rosa at 44. napa at 47 degrees. there goes our system. it's out of the picture. we have to wait for tomorrow for that low to drop down. detroit looks fine otherwise. san jose we'll start you off with a cool 51. a high today of 76. down 5 from yesterday at 81. there goes our system. the low is getting its act together to the north. it won't make an impact until tomorrow. most of that will be in the sierra nevada. sunny and nice today, a cold morning for some, not for all. a little cooler. we'll give way to 70s. here's sal. steve good morning. right now we're off to a decent start in most communities. traffic hooks good. if you're driving at the bay bridge toll plaza, a nice looking drive with no major problems getting into and out of san fransisco along the bay bridge and that includes the toll plaza. also we're looking at the commute here on interstate 880, and that commute looks very

nice with no major problems. the traffic continues to look very good. we've been looking at 580 in the valley, westbound 580 traffic usually gets busy coming in over the altamonte pass. right now it looks good over to castro valley where traffic is light on 880. at 430 let's go back to the desk. we begin with developing news from san fransisco. police are investigating the suspicious death of a baby. alex savidge joins us from san fransisco general hospital with the mystery surrounding this tragedy. alex. >> reporter: police say a woman brought her baby 7 months old here to san fransisco general hospital early this morning where that child was later pronounced dead and police are investigating this as a suspicious death they say. the child arrived at the hospital just about 12:30 this morning, not long after that, the medical examiner was called out. now police will only say this was a 7-month-old baby. we don't know at this point if it was a boy or a girl, and the

cause of death at this point remains unclear. we did, however, see several san fransisco police detectives who were out here at san fransisco general in the hospital parking lot. they were focused in on a white car short timing a parked right outside of the emergency room. it's unclear who that car belongs to but police tell us they have homicide investigators involved in this case, and they are trying to piece together exactly what happened and how this child ended up dead. they are interviewing the baby's mother and talking with family members. detectives telling me they don't have much information. at this point the investigation is in its early stages. live this morning in san fransisco, alex savidge ktvu channel 2 news. there's new hope for a settlement when negotiations in the b.a.r.t. labor dispute resume at 9:30 this morning. today's contract talks come after perhaps the most encouraging sign that the two sides may be moving closer to a deal just days before this week's critical strike

deadline. late yesterday b.a.r.t. unions announced they would not issue a 72 hour strike notice for friday morning. >> we do not want a strike. we want that to be made perfectly clear. we understand the disruption. we understand the impact of everybody in the bay area, and we want it clear that we are not intending to do that. we want a deal. the 72-hour strike notice is not required by law. however, union workers did give notice before the b.a.r.t. strike in july and the pending strike in august. the san fransisco bay ferry is getting ready to expand service if b.a.r.t. workers do walk off the job friday morning. later today the ferry service will announce its schedule for increased service across the bay in the event of a strike. the bay area commuters packed the ferries during the last b.a.r.t. strike in july. there's new evidence showing just how many people use b.a.r.t. to get around. the transit agency reports more than 444,000 passengers rode b.a.r.t. trains just on friday when

there were two big events. that's the fifth higher ridership day ever. they attribute it to the a's, fans taking it to the oakland coliseum and the bluegrass festival in golden gate park. if you drive through the cal decot tunnel, you'll notice a change. caltrans will turn on new traffic lights at about 10:30 this morning in the third bore. they'll stay green for ten days while crews test ten new inner tunnel traffic signals. it will go into service later this year. when activated the lights will be able to turn yellow and red in response to accidents, stalls or other traffic delays. new this morning, firefighters in santa cruz county are still on the scene of a destructive fire that damaged two homes. it occurred around 1:00 this morning. so far there are no reports of injuries but the fire briefly forced the evacuation of the neighborhood. the red cross is also providing

shelter for the families forced out of their homes. so far there's no word on what caused the fire. time now is 4:34. the u.s. da says raw chicken processed at three foster farms facilities in central california is the likely source of a salmonella outbreak. the outbreak has spread to 18 states but most of the cases are in california. foster farms says its products are safe to eat if properly handled and fully cooked. >> those people who have low immune system or those people that actually have kids or elderly and kids are particularly at risk. >> now the affected packages contain the usda marked p6137, p6137a, and p7632. meantime foster farms released a statement saying in part we take food safety very seriously. when the incidence of illness

