now at noon, bat kid to the rescue and san francisco as thousands respond to the bat signal to help one little boy's big wish come true. both sides may have agreed on a tentative bart contract but now a small detail could undo it all. after years over waiting we are days away from the opening of the 4th bore at the caldecott tunnel, why crews

were there and what is being done in just over an hour. >> this is ktvu channel two news at noon. >> good afternoon, i am tori campbell. it has already been quite a day for bat kid in san francisco, which has been turned into gotham city. >> before lunch today this little batman had already rescued a damsel in distress and thwarted a bank robbery, you can see the thousands gathered to watch. claudine has been watching this, this little boy is priceless, it is so adorable. it is amazing as is this response, i want to step out of the way as we pan around and take a look as we pan around,

you can see people packed in the street and there in front of us this is why, two bat cars, one for batman and one for bat kid and where are they? they are getting a bite to eat because they are exhausted. it has already when a been a busy morning and it is just beginning. it was a super morning as they rolled out, batman in one and bat kid in the other, the streets were jammed with masses all who wanted to see his dream come true, in he crowd his parents and a bus load of family and friends overwhelmed by it. >> i never dreamed it would be like this, but san francisco thank you, it is amazing. we are just from a small town up north and to have it explode like this is just really a blessing. >> back up, please. >> there is something about

this little boy that speaks to so many young and old, so many who simply want to see his wish come true. >> i think it will make him happy and make us happy too because he is happy. >> how cool is this wish? >> it is really awesome actually. >> the super hero made the city a little safer today, rescuing a damsel in distress from this cable car. >> it is for a great cause from make a wish, they are amazing. so we have 5-year-old miles who wants to be batman today so he is going to rescue me. >> a short time later he saved our city from the riddler, who tried to rob a vault in the financial district. it has been a busy morning but he has been a fighter, battling leukemia, battling it into remission and proving at age 5 there are heroes among us. >> he is a very shy boy but a very kindhearted boy and just has been so brave through all of this. he is a super hero, he has been

through a lot in his little years but he is really -- he is a hero, he is a super hero. >> reporter: back live out here at union square take a look at the folks looking through the windows, in the next half-hour we will look at them, there is going to be a flash mob and then lucille, he is going to get in trouble with the penguin and that will take him down to at&t park for another little rescue and then he will head to city hall where he is going to get a key to the city from the mayor, so still a lot ahead of him, still a lot to do but this has been incredible with people lined 6, 7, deep, just want to be a part of this little boy's dream, which is coming true, live in san francisco, which is now gotham city, ktvu channel 2 news. >> he has had a long day and

will need a nap. >> that is true. >> thank you. the penguin has been tweeting on that, hash tag that, he has been tweeting his rolla lowed kidnapping lucille, allowing him to come to the rescue as he was mentioning and get this, even president obama is following the story of miles the bat kid, his twitter account shows this retweet of the 5-year-old superstar off to save the city, great picture there, others tweeting include senator feinstein and gavin newsom and the support has been apparent all over the web. we found this picture showing a man holding up a sign expressing san francisco's love for bat kid. and the campbell police are having some fun with all of this, a few members of the force posted this picture and called miles their hero and wished the bat kid good luck today. for more go to ktvu.com, where you can find a live stream of bat kid's heroic

adventures today and a slide show, just go to our home page at ktvu.com. happening today the long wait is nearly over for highway 24 commuters, ktvu has learned the state fire marshal has signed off and approved the new caldecott tunnel for public use. today there is a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for 1:30 at the 4th bore. cal trans will be able to open the new bore after it restripes lanes leading into the tunnel. it marks the end of the project. the new bore is scheduled to open sometime this weekend, drivers there should expect delays during the final hours of the project. the final emergency drill took place early this morning in the new 4th bore, the california highway patrol tweeted this picture, the chp

and firefighters from those fire departments participated the drill wrapped up around 4:00 a.m., they simulated an accident where people had to be evacuated through the new emergency exits and as we told you the state fire marshal has signed off and approved the tunnel. the tentative agreement between bart's unions and management potentially could by on the fringe of falling apart. at issue the current contract includes a clause on paid family medical leave that bart says should not be in there. ktvu's brian flores is live in oakland with a special meeting and how riders are reacting. >> reporter: no question about that, we spoke with many riders who say they can't believe this contract is not a done deal yet, many are concerned another bart strike is on the horizon and even more baffled this issue wasn't seen earlier. it was supposed to be pretty much a done deal, the bart strike over, a tentative contract reached between bart's unions and management.

