surveillance video of a store clerk taking matters into his own hands when confronted by a man with a gun. what he says about his split- 2nd decision to grab the weapon. east bay shoppers on edge. 8 people forced to jump after their boat goes up in flames. how another boater came to their aid on san francisco bay. complete bay area news coverage starts right now.

this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. evening i'm ken wayne. a criminal in the east bay caught at his own game. he was chased out of the convenience store by the clerk he was trying to rob. christina, what's the clerk saying about all of this? >> reporter: well, he says looking back it may not have been the smartest thing to do, but he was just reacting to a gun being turned on him. an armad robber at this 711 friday night was chased out of a store without any money. one of them is named mark. >> i saw a guy coming around the corner. i thought he was going to go use the sink. when i saw him pass up the sink, i turned and that's when i saw the gun. >> reporter: mark gets

confronted behind the counter. he made a split decision to fight back. >> i saw the opportunity and grabbed it from bothens and yanked it out of his hands. >> reporter: you can see he's now the one holding the gun. >> i was a little nervous at first. then adrenaline kicks in. >> it's a high caliber small handgun. >> reporter: investigators later determined the gun was unloaded, but the brave clerk didn't know that at the time. this. is not something that we advocate that the regular person does. it's extremely dangerous, but in this case it worked out. >> reporter: with several cameras around the store, investigators are using surveillance to track the suspect. >> when you look back on it, it's like i'm a family man. i gotta think about my family. >> reporter: for him, it was just another day on the job.

a job he's only had for three months. >> some people say hero. some people say brave. others say stupid. it's a little bit of all three. i don't know if it was the right thing, but it got a gun off the street. >> reporter: police believe this guy may be from out of town. take a look at the clothes he's wearing. he's described as a latino or white man in his 20s. if you know who he is, you're asked to call police. some scary moments aboard a pleasure boat this afternoon. a fire on the boat when it was about half a mile off shore. 8 people including children were on board. they knew the boat was getting hot, