intention of kidnapping a child. on friday night he spotted a mother and daughter loading groceries into their car. >> saw them in the parking lot. the mother made a very, very obvious effort of turning while she was loading the groceries of turning and looking right at me. for not just glancing at me. she looked right at me as if she was signifying to me like she were a part of this. >> reporter: that was a cue for you to take her daughter. >> to at least follow them and see what would happen. >> reporter: douglas followed them and abducted. >> i was like why am i doing this. why do these people need to see this from me. i knew why i was doing it. i was doing it as a plea. >> reporter: did you hurt that little girl? >> i didn't hurt her. no. >> reporter: he appeared to show some remorse. >> can you understand why they were so scared. >> i certainly can. i have a son. i have a son of my own. i can imagine. i can certainly imagine. sir, absolutely. you have to appreciate how

desperate i am. i'm sorry. >> reporter: now i asked douglas if he's ever been treated for mental illness or diagnosed with a mental illness he says no. but we're hoping to learn more tomorrow when the district attorney's office is expected to file charges against him. allie rasmus. now to breaking news in the east bay where within the last hour health officials have confirmed that a 48-year-old woman has died from the h 1n1 virus. the contra costa health department says the woman died within the last seven days. she's the first flu related death in the country this flu season. in the santa clara county they declaired the first death there. it was a 47-year-old woman who also contracted the h1n1 virus.

a robber wears a disguise that has investigators baffled as to whether it's a man or woman they're looking for. ktvu covered the story this afternoon. robert handa has more on the unusual obstacles police are going up against here. >> reporter: this comerica bank was robbed yesterday. investigators have been releasing many pictures of the suspect and they tell why police are asking for your help. the armed robber has been caught on camera at five banks targeted during the past two months all in the late morning or afternoon hours. >> it's scary. so i will be scared coming here late in the morning. while is surveillance camera images are clear, police are not sure if the suspect is a man or woman.

investigators describe the system as black, 5'4", to 5'7", speaking with a feminine voice. >> some investigators tell us they believe it's a male dressed as a female. others tell us they think it's a female. >> reporter: the robberies started on november 9th at a wells fargo bank in milpitas. then in san jose and a different comerica bank and a bank in milpitas yesterday. >> it doesn't mean that because she's focusing on milpitas and san jose that she's from the area. she may be using this to throw us off. >> reporter: for customers we talked to it doesn't matter if they're male or female.

>> every robbery is unsafe. >> reporter: that's what police say as well. an $11,000 reward is now being offered. coming up at 6:00, more on the robbers disguise and how customers reacted when they saw the surveillance pictures themselvesless. robert handa, ktvu news. a chinese national accused of setting fire to the chinese consulate in san francisco made his first court appearance today. prosecutors say 39-year-old yan phang admitted to a dispatcher in a 911 call that he lit gasoline at the door of the consulate on new year's day. he told them he was hearing voices in chi that he has and believed the consulate was involved. his neighbors -- hearing voices in chinese and believed that the consulate was involved. his neighbors were surprised. >> i would have never thought of anything like this from him or his family. i feel bad for the family. >> reporter: the judge has appointed a public defender to

represent phang. new developments now concerning is growing over drought here in california. today that concern has reached the state capital. get ready for the dreaded d. word. the california department of water resources says in the next few weeks, governor jerry brown will likely declare a drought. tonight we have team coverage for you of today's developments our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking the water levels but first we go live to ktvu's's 's -- ktvu's john fowler, with more on these drought conditions. >> reporter: some already using less. >> i'm very concerned, i'm being very conservative with my water. >> reporter: hans put in her rock yard 37 years ago, at the last drought. lead forecaster january null says in recorded bay area history it's never been drier than right now.