link today salmonella increased we wanted to know why and have worked quickly to implement additional controls. later today, the oakland a's will battle against the detroit tigers. the a's claimed another victory yesterday morning. that means if they win today's game they will move on to the next round of playoffs. if they lose they will head back to the oakland on thursday for game 5. either way, though, these are pretty exciting times for a's fans who are snatching up green and gold gear. >> when the a's win people are walking around with smiles on their faces. we love to kind of capture that image of oakland. >> in rock ridge a bartender has created a cocktail celebrating the athletics concocted of bourbon and honey. it is named the good old green and gold. there were tense moments yesterday. during the 9th inning victor

martinez and balfour got into it. the home plate umpire got in between them and the benches cleared. the players would remain in the game. sports reporter fred inglis is in detroit covering the series. he's going to give us a live report with a preview of today's game. we're also going to have complete coverage of the a's playoffs throughout the day here on ktvu. we have continuing coverage now on the government shutdown and efforts to avoid a default on the national debt. the government could default on its debt next week if congress fails to raise the borrowing limit. senate democrats -- republicans say any deal to raise the debt limit must also lower the cost of entitle. programs like medicare and social security. >> they shut down the government. now they say we're going to threaten the credit worthiness of the united states of america and possibly the world economy. >> the president should be doing what bill clinton did in

1995 and calm these people over the white house sit down, having a conversation. >> the white house says the president prefers a long-term debt ceiling increase but has not ruled out asking for a short-term increase. the government shutdown is having an impact on small businesses that rely on spending from federal workers. the owner of city bloom flower shop in oakland says sales are down 20% from a week ago. that's because most of the stores regular customers work at the federal building right across the street. >> a lot of the people, the regular people that come in to just buy flowers for themselves for their desk or for gifts. >> it just feels lonely. it feels lonely, and it feels very hurtful. >> the house has passed a measure to retroactively pay hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal employees, but many say they don't know how long they'll have to wait for those checks. happening now, a group of homeless people and their

advocates are camped out in albany after being told they'll be evicted from a waterfront park. a few dozen people set up an overnight camp in protest. they are fighting the city's decision to start enforcing no camping laws later this month at the park known as the albany bulb. >> if they want to kick out their homeless people from where they've told their homeless people they can live for years they should have somewhere else to put their homeless people instead of sidewalks or other towns. >> this is an ongoing situation that we're trying to find caring and compassionate solutions for. >> city leaders are working to relocate the homeless through a partnership with the nonprofit berkeley food and housing project. today san carlos city leaders will go before the california public utilities commission, the agency that oversees pg&e. the mayor and others will express their growing safety concerns over a natural gas pipeline that runs across the city. on friday san carlos declared a state of emergency and got a court order ordering pg&e to

shut down the pipeline. today the city will insist that pipeline remain shut down until pg&e can guarantee no one is in danger. >> we have isolated the line, and the line is not in active service. we do believe we are complying with the court's order. >> how much information do they have on their own pipe? i don't think they have very much. at least they haven't given it to us. >> san carlos sought the court order after receiving a copy of an internal pg&e e-mail. they expressed concern the pipeline could cause an explosion. time now is 4:40. happening now in san jose, police are on the scene of a crash. police tell janine de la vega a driver fell asleep at the wheel, hit several cars and crashed near an apartment. janine joins us live with the latest. >> reporter: yes, i'm here on camden avenue near donna lane, and you can see there's a lot of shattered glass and debris behind me. this is what was left of an accident that happened that

caused a lot of damage here. a pickup truck that you see over there has gone right and hit this building right over here. i can't tell if there's actually a hole there, but we're told by police that it didn't actually enter the building, but it did shake up the people who were sleeping inside. we were told by police officers that the driver of that car apparently admitted to falling asleep at the wheel. he was coming down camden here in the northbound lanes, and he hit three parked cars that were -- two were on camden, another one was on donna lane. so right now those owners of those cars, you know, again they had a rude awakening and woke up to finding all sorts of damage on their car. the driver we're told is not being arrested. we're not sure what's happening with him, but here's what one of the -- one of the owners of the damaged cars had to tell us. >> he looked a little tired. he said he'd fallen asleep coming around this corner, and

i don't know. veered off the road and woke up in front of the house. so it was a third time this has happened since i've lived here for four years. we've had three vehicles hit, two totaled. >> so. >> reporter: a lot of frustrated car owners here as well as people who got a rude awakening this morning. you can see there is a work crew out here dealing with the damage to the apartment building. police are still out here investigating. they still have to do some of the cleanup of the debris, but, again, no injuries so that is the good news here. reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 news. time now is 4:42. a strong smell near the san jose airport, coming up at 5:00, the reason some people are concerned about their health and how the airport is responding. >> and thousands of ucsf patient's information at risk. the penalty the hospital could face in connection with the

latest security breach. >> good morning. right now traffic is getting a little bit more crowded, but not really busy. it's still early enough for you to get a pretty good drive anywhere you're driving. we'll tell you more coming up. >> a little brisk out there for some. not for all. it's a colder morning, it will be sunny today but not as warm. some pretty good changes for tomorrow.

