin with breaking news. you are looking at live pictures of a gas leak that has prompted evacuations of a number of east bay apartment complexes. it was reported at 9:45 in richmond at the intersection of marina bay parkway and regatta boulevard. we are told a contractor there ruptured a gas main. >> ther supposed to check but that didn't happen. >> firefighters went door to door telling people who live at several nearby apartment complexes to evacuate. many left with the clothes on their backs. >> i left my car and luckily i brought my purse and cell phones and keys but i can't go anywhere. >> there is concern about an explosion and san bruno comes to mind and things like that,

so there is definitely a concern. >> an update now on the gas leak, pg&e tells us that crews capped the leak 30 minutes ago. at last check residents were still waiting for the all clear to return to their homes. this afternoon the city council map is calling for a state of emergency after the latest deadly violence. as paul chambers reports respects say enough is enough. >> judy solomon and elisha carradine shot and killed in oakland within the last two weeks. >> this is the worst that i have seen in this neighborhood in 45 years. >> today members of this oakland community are demanding that things change. wednesday afternoon solomon, a beloved pet sitter was shot and killed a few blocks from her home. solo solomon was in the area picking up animals and last week she

was shot and since then they brought flower for both of them and they said it is time for things to change. >> get mad, take action and take ownership of your neighborhood. >> enough is enough and oakland is not going to live like this anynor. >> we live here and we are not going to stay in our houses and hide from them and let mem take over. >> one by one the community spoke, saying it is time they stood together and not let the death of carradine or solomon be in vain. >> it is time for us to take back our city. take back our streets. >> in her memory let's take back this neighborhood. >> in oakland, paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. >> a cleveland man who held three women captive for more than a decade agrees to plea guilty, in exchange ariel castro avoids the death penalty but the terms of the deal stipulate he is sentenced to live in prison without the possibility of parole, they escaped in may when one of the

women kicked through the door and ran for help. a woman said a intruder broke into her apartment and sexually assaulted her, janine de la vega joins us live from santa clara to explain what they are doing now. >> reporter: good afternoon, police have been canvassing the neighborhood and going door to door talking to neighbors asking them if they heard anything or saw anyone suspicious hanging around near this apartment complex. they are still trying to confirm a crime happened here. police have been focusing their attention on a first floor apartment. police say they received a 911 call at 4:00 a.m. from a woman saying her roommate had been sexually assaulted, officers were told by the woman she woke up to a strange man hovering over her head and she said he held a box cutter to her throat and raped, she was taken to the hospital to be evaluated, a spokesman said they are working to confirm those allegations are

true and taking this seriously. >> we tread lightly on all these sexual assaults cases. we are going to talk to anybody involved and a lot of the evidentiary things going on, we will take all those details and put them together. >> police say there may be signs of a forced entry. investigators say it appears someone may have broken through a rear window then exited from the front door. detectives are collecting evidence to help them piece together what happened. police say the neighborhood has little crime and sexual assaults by strangers are rare. those who live nearby say it is unsettling. >> i have a daughter and she -- you know she is 18 and she comes in you know later at night and now i am a little bit more anxious, want to keep -- make sure my windows and doors are locked so you know there is nobody trying to get into my house. >> police are in the process of reinterviewing the woman and her roommate to get more details. she initially gave such a vague suspect description that police

never released that information. and there is currently no active search for him. janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> details are coming to light in the rescue of a woman held by men accused of growing a marijuana operation. they say they grew more than 1000 marijuana plants on their property. court documents say the men forced the girl to help process marijuana, confined her at times in a 4 by two foot box and sexually abused her, the sexual abuse shocked people in lake county. >> one thing but sexual abuse is very bad i mean obviously. that is absolutely wrong. >> the two men face charges of conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana and using a minor in illegal drug operations it came after an

investigation that took nearly three months. aman accused of using pepper spray to force his way into a home in fremont remains on the loose. police say the suspect rang the doorbell at a house on porter street and blake howell road yesterday. when the woman opened the door he doused her with pepper spray and then got into a fight with a man in the house and shots were fired. the swat team responded but he escaped. the fame is not hurt. the suspect is a thin 30-year- old latino man with a long bushy ponytail, goatee and tatoos above both eyebrows. construction crews may be moving forward with the quick fix for the new eastern span of the bay bridge. ktvu news has learned special wedge like materials designed to make sure the new bridge will with stand a earthquake will be ready by early next month. this material called shims will be used after the failure of a few dozen metal rods caused major safety concerns. however, there will be a number of safety reviews in the weeks