>> also the driest in los angeles since back in the 1860s. i mean this is unprecedented territory. >> reporter: null says last three years have been below normal. >> there's going to be issues regarding water management. >> reporter: mother nature is not cooperating. >> reporter: it's fast becoming critical. state officials may further cut water allocations to 300,000 acres of farmland. including 1,000 farms just south of the bay area. >> millions of residents from the bay area to southern california are facing water supply restrictions. >> reporter: and $11 billion water system bond measure twice before defeated in the legislature may get on the ballot this november. supporters say we need to update the state's 50-year-old water systems. environmentalists say wetlands and fish need protection. even if we get drought saving

fabulous february or miracle mark this year, everyone says without big changes, we could see our problems continue. reporting live in fremont, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. in the city of willis in the central part of the country the city manager tells ktvu if it doesn't rain in the next 500 days they'll be out of water. our chief meteorologist bill martin has been keeping a very close eye on forecast. >> what are you seeing? >> not a lot. take a look at it now. we had some rain in december on the sixth. moving to january, it's been dry so far. as we go to the eighth continued dry and on the ninth i'll talk about that later there's a slight chance but very dry. what does it mean for percents of average. the north bay you have 14% of average so far.

2.02-inches. 21% of average in san francisco and 28% of average in san jose. to put it into perspective last year was a pretty dry year. to this point last year we had 135% of average in these locations. so way ahead of rainfall last year at this time. right now we are way way behind as john fowler points out. 1976 is the last time we were even close to this dry. new at 5:00, word tonight of hundreds of possible lay offs about to happen at hospitals all across the bay area. sutter health has confirmed to us they plan to lay off more than 350 workers this month. ktvu's tom vacar in oakland tonight with what he's learned, tom. >> reporter: well if the health care industry is indeed booming these lay offs seem odd indeed. >> we are running short of nurses every night. the moral is very, very bad right now. >> reporter: regardless of the nurses protests, sutter health says to right itself financially it will eliminate

358 full and part time positions. caroline kemprod, i do not know how many people will leave. we are retraining employees to fill critical vacancies. nurses are angry. >> less staff means more work for everyone. to say nothing of the fact that the threat of lay off or the threat of having to work way more hours than we're used to working under very stressful conditions with not only less nurses but less staff. >> to have the lay offs or to say you're going to have lay offs is outrageous. because you can't even staff with the nurses you have to provide adequate care now. >> reporter: the hospital says more changes are coming in the next few years. >> i think the message there are pretty clear. this is a multi year process don't get too comfortable. >> reporter: odd in an

improving economy and with new improving care patients soon to come online. reporting live, tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. the attorney for a 13-year- old girl who's brain dead says she's receiving new antibiotics. the family of jahi mcmath still has not said where they've moved her to only that she is being cared for in a facility some where in the u.s. the girl is receiving potassium and antibiotics and hopes she can be given a breathing tube. doctors declared the girl dead almost a month ago. news from the united kingdom where a u.s. air force helicopter crashed off the coast of england. it's believed all four people on board has died. the fate of the crew remains unknown. witnesses say the helicopter was flying extremely low before

impact. at this point the cause of the crash is still unclear. the u.s. coast guard is coordinating the search for a crew member who went over board last night on a cruise ship traveling from san francisco to hawaii. the search is being conducted about 1,000 miles north of oahu and involving two cruise ships, a cargo ship and coast guard helicopter. this is video of the ship involved the grand princess getting ready for its voyage. surveillance video shows the men jumping off the ship. he's a 34-year-old fili pix no national. authorities have not yet released his name. 49er faithful versus seahawks. but this rivalry has gone well beyond football. >> pretty crazy. >> the competition outpouring support for sick children. a new protecting transgender students in schools. and how the new protections may