instead now a bit of a hold up. >> i hope they come to some type of resolution because there is a lot of other people suspecting -- suspecting thousands and millions of people a day so it is like i would hope they would be able to come to some type of agreement. >> at issue in the agreement is this clause talking about paid family leave, bart says family law states workers are allowed up to 12 weeks of unpaid family leave. this copy of the contract obtained through sources says eligible employees would receive six weeks of that time paid. but from what we heard from bart's management and the board is this was something that was never agreed to. >> it was a mistake and we need to work together in order to move forward. >> bart says this page may have inadvertently been added to a stack of other tentative agreements. the unions however say this was not a mistake and a signed agreement agreed to by all sides in august. the local president says she is baffled by all this but still

expects the board to eventually ratify the contract. >> you can't piecemeal stuff out after the fact. this was an agreement. it wasn't a mistake. >> this afternoon we learned the bart management will not recommend the board to reject the agreement but they want the board to know all the facts before it goes to a vote. >> so to add on this additional proposal the board will need to find the costs and the details and that is what is going to happen today. >> bart president has called on a special closed door session this afternoon at 3:30. bart says this is going to be meant as a fact-finding meeting to talk about the costs if the board were to approve this tentative agreement. the board is scheduled to vote on the tentative agreement next thursday. i do want to say there is a public comment session before this closed door meeting and many union members say they will be there to have their voice heard. brian flores, ktvu channel two news. >> new information on the attack of a homeless woman in san francisco. ktvu confirmed an hour a.

>> that an arrest has been made. video obtained by ktvu showed the woman being attacked by a man walking down the street. the san francisco chief of police confirmed this morning the man has been arrested and has made a full confession, we are gathering information on who the suspect is and will have a full update tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. santa clara sheriff's investigators are looking for the person who shot and killed a man outside of a taco reia. they heard shots there and they found them there, he had been shot at least once, he was dead at the scene, they would like

to mare from witnesses. >> it is a dead end road so if anyone knows anything or has seen anything we would like to know. >> so far there are no arrests and they have no suspects. now to our coverage of the typhoon haiyan, the government has raised the death toll to 3621, just days ago they announced it would be closer to 2500. they are hit hard by the storm, the red cross estimates there could be 22 thousand people missing. a candlelight vigil is held tonight for the survivors there. this is the wrong video, we should not be looking at this picture, it starts at 5:30 at union square and organized by a couple of groups including some of the storm victim's families here in the bay area. an emergency landing at san

jose international airport caught on cameras, what forced it to land and how the airport was already prepared for it. a beautifully sunny day around the bay area, mark tamayo will be here with your weekend forecast and when a chance for showers is reappearing in the forecast. and a teenager facing charges on a horrifying attack on that is back in court today, why his attorney says police acted unfairly.

the oak land teenager facing hate crime charges in the attack of a passenger a board a bus was back in court today, 16-year-old richard thomas did not enter a plea, his family was in the courtroom. he is charged as an adult and his attorney says police and prosecutors are acting unfairly and what happened was a childish prank that went terribly wrong, not a hate crime, he is accused of using a lighter to set the security of sasha fleischmann on fire, he is hospitalized with severe burns, thomas is set for appear in court often november 26th. at hercules high school a school fight on camera is now being investigated as a hate crime. officials say the fight on wednesday afternoon was between

three girls and a transgender student who reported being bullied before the fight. >> there is lots of hair pulling, hitting, slapping. it was a pretty bad fight. >> school district officials are interviewing the four students involved and say they could be suspended or expelled, hercules high officials say the school has an aggressive anti- bullying campaign and students are encouraged to seek out counselors in the health center. the santa clara county sheriff's office released a sketch of the person they say is responsible for a sexual assault at the college in cupertino, described as being in his early 20s, with shoulder length dark brown hair and a lot of acne on his chin, a student says she was raped in the bathroom of the media and learning center on the 4th, she said she believes he is a student named johnny. frightening moments this morning for passengers on board a plane that took off from san jose heading to dallas but the