welcome back, time now is 4:45, and there's a party today at coat tower to mark the 80th 80th anniversary of the san fransisco landmark. it was built after lily hitchcock coit left a third of her estate to the city and said it should be used to make san fransisco more beautiful. they will gather on telegraph hill at 10 for a celebration including a giant birthday cake. it will conclude with events in north beach tonight. a few hours from now former president jimmy carter will be helping to build homes in san

jose. yesterday he was in oakland lending a hand. it's part of the habitat for humanity program. he says if he was still in the white house he would work with lawmakers to secure more federal funding for affordable housing. >> there's a very needy place for habitat and others to substitute for them when they don't fill those needs, and to give people inspiration and hope. >> he has been working with habitat for humanity for the past 30 years. a laptop computer containing personal and medical information on thousands of ucsf patients was stolen from a workers locked car. the hospital is notifying the patients whose names, birth dates and social security numbers are included in the stolen information. so far there's no sign anyone has tried to use the information. they could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for the latest security breach. san jose state university is looking into a possible rat

problem on campus. it comes after a rat ran across the stage during a speech. students and staff members say they've noticed a lot of a rats in areas surrounded by construction on campus. the school is now looking into whether they have a bigger problem that could impact student's health and safety. the new $100 bill goes into circulation today. the bill has been resigned to make it more difficult for counterfeiters. it has a three dimensional blue ribbon on it. it's at the federal reserve which will start sending it out to banks today. you may be able to get one at your bank before the end of the week. the bay area's cash for clunkers program is making a come back. the air quality management district has announced it received $7 million to continue funding the vehicle buyback program. the program allows people with registered vehicles that are model year 1994 and older to receive $1000 for surrendering their cars. the goal of the program is to

get higher polluting vehicles off the road. >> we should get free samples of the new $100 bills, test them out. see how they work. >> that's a great idea. >> let's go to sal. keep an eye on traffic. how you doing? >> that's been tried brian. >> i thought i was the first. >> let's go out and take a look at what we have now. it's a million dollar commute right now, not $100. come on now. let's go out and take a look at what we have now. traffic looks like a million bucks. it is moving along nicely with no major problems. it is a nice commute also on the san mateo bridge. as you drive through it has been a nice drive, and i want to mention that traffic continues to look good as you get over to the peninsula. when you get over there, highway 101 and 280 are looking good. 280 in the crystal springs area it's not causing a big delay. at 4:49. let's go to steve. you're looking like a million bucks. >> thank you. >> good morning everybody. a little cold out there for

some. listen you folks towards antioch and brentwood, temperatures are between 60 and 64. you get towards santa rosa it's about 42, 43 degrees. there's a huge difference in some of the temps. it is noticeably cooler in san fransisco. it is mostly clear except for patchy fog, down on monterey over to santa cruz as well. system went by yesterday was late on arriving. temperatures are were very nice. we don't have to worry about any rain in detroit. it's clear so everything's good to go for the a's. for us it will be a nice day. we're waiting for the system to drop down tomorrow which will give the sierra nevada snow. i don't think we'll get any rain although could be south bay. san fransisco starting off 53. we'll go 62 a high today of 68. yesterday was 76. 36 up in tahoe, 48 ukiah, 50s down to monterey. 54 eureka. a little chill in the air, 43. napa's in the 40s. walnut creek is 47. i know todd clark at the

pleasant hill police department, 48 in pleasant hill. there are some upper 40s. half-moon bay is 45. 52 at the oakland airport. hardly a breeze, fairfield west at 7 we'll keep an eye on that. almost everybody's saying calm. yesterday there was a little component of an easterly breeze. livermore has that. san jose has that. sfo northwest, so the breeze is trying to come in a little bit cooler. there is some cooler air aloft which will give us more of a little cooldown. the system is dropping down tomorrow. we'll be taking aim more towards the valley or the sierra nevada. end result will be a continuation of this cooling trend. looks like wednesday and thursday will be our coolest day. here again is our cloud and rain forecast. late tonight that system starts to drop in. here's the action for tomorrow. if you have travel plans there, today would be a good day to go. you may be dealing with shower activity and snow. for us we'll get the colder air and the wind will crank up. temperatures will take a good little drop. after wednesday night it's out of here. sunny and nice today, a cold