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country and everybody is bundling up. >> you can't even walk in this. you can't do nothing. i'm ready for the summertime. >> reporter: there are dangerous road conditions in chicago. check out this car on the left side of your screen spinning out of control because of the icy roads. crews have been clearing roads and applying salt following this weekend's snowstorm but because the weekend's temperature is below zero that melted snow is quickly turning to ice. indianapolis blanketed in white and all those on the stanton island ferry could not wait to get inside. >> it was painful. i feel like my fingers are going to crack and burst into a million pieces. >> reporter: it was a mess in detroit with cars caught in fender benders. seems like the only safe place is at home. >> as soon as i get home from work i am going to make sure i bundle up inside and get there. >> reporter: texas ranchers too

are worried. their livestock is at stake. this is the worse they've ever seen. it's so cold in kentucky this escaped inmate turned himself in. sunday robert vick escapeed from a minimum security facility. it was too cold for him to handle so he walked in and asked a clerk to call police which gladly took him back. >> and flights separated hundreds of passengers from their bags. ktvu's noelle walker back at sfo. what happened here? how did all those bags get lost? >> reporter: there are a lot of people who want to know the answer to those questions. the airlines are just trying to play catch up to get people to their final destinations. but as you can see they don't always travel together. the baggage claim at san francisco international is more of a lost and found.

the emphasis on lost. >> they were supposed to leave our luggage on monday in the morning. but it's tuesday and we don't have it. >> reporter: hundreds of bags are stuck wherever the airlines can find room. it has not been this bad since -- >> never since i've been here. >> you look tired. >> reporter: long >> reporter: long week. >> long week. >> reporter: it started monday. >> we're lucky. we were lucky to get to chicago this morning when we did. >> reporter: at sfo baggage claim, there is luggage luggage everywhere. and none of it claire's. >> we showered but no clean clothes to wear. so we're waiting for our bags here now. >> reporter: over an empty carusel frustration and hope

reign eternal. >> that it's gotten stuck perhaps. there's hope. >> reporter: there's still cancellations across the country. 19 at san francisco international, 12 at oakland and two in san jose. reporting live at sfo, noelle walker. more than 500 amtrak passengers have finally arrived in chicago after their trains were stranded over night die to all the snow. the trains from los angeles, quincy illinois and the bay area were disabled about 80 miles from chicago yesterday because of all the snow on the tracks. passengers say it wasn't that bad they were kept warm on the trains while crews worked to clear the tracks. >> the crew was awesome. i just feel like somebody could have maybe figured out that this is really bad weather. we should maybe check the tracks before the train has to come through or something. >> reporter: amtrak has cancelled nearly two dozen trains to illinois because of the weather. crews spent the day clearing the track and amtrak hopes to resume operations tomorrow.

on ktvu.com our web team has posted a slide show of conditions across the country. we've been showing you this nasty weather around the country. but let's go to chief meteorologist bill martin, and bill kind of steady as it goes. >> we need the rain. we talked about the governor declaring a drought and coming in here into the state of california it's been very dry. unprecedented really as john fowler talked about as well. as we look at the satellite imagine. what i pick up on is wasted opportunity. because you see all this moisture, this is all trapped. if it could get pulled in it would bring us significant rainfall. but the jet stream is way to the north and it's not going to connect with this. typically that's what happen this is time of year. those things phase up. just caught up in the polar storms and the rain comes through. but this year that has not happened. temperatures today were about where they were yesterday. a little cooler. we had clouds, we had sun. we had a little bit of

everything. and then as you look at the winds they've changed direction. they were coming more offshore the last weeks. now they are starting to come on shore. things are changing right. those are the clouds coming in today on shore concord. winds are flowing from action to land. then offshore you know this. the winds are blowing offshore. these winds are coming out of a more westerly direction. that means there's a change in the weather. we're going to see that coming up here. tomorrow partly cloudy -- or tonight partly cloudy. tomorrow sun with clouds and in the extended. there's a chance of a sprinkle. so as you see this first kind of system go through tomorrow. that just tweaks temperatures down a degree or two. this next system has a little more push. and that brings us that slight chance of a sprinkle north of the bay area. we could see some tkreuz -- drizzle in a place like luxburg. but for the most part it's a noon event. so the computer model does