plane had to turn around and make an emergency landing due to a bird strike. ktvu's janine de la vega tells us what passengers experienced on board and what the airport has in place to handle bird strikes. >> reporter: as this american airlines m.d.-80 made an emergency landing this morning many passengers breathed a sigh of level as it landed, several minutes prior those on board heard a loud noise. >> i heard a pop, seen a flash and the airplane slowed down a little bit. >> you could feel the engine was stopping so harrowing really. >> it departed heading to dallas but a bird struck the engine, the pilot immediately turned it around to land, fire trucks were waiting as a precaution but no one was injured. >> it is a huge concern for us, safety is our number one priority for aircraft operations. >> from january to july the faa

reports 46 bird strikes at the san jose bird strike and has a plan to discourage them from being at the airport, this is the time of the year that birds my great so since september they have been stepping up efforts and biologists have been deploying tactics, including shooting birds down and hazing. >> hazing is using sound makers. >> from january to october the airport has killed or relocated 138 birds, passengers say the pilot told them he trained for the situation but it was not routine. >> he sounded a little bit like it got to him a little bit but he was calm. >> once on the ground they had to wait in line to rebook but they were glad they were safe. >> congress is considering whether states should get a refund for keeping national parks open during last month's government shut down. six states used their own funds

to keep the parks open during the 16 day federal closure, california was not one of them, but the states that did re-open the park made the decision even though the u.s. parks service made clear at the time the feds would not pay for it. taxpayer watch dogs say the states should not expect to get money now. >> i am not saying the states were wrong, they actually got economic activity, benefit from it, but don't expect us to retro actively pay you for your decisions. >> the u.s. house and senate are considering bills to refund a total of 2 billion taxpayer dollars. crab season is now officially underway in the bay area, many crab fishermen set their crab pots yesterday and began bringing them in early this morning as soon as the season opened at midnight. this is the first season of the a new crab pot limit. there are 7 tiers they qualify for based on what they caught

between 20003 and 2008. the most they can throw out is about 500. >> across the entire bay area lots of sunshine here, temperatures have been cooling off and that trend will continue into the weekend. here is a live camera toward the south bay in san jose nothing but clear, that also -- that is also the story in our satellite right now. here you can see on the satellite the low clouds and fog are making a come back, basically offshore but most of the pay area in the clear, a few patches there and that is it. as far as current temperatures, santa rosa 65, san francisco downtown 59, san jose 63, and livermore last check reporting 62 degrees. looking out towards san francisco this afternoon for today sunshine and breezy, this is the union square camera, for tonight clear skies, cool out there and the weekend a sun- cloud mix and a dry weather pattern as well. in fact we will take a look at

our camera for today and the forecast in san francisco 2:00 this afternoon 62 degrees by 4:00 58, 58, then by 6:00 back down to right around 50 degrees later on as we do head into the evening hours by 5:00 and by 6:00. this area of low pressure dropping from the north so a breeze as winds picked up last night around the bay, winds were thinking today maybe around 20 to 25 miles an hour around the immediately shoreline, cooling trend, we are thinking 50s and 60s for today and right on into the weekend. we are still looking for the rainfall for the most part most of november has been dry for the most part. here is our next chance for showers, that would be on tuesday the 19th and into the 20th. here is the forecast model showing you the shower chance approaching the region close enough we do bring in that slight chance by tuesday afternoon, probably a better bet by tuesday night and also into wednesday morning. between now and then for this afternoon lots of 50s and 60s out there, santa rosa 68, san

francisco 62 and antioch in the upper 60s, these temperatures right about 3:00 this afternoon. those are your temperatures. here is your five-day- forecast with your weekend always in view, the afternoon highs here and with your weekend always in view, the weekend headlines shaping up like this, chilly mornings, temperatures 30s and 40s, the cooling will continue with partly to mostly sunny skies into the afternoon. no rain clouds but on tuesday we thicken up the cloud cover, there is a slight chance of the showers, especially in the north bay by the afternoon hours but probably a better bet for tuesday night and into wednesday but for today tory looking pretty good for bat kid to take care of business in san francisco no rain clouds to worry about today, lots of sunshine and temperatures actually cool to mild out there. >> so glad. >> yeah. >> very special. thank you. starting next week could it tower will be closed for renovations a sign is posted

warning them. beginning monday work will begin and when it is finished new vendors will be added and should be done by april. new rendering of an impressive staircase at the museum of art. plus google agrees to a 400 million dollar deal to acquire solar farms in california.

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