ahead. >> this idea of using the shims to open the bridge sooner is being vetted but again no decisions have been made as to whether or not the shems can be used that and no decisions made on a new opening date. >> it is still possible though the new bridge could open during the labor day weekend as planned. the next round of across the board government spending cuts could take a heavy toll on the u.s. economy. these latest cuts known as sequestration begin next week, in a new study found they could cost as many as 1.6 million jobs. sequestration effects everything from the military to unemployment benefits. congresswoman michele bachmann is now under a full- blown ethnics investigation in washington, d.c., an attorney for her confirmed in march a congressional panel was looking into financial matters linked to her white house bid. today that probe was extended

to the full committee. she announced earlier this year she would not be running for re- election. >> the garlic festival is on here in gilroy. what are all these people out here to see? well the flaming chefs, the pyro chefs. i will give you a behind the scenes look at the 35th annual gilroy garlic festival. >> the weekend is almost here, steve paulson will be up in just about 9 minutes. >> vandals strike the lincoln memorial and the quick response there. ♪ ♪

the ktvu news at noon, well, a big rig overturned on a freeway on-ramp this morning and leaked oil and fuel on to the road it happened on the southbound on-ramp of highway 29 in vallejo at 4:15 this morning. it remained closed. the driver was not hurt but he was driving too fast. a chase ended with a crash there, two people were injured, they tried to pull over a car before 1:00, the driver took off and crashed near al ham bra avenue, the helicopter took one

victim to a hospital, the other wept by ambulance to highland hospital. no word on their conditions this afternoon. well, it is that time of the year when the smell of garlic is hard to miss in southern santa clara county. katie is there where all those aromatic favorites are being cooked up. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon, it is a sensory overload here, it is hot, it is loud and it smells delicious. we have garlic ice cream, garlic calamari and prongs, we have hundreds of thousands of people out here and what i have learned in the short time i have been here is that people cannot get enough garlic. some people attend the gilroy garlic festival annually, like five-year-old lexy hamilton. >> i like them, i always see this every year. >> others have been late to the table. >> we came down for the weekend and this has been on my bucket list for the 35 years.

so we are here. >> on the menu at gourmet alley. >> don't forget your pepper steak sandwiches. >> we took about 2000 pounds of it today, seasoned with a special little seasoning and, of course lots of garlic, we throw that on there for good looks and extra flavor. >> and pasta. >> a lot. tons of it. tons of it. >> we service the combo plates and the pasta, so it is a lot of pasta today. one of the best-sellers. >> 100,000 people will attend the gilroy garlic festival and it takes a small army to feed that many people. about 4000 local non-profit and school volunteers. >> -- this is great. >> serving of garlic is about more than just tasty cuisine, thousands of dollars will go to the local community. >> just goes for a good cause. a lot of nice people, great atmosphere, just fun to be here. >> and fun for even the most

particular pallette. >> i think everybody should try the garlic ice cream. >> i am a little skeptical. what is it like? it is garlic. but it is free. >> i tried the garlic ice cream, it tastes like garlic, pretty tasty if you are into trying new things head on down to gilroy, the gates open at 10:00 a.m. and the festival goes through sunday, rather, excuse me, they will go through 1105 gallon buckets of missensed garlic, that is how much it takes to put this festival on, so brian i say bring the family on down, a good time in gilroy. >> and i expect garlic ice cream to be back here at the station. katie thank you so much. the lincoln memorial is expected to re-open later today after someone splattered green paint on the base of the statute in washington, d.c. the vandalism occurred overnight. u.s. park police say the vandals did not write anything but got green paint on the

floor and at the base near his foot. crews spent the morning cleaning up the mess. >> it is not permanent. it can be cleaned. we have very good historic preservation crews right up there now cleaning it as we speak. >> a suspect has not been identified either. and a motive remains unclear. local employees are preparing for the possibility of more protests this weekend. there was violence and vandalism in downtown oakland hours after the not guilty verdict in the george zimmerman case in florida. and oakland's acting police chief is vowing to do everything possible to keep the peace this weekend. next week the oakland city council will consider banning the so-called tools of violence and make it a crime to carry hammers, clubs, wrenches and other items during demonstrations. now to our continuing coverage of the bart negotiations, we are just days

