>> you should be ashamed of yourself and you left a son without a father now, it is not fair. >> now at noon a family in san jose speaks out after a young father is gunned down in his car on his way home from work, the relative who made the gruesome discovery and the key pieces of evidence san jose police are new reviewing. people in san francisco, one neighborhood, say it is becoming a growing problem. >> could not even get out of my car, there were three rats

outside about this big. >> what city officials say they are doing about the problem. plus a major shake up e s in the on campus dorm staff at the school university, what the school says is behind more than a dozen firings and resignations. >> complete news coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at noon. >> good afternoon, i am tori campbell a-young father on his way home from work in san jose this morning shot to death in his car. janine de la vega just spoke to the family and police and joins us live to let us know what they are saying. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, the coroner was removed the body and now the focus is on tracking down the killer, the family thinkless thinks he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

>> his family was mourning as they found out he was shot on his way home from work, he was about a block from home. >> he was happy, he was on his way home from work when this happened, i don't understand it all. it doesn't make sense. >> they say he was on his way home from work andhis wife began missing him from work and she was the one that found him. >> it appears he was shot and then the car continue moving and he hit another car and that

is where they found him. >> some neighbors heard shots. >> my wife woke me up and said she heard gunshots and wanted she to see what was going on, she said it was about 5 shots and i heard one and it sounded like that to me. >> police are still searching for suspects and the family has this message for the killer. >> you should be ashamed of yourself, you killed a husband and a father. >> police are still investigating and we will have more for you in our later

newscasts, back to you. >> police are searching for a man who shot that woman there. they don't now what happened but they are still searching. and happening right now crews are evacuating people so they can continue the street project. they resulted a gas line and had to evacuate them. and they will continue their work this afternoon. this afternoon we are getting details about the shooting at a military base, 4 people are dead including the suspected gunman, and others are hurt. he talks about what we learned

about the gunman. >> he served overseas, he did not see combat but drove that truck and we are learning more bought that. according to police he opened fire on them at the base where he was receiving treatment and they said he was confronted by base police and killed himself. >> he got in the vehicle and fired shots and got out of the vehicle and fired shots and was confronted by our people and shot himself. >> he was being treated but did

not seem unusual. >> he was being treatedfor post stress depression and there were no unusual problems. >> neighbors said they didn't notice anything. >> just the same as always, going back and forth. >> and the shooting brought back memories of the shooting here in 2009 when nadal nassan killed 32 people and shot others. he was tried later this year and was found guilty. >> we will have more for this

in our later newscasts. >> and police are looking for a sexual predator, police are searching this video for clues and you can see that, right now, if you know anything you are urged to call the fbi. vote now the former school board member keith jackson is waiting to hear if he has been granted bail. he is accused in the charges against leland gee on those charges and he also faces other charges. meanwhile city hall is on alert because of the corruption

charges between them and are expecting trouble. police are expecting trouble after the arrests of leland yee and him. >> there could by trouble now as people try to take over. >> they credit people in in keeping the gangs from taking over and also credit trust. >> they are cracking down on drivers engaged in texting and other activities behind the wheel. we have this report from sal castaneda on and accident this morning caused by distracted driving. good morning, sal. >> reporter: good morning, tory. police say it is one of our biggest problems, people have

accidents because they are taking their eyes off the road because they are talking on their cell phone. april is national safety awareness month sponsors by the national highway traffic safety administration and a witness said the driver involved in the crash this morning was talking on her cell phone. >> the driver was using her cell phone and subsequently lost control of her vehicle and it ended up on its roof. >> the national highway safety

transportation commission says people die every year because they are distracted by talking on their cell phones and others say they like it so it is a big national problem. >> yeah, i have seen that all the time. >> yeah, i know they do it. >> yeah, i see it all the time while i am out, on the road, so definitely distracted yeah. >> and it is not uncommon to see people driving at full freeway speed on any freeway using a cell phone just like this. police say it you do not have to have a cell phone to be distracted, people talking to you and looking at things off the road and police say i is

good to stay focused while you are driving on the highway through traffic. i am sal castaneda, back to you. >> they are still searching for bodies in oso, where the mudslide was caused by the flooding there, and they will keep searching. weather is expected to be a problem later. >> we also have a report bought a rat infestation there and what the city is doing about it. >> i could not get out of my car, three rats there about

that big. >> and we have more about what they are going to do about that. >> and we have more on the story about the firing of staff and those people there, what is behind the firing of more than a dozen staff and employees there. we will have that story for you after the break.