this. here we are at 5:00 tomorrow -- right now. here we go into tomorrow morning there's the clouds. and the fog is at the coast too. coastal fog has come back. and that coastal fog already here tomorrow morning. wednesday night. here come that is chance of rain thursday morning. where is it? there it is. and then thursday afternoon. clears out. then everything stays north again. it's that. that's just a weak weak system. that is not going to do what we need it to do. the forecast as we go into the next couple of days the five day forecast shows more clouds, here is your am chance here. and then after that, the clouds keep coming. again like i said these are the clouds that would be bringing us rain if they were attached to the jet stream. they are kind of attached to the jet stream but the main flow of the jet stream. the jet stream is staying way north. the jet stream staying way south and we're just caught in the middle with a dry pattern. we're back into the low 60s. >> really? >> yeah. >> it's so cold. in the east they're getting tons of snow and we're getting

nothing. >> san francisco records go back to the gold rush. in this state it's very unusual. up north firefighters is making progress in the wildfire. among those on the job are 16 members of the marin strike team. the fire started saturday. calfire says it is now 65% contained. full containment is expected on thursday. this area is usually too wet. new developments on capitol hill over expired unemployment benefits. the vote that took place today. >> now to julie haener in our newsroom with what we're working on for 6:00. >> the story sparked outbreak. the missing patient that was found dead at the hospital where she disappeared. now2 investigate it is transcripting revealing misstepped and finger point.

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check than the pride of having a job. >> president obama today surrounded himself with unemployed people who would be affected by the legislation. republicans say they are willing to extend the benefits but only if congress makes cuts elsewhere in the federal budget to offset the 6-1/2 billion dollars cost. >> and let's find a way to pay for these ui benefits so we're not adding to an already completely unsustainable debt. if the senate passes the bill there's no guarantee the house will even take it up in its current form. that's because house speaker john boehner has said he wants the bill to contain long term solutions to put people back to work. authorities in new york city today charged more than 100 former city employees with disability fraud. they paraded many of those arrested before a tv camera this morning. the 102 defendants are accused of faking mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder. 72 of the accused are former

police officers. eight are former firefighters. many of them claim their disability stemmed from the september 11 attacks. prosecutors say each collected 30,000 to $50,000 a year illegally. today los angeles county sheriff lee bacca planned to retire. he has served as sheriff since 1978. kids are heading back to school and noticing a change in their bathrooms. >> reporter: students are now allowed to choose their restroom. later what started as a

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it's a major change in california schools thanks to a new law. students can now use a restroom that matches their gender. >> and paul chambers joins us with how it's been implemented. >> reporter: some people may be surprised that a person as liberal as berkeley did not have a way to protect students until last year. but now they say they never plan on changing. >> for me it's just good to know that everyone in california now can use whichever bathroom they want to. >> reporter: as of january 1st, all public schools in california are requires to allow transgender students to use the bathroom based on gender identity. >> why are we even having this

conversation. this seems like something that should be obvious to everybody. >> because it was such a traumatic and anxiety inducing experience they just had to leave campus to go some where that was less so. >> reporter: the choice of using bathrooms may be short- lived. the conservative group has until tomorrow to collect enough signatures. but until then students here say it's not a big deal. >> you know the person, they're just like everyone else. >> i feel like i wouldn't even be aware of who was transgender or not. it's not like i go looking or noticing. >> most of the time if i tell someone that i'm trans, they had no idea. >> reporter: now he came out as transgender two years ago and said that it was never an

issue. now i've tried to contact the conservative group but i have not heard back from them. seems the city of richmond may have turned the corner. they no longer deserve the long- standing reputation as one of the nation's most dangerous. the police department issued a report that shows it as a 32 year low. last year 16 people were killed. that's the lowest number since 1980. richmond has not seen more than 36 homicides since 2009. that's encouraging news for residents and business owners. including the man who runs pasquals. >> now i know that it's not what we hear it's way different here now. it's way cleaner. >> he's now thinking about expanding his coffee shop to other parts of richmond. police now credit the reduction