morning for some, not for all, but for some. it will be a little cooler. highs upper 70s or very low 80s. 70s, some 60s closer to the coast, upper 60s and very low 70s. i think this will be it for the 80s for a couple days. colder and breezy on wednesday, thursday breezy, cool, and sunday cold mornings. thank you very much. an oakland movie house is getting into the playoff spirit as well. the new parkway theater will show today's a's game in detroit on its movie screen as it did yesterday for 85 people. this afternoon's crowd will likely be bigger with a possibility of the a's knocking the tigers out of the hunt. the manager of the theater says capacity is 150 and admission is $5 with special ballpark food served during the game. matt flynn has been released from the oakland raiders. it comes six months after they brought him in to be the starting quarterback. they acquired him in april from

seattle for a 2014, fifth round draft pick and gave him a $6.5 million contract. during a press conference yesterday, the team says they made a mistake. >> didn't work, and terrell came in and he took over the job and he's earned the position that he's in, and so we just felt like it was probably best to go ahead and move on. >> flynn made two appearances for oakland. he came in late to a loss to denver on september 23rd after pry pry or was knocked out with a concussion. coming up a hayward police officer stepping down from the force. more on the serious allegations he's facing this morning. >> also thousands of students will walk to school in san fransisco tomorrow, why the city is expecting record attendance.

time now is 4:55. a prominent san fransisco artist is facing eviction. rene yanez has lived in his restaurant rent controlled apartment for 35 years. he says the owners of the property want to sell the unit leaving him without a place to live. >> it's part of who i am. i've seen this sort of evolution in the mission. >> the owners of the property say they've offered yanez a year's free rent and $21,000 to relocate, but he has refused.

he says the eviction comes at a particularly difficult time because he and his partner are battling cancer. yanez is the founder of several organizations promoting latino culture in san fransisco including the mission cultural center and galleria dela rosa. the hayward police officer accused of extortion is scheduled to face a judge. romeo aberin tried to turn a family suspect and an informant and demanded cash in exchange for not arresting her. he resigned yesterday after turning himself in. in the south bay detectives showed off illegal drugs worth a million and a half dollars they say were seized from a home in east san jose. the santa clara sheriff's department says it confiscated 29 pounds of crystal meth, four pounds of cocaine and 1 pound of heroin. they seized guns and $825,000 in cash. the city of san fransisco

is expecting a record number of students to participate in this year's walk to school event. more than 12,000 elementary students and 76 public schools are holding events tomorrow. that's about a 38% increase compared to last year. in april the mayor launched a campaign to improve safety around five schools each year. tomorrow is national walk and roll to school. >> walk and roll. >> exactly. >> all over the bay area and the country people will be walking. >> say that five times fast. coming up, breaking news from the south bay we're following. a driver fell asleep at the wheel causing big problems in the south bay. we'll have a live update. >> governor brown steps into a heated controversy involving who can sit on a jury. >> good morning if you're trying to hit the road soon, i think right now would be a good time as we look at highway 4, it looks good coming up to concord. >> the weather looks good. it might be a little cold out there for some of you this morning. it looks nice today, a little cooler. the main change will be

tomorrow.

san fransisco police investigating the suspicious death of a baby this morning, how the child ended up at the emergency room. >> we're live in san jose where

the driver of a truck slams into a building near gas meters. we'll tell you what caused him to veer off the road. >> b.a.r.t. workers do not issue a 72-hour notice to strike, but why this still does not guarantee they won't walk off the job on thursday. >> plus it could be san fransisco's biggest mass eviction in 40 years, why as many as 300 people may be forced out of their homes. complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. i want to take you back live to san jose this morning, the scene, you can see a truck right up against a house right there. >> wow. >> we understand from what investigators are saying is the driver fell asleep. so we have a live reporter down there, and we'll check in on that and how it's affecting the area this morning in just a moment. thank you for joining us this tuesday october 8th. i'm pam cook. >> and i'm dave clark. >> thank you very much pam and dave. li have mainly clear skies, a