away from a strike. the talks started up again but there are growing concerns they won't be able to reach a deal in time. bay area transit leaders are looking into hiring charter buses for commuters if there is another strike on august 4th but it would take 8000 busses to carey the passengers bart normally carriesy each day, new bike racks aimed at drawing their attention. they are dined to look like bikes just like that and along part of the boulevard there. near is no bike lane there, forcing bikes and cars to share the same roadway. the owner of the bike shop we spoke with says the design is no accident. >> the thought was if they look like bicycles it would help raise awareness of cycling downtown and help cars when they come downtown to think about bicycles and keeping out for cyclists. >> he also tells us he hopes to take the members of the city council on a bike ride in the fall so they can appreciated how dangerous the loop area is

without a dedicated bike lane. if you plan on driving in the bay area tonight you might want to allow yourself extra time. in addition to the usual friday night traffic coming to the city there is also a concert featuring jay z and justin timberlake, the giants and as have games and concerts also. to top it all off the public bike ride critical mass happens tonight in san francisco as well. for more traffic information log onto our website and click on hot topics. picture an astronaut in space controlling a robot here on earth. that is what was going on at nasa aims in mountainview this morning. the flight engineer of the european space agency was at the controls in the international space station. the project's manager talked to us live here on mornings on 2. >> we are really trying to

understand how we can enable astronauts to do work far beyond a spacecraft, in particular how to do remotely operated robots to do work here or perhaps on the moon or mars. >> today's test was a repeat of that one. >> well, the end of the workweek shows a cooler pattern. we started off with the hot temperatures and high humidity and the humidity left and the temperatures wipt up, 90s and 100s, coast has not changed, still fog around, rerighting back there but back tonight and tomorrow and looks like it will play definitely into our weekend forecast. there is a westerly breeze, most inland locations are down, compared to 24 hours ago. there has been a lot of tropical clouds especially there but still hot inland, ukentucky a-clear lake, vacaville put the trend i think you probably even noticed that, i noticed those are cooler, 60s, 70s, coast and bay, cooling trend into the weekend, more fog, gusts of 36 this morning at travis and probably

back tonight and tomorrow. fog, back now to the coast, some areas not far inland 70s and 80s, big time thunderstorms erupted yesterday tahoe, truckee and renne o-things quieter today so far, southern california had rain, palm springs, san diego and los angeles, look at that moisture from arizona, lake havasu and big boomers there and dry earth beginning to punch in in california but not only that a tropical storm flossy, i bring that up because it is heading the direction and path towards this hawaiian islands and not expected to reach hurricane strength if you are heading there would not impact the big island until monday or tuesday so see how that develops. 80s livermore but those areas have those temperatures, still a westerly component or a southwest or a northwest for everybody, so the sea breeze is

in place, it doesn't help some but it definitely helps sacramento where they are 78, 98 palm springs with that rain, clouded close but stays south of tahoe and truckee, coastal fog, cooler pattern today with us tonight into tomorrow and also right into sunday and it looks like may keep it there, the outlook does kind of have temperatures being near average to below for many, still hot one more for them other areas upper 68s or near 90 that were near 99 or 100 not too long ago, temperatures inland looks like though probably just get to 50s 60s by the coast, 70s, 80s, 90s inland and looks quiet as we go bryan into next week. >> i like quiet. >> i do too. >> it has been a crazy week. >> they are replacing cards after they were hit by a cyber

attack. they have reissued more than 18,000 debit cards, redwood took action on behalf of customers who shop at those stores, the credit union says there have been 200 causes of fraud involving card holders at the stores. the family of a man who disappeared are offering a 5000 dollar reward for information leading to his whereabouts. the last time anyone reports seeing 19-year-old shawn city was hen he visited his former high school in the city. he is considered at risk too because of a traumatic brain injury and because he did not have his medication with him. the last call on his cell phone was traceed to golden gate park, anyone who has seen city is asked to call police. still ahead why people

welcome back to the ktvu news at noon, almost the weekend, we are also keeping an eye on the stocks as well, new york stock exchange numbers are down a little bit, almost 17 points, the s&p down, do you is also down, nasdaq is up by almost three points. mark zuckerberg is preparing to take another political stand and will speak at the premier of a film about undocumented immigrants in america, the movie will be

shown there, his speech is a sign of silicon valley's interest in immigration reform. bars across the country are being called on to boycott russian vodka. >> vodka -- >> some customers at san francisco bars are specifically saying they won't drink that vodka, the most popular brand in the u.s., that is after the russian government banned public displays of homosexuality and imposed fines on any one who holds gay pride rallies but some bars say they support the brand. >> it here in america has been been nothing but supportive of the gay community. >> the ceo posted a letter on the company website saying they sponsor gay pride events around the world and opposes the actions. 12:26, coming up more on

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