on hiring more officers and programs. the success winning the chief praise and what he still sees as a challenge, that's tonight at 10:00. the parents of 13-year-old andy lopez are making new accusations against the sheriff deputy who shot and killed their son. they amended their federal lawsuit today. the suit allegations that the deputy has several accusations of using excessive force. another in which he pointed his gun at a woman and her child during a neighborhood argument. deputy gailhouse shot and killed lopez. lopez was carrying a bb gun that looked just like an ak47. the deputy says lopez appeared to turn and raise the weapon as if he appeared to shoot it and that's why he -- the deputy

says he was shot. police say nakano had stepped out of his jeep after a crash and was shot during an argument with two men. a bit of drama today at the consumer electronic show in las vegas when at&t kicked out the ceo of team mobile from an at&t party. the executive was apparently an uninvited guest but the incident seems to highlight tension between the two companies. the big focus is on gadgets such as this new version of a segway called in motion. the shiny wireless byte, and a new photo from cannon that takes a video of you as you record video of something else. and apple announced that it's dropping the mcafee name. rebranding the software is a

way to distance itself from distancing itself from maker of mcafe. mcaffe told the acc he is elated about the name change. do you know what happens to trash after it is picked up. it is an interesting journey that ends at a power plant in the central valley. >> reporter: christmas trees are coming in so fast and furious here at recology's center that one mound is now in two places. >> we had a 5% increase last year. we're seeing an awful lot of trees out in the streets last year. >> reporter: in all 300 recycled truckloads will come

here. at receiving trees knocked off the tree stands and the trees are put in gigantic mound. here, they feed the trees into a grinder. the grinder produces an almost never ending cascade of material that goes into a giant hopper the semi trucks answer. each truck is loaded with 20- tons of material. this is what's left of the christmas tree. it's an excellent fuel and that's exactly what it is for a power plant in the central valley. recology says the acidic oil rich pine is better suited for energy than as ground cover or compost. >> they don't compost well but they're good for energy production. >> reporter: by the middle of the month when the trees are all gone, 22 semi truckloads of this energy concentrated

material would have been sent to the generating station. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. niners fans and seahawks fans turning a rivalry into a way to the help children. >> pretty crazy but awesome. >> how it all start with a billboard. we brought it to you as breaking news earlier in this newscast. another death from the flu here in the bay area. now we are looking at how schools are dealing with the flu season now that kids are back from break. caught on camera. a fiery crash at a gas station that sends a worker flying. what this driver says that happened.

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in centennial colorado students returned to class at arapaho high school today following that deadly shooting on december 13th. they had only been back once before to pick up some of their things. this time they arrived to find notes on their lockers with words of encouragement. >> we're all a little bit nervous but we all also understand that we're all in it together. and the best way to heal from it is to be together and get back to normal.

>> reporter: the gunman was 18- year-old carl pierson he shot and killed his 17-year-old classmate claire davis then committed suicide. authorities say they believe his intended targets were a debate coach who has disciplined him and a school librarian. jerry sandusky wants his pension back. the former penn state assistant coach lost it when he was convicted of sexual abuse. if his pension were to be restored sandusky would receive $5,000 a month. amazing video here in this next story, a gas station worker is expected to be all right after a horrifying crash that was caught on video by a surveillance camera. take a look here. it's an 83-year-old driver behind the wheel and says he accidently hit the accelerate instead of the break. the gas station worker was sent flying into the air but amazingly that man was not seriously hurt. >> wow. turning a friendly rivalry into a good cause. >> the 49ers and seahawks could meet in the nfc championship game. how their rivalry is helping children right here in san