police in san leandro are still searching for two men responsible for a streeting home invasion.

it happened yesterday around 2:20 in the afternoon at a home on donovan's road, the victim said two men forced their way into his home, blindfolded him, pepper sprayed him and ransacked his home, the victim was snot seriously hurt and was able to free himself and call for help, no word on what was stolen. today two gang members are due in a courtroom in an unusual homicide case, they are among 5 facing murder charges even though prosecutedders admit that none of them did the stabbing. it stemmed from an incident at a park where a homeless man stabbed a man to death in a case later ruled self defense and now the prosecutedders are holding the gang mens responsible for his death.

>> it is a complicated law but ultimately in california when you are responsible for someone dying, that is where we draw the line. >> police arrested him for killing clark but later released him after agreeing he acted in self-defense. later today they will hold their 5th public meeting on the scandals there, the meetings are in response to a racist bullying charge, they say students tormented a student there for weeks. they found out about that later. we have found out about this as they are having a shake up on

campus staff and facilities and have fired more than a dozen people and said they are not linked to the hate crime allegations. some business owners in san francisco say they are under siege by rats, they say the problem started when the city began construction on the new central subway, as we report it began in one section of the city and is now popping up in other spots. >> they will often be seen or heard. >> you will hear something and say what the heck was that. >> people who are here sea say

the problem spiked when the city began construction on that. >> they are there when the city began working on that. >> she said she had a confrontation with them. >> they were right outside my car, three of them, about this big and we were scared to get out of the car. me and my mother and sister were screaming and yelling and they were laughing at us but we were afraid.

>> yeah normally you can scare them away but these are not afraid. >> and they say we have a problem but the have been working on it. >> yeah, it is bad. >> and still she said they are working on the problem but it is not like that. >> yeah, we are aware of the problem and working on it. >> she said one suggestion is to not feed the pigeons, because the rats leave the food left be hind. >> we have update on this story we began about an hour ago. they are cutting the steel trusts at the center before dismantling it and using a 3-d

construction of the model to safely remove those cant can'ti levered pieces. >> and now, here is our forecast. >> well, we started out cool but we are warming up quickly and we will have that tomorrow though, and we are warming up, 60s, again we started out chilly but that is looking good and again 80 degrees, that will be there, and those are popping up, not sure about that but 64 there and that i believe and wild country and you can see

why, when you get 80s from the deep south and 30s and 40s to the north that is a collision of air masses so we have had snow coming out of denver and this system will work its way there and cause fits but it is more in the way of rain but it has severe weather all there and they are keeping an eye out for tornado bands coming route of dallas and scooting across oklahoma so the severe season is definitely kicking off in a big way here, for us though off to a mild start as this system comes through, this guy shows

weakening. i would not cancel any plans for tomorrow because they will probably do that, and so 60s in those areas and tomorrow pushing 60 degrees, and then we have a chance of drizzle, i don't think there is nothing to it and then saturday and sunday 70s and men monday -- there it is tory. >> -- winter like to summer like. >> in one week. >> yeah. >> thanks, steve. now the leader on the newest postage stamp, more on that and who is it. and they are trying to protect them from scammers. more on that in just a minute.

stocks are lower on afternoon trading on wall street as traders await tomorrow's big monthly job report, declines were led by healthcare stocks but barnes and noble is down over 13.5% after libtd media said it was cutting its stake in the company, now the dow started the morning just three points from its record high, right now down 19, the nasdaq getting a big hit, down 50 and the s&p which started at another record high this morning is currently down another. yahoo says it is adding an extra layer of protection after reports it snooped into the private on-line activity of its users, yahoo says it will not

encrypt all data from one search observer to another one and also doing that, they warn people not to do that. they are warning people about scammers trying to get their money from the accounts. they took a lot more money than is in those accounts, they are calling for people to watch their accounts there. the launch for him has finally come full circle now.

the stamp honoring harvey milk will be released this week. he was the first openly gay city councilman in the united states, and was killed then. and we will have more on that later. also we are following that story and will have an update for you at 5:00. thank you for making ktvu channel 2 your choice for news at noon. we will have more on our news cast at 5:00 and remember we are always on 24-7 for news, traffic and weather updates on ktvu.com thanks for watching and have a great day. send comments to comments@captioncolorado.com

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