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home burglary. the break-in happened last friday afternoon at a home on cipriani boulevard. take a look at the left hand side of your screen. the two men break-in and seem to ignore a barking dog. the two men are thought to be connected to a similar burglary earlier this week. both sides are using their intense rivalry to help children. if the 49ers win this weekend they'll be in the nfc championship game and they could face the seahawks. john sasaki tell us a lot of fans are putting aside their rivalry to do something important. >> reporter: 18 -month-old flynn butler is at children's hospital with a serious intestinal ailment. >> he's doing wonder. -- doing wonderful. he's almost all of his iv. >> reporter: his father is a fan of the 49ers which gives

him another reason to cheer. >> it's pretty crazy. but it's great that the players would do this for the children. >> we want this to have that impact. help make some kids lives a little better. >> reporter: it started when seahawks fans flew a banner over the game at candle stick and continued as niner fans paid for a tongue and cheek banner. the extra $4,000 raised for the billboard was donated to seattle hospital. so seattle fans donated money to benefit both hospitals. >> from an anonymous 49ers fans who have agreed to donate up to $100,000 to both hospitals, meaning up to 100,000 of their own money. >> reporter: ucsf is building a new hospital and the money raised will help pay for programs. >> we have a dog therapy program.

this money is really to help augment those services for kids. >> reporter: so for children here a 49er loss won't be quite so bad. in san francisco i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. and a reminder here you can win the niners-panthers game on sunday right here. our coverage will begin at 8:30 with a live pregame show from north carolina. we're calling it a road trip to a championship. fox sports coverage begins at 9:00. following the game as always the point after with our sports director mark ibianez. dennis rodman defended his trip to north korea in a pretty explosive tv interview. >> i don't give [ bleep ], i don't give a [ bleep ] what you think. i'm standing here. look at these guys here. >> reporter: rodman told cnn that his trip to north korea could quote open doors and called it a great idea for the

world. but you can see here rodman became agitated when the interviewer asked whether rodman would ask north korean leaders about kenneth bay. among the players who accompanied rodman is cliff robinson who used to play for the warriors. >> let's go back to the weather. the headline here bill still no rain. >> still no rain. and temperatures above average with plenty of sunshine. we have fog returning to the coast now. we've seen patchy coastal fog. tomorrow morning we will see coastal fog and valley fog. so that's something new to the mix. we haven't been seeing a lot of. mid-60s and low 60s today. these numbers well above the average. one of the low spots livermore 66. 63 in downtown san jose. temperatures tomorrow with lots of cloud cover will be about the same and a little bit cooler. you see all the moisture. i mentioned this to you earlier this is great stuff it's just not linking up with the dynamics that we have up here. if these two guys could join up we would be set. we're seeing this split keeping

the moisture to the south or even over us. but the strongest dynamics well to the north of us. 53 in napa, 55 in antioch. these are the right now temperatures. temperatures are shifting around. that's what's giving us the coastal fog. concord seven-miles-an-hour out of the west. and then you take a look at these winds at half-moon bay and hayward. the difference here is, these are the winds that will clear up the atmosphere. these aren't the spare the air winds. the other winds we're getting the westerly winds we're getting spare the air after spare the air after spare the air. these patterns we're not going the see that. this system tweaks like tomorrow. the system gets closer the one i showed you and it's going to bring clouds and maybe a few sprinkles. right now the model is pretty weak on the precipitation chances. tuesday at 5:00 here we are. here we go. this is the valley fog right. and there's the coastal fog so that's interesting. as the wind shift had the

created that environment. then here we go into wednesday evening, clouds. something new. and then here we are into thursday morning. that's it. and then a few kind of sprinkles kind of, that's it. so thursday morning, thursday midday a few chances for a sprinkle and then things clear up. not what we need. the forecast high is for tomorrow. we have lots of 50s or mid-60s, low 60s. 64 in livermore. 63 in pleasanton. the four day forecast with the am chance on thursday. which is again i showedded -- showed you the percentages of rainfall are 5%. we need more than a few sprinkles to get out of this. to get some traction. that's what i'm looking for. look at the long range model. i look at a string of storms. don't see a string of storms not for the month of january. it's definitely something to be worried about. >> thursday won't even make a dent. >> no. >> thank you, bill. divers in hawaii look at

this. they got a rare close up look at a whale. the whale hung around for about two hours and did not seem to be bothered by humans near by at all. people usually see hump back whales but rarely a whale shark. a warning tonight for children now back in school after the holidays. >> to be sure that you are washing your hands. >> what else officials are doing as flu season reaches its peak. back now to julie haener in the newsroom with more on what we're working on for 6:00. >> a school nurse is being credited for saving a young girl's life. >> i just felt that i'm so glad she started breathing. >> the quick thinking that may have prevented a tragic outcome. >> the disappearance and death of a hospital patient. the documents 2 investigates has obtained that has outraged the victim's family. >> these stories and more coming up next at 6:00. mom...

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a gas leak at an elementary school in hayward caused a brief evacuation in morning. firefighters responded to the leak at colonial acres elementary just after 8:00 this morning and called pg & e. parents arriving with their kids were told to stay away from classrooms and evacuate the area. it didn't take long for pg & e crews to cap the leak. however one parent told us that the smell of gas has been an issue for about six months.

>> i smelled the gas. it's just a problem that i think is being happening in the past. with you know parents have complained about it and it seems like it keeps going. >> reporter: the evacuation lasted for about 45 minutes, we spoke to a district official who said he had not received any reports of a problem. and that they planned to evaluate further. students return to class just in the height of the flu season. railroad -- >> reporter: as kids came back from holiday break, they reunited with friends and given a reminder. they don't want germs spreading so hand sanitizers are used and the principal starting the day with this message. >> we're entering the cold and flu season so i want to remind people to be sure you're washing your hands.

clean hands, extremely important. >> reporter: public health officials say the stream of flu circulating is h1n1 known as the swine flu. the pandemic that struck back in 2009. a local resident nurse says she's already noticing a spike in the illness. >> we're getting a lot of calls. with the cough and cold, you know adults cough and cold, children with cough and cold and flu. >> reporter: last week health officials reported that a 41- year-old woman was the first to die of h1n1 in santa clara county this season. people most at risk are children and the elderly. they're urging people to get vaccinated now. >> it's already the new year and i haven't taken all the kids in my family to go. so but i still would like to get that done. >> reporter: the principal here says he finds that parents still send their children to school when they're sick but now is the not the time to do it because of the chances of the virus spreading.

in san jose, janine dela vega. marketers for sensa, hcg diet direct and lean spa must pay $35 million to the fcc. that money will then be available to consumers who brought the product. >> the chances of being successful at weight loss just by sprinkling something on your food or rubbing something on your body are slim to none. >> a lawyer in missouri has lost his investigation and plans to hold a congressional hearing in the next few months. target has pulled an online ad after it caused an uproar. the add showed a skinny pregnant model wearing a dress made for a plus sized woman. the store apologized and said the mistake was the result of a labeling error and took down the imagine.

this isn't the first controversy with target's plus sized clothing line. last year target came under fire for naming the color of one of its plus sized dresses manatee gray. now at 6:00, 2 investigates, documents we've obtained raising new questions about a hospital search for a missing patient who was found dead in a stairwell two weeks after she disappeared. >> i was shaking in fright. she was shaking in fright. she looked at me and said i'm scared. i looked at her and said i'm scared. >> reporter: a kidnapping suspect talks about the bizarre things he was thinking just before he took a little girl from her mom. we'll tell you about the frightening moments that a nurse took to save a student's life. lin spalding disappear from her hospital room at san

francisco general and was found dead in a stairwell seven months later. ktvu is unveiling documents which detail what went wrong. good evening i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. who was to blame and who did not do their job. you may be surprised by the response of those involved in the search for that missing woman. 2 investigates tonight, david stevenson has poured over the reports from the hospital and tell us how staffing issues involving sheriff deputies may have hurt that search. >> reporter: we obtained these documents. names are retacted but they're raising new questions about the thoroughness and attitude of those involved in the search for lin spalding. almost immediately after she disappeared from her san francisco general hospital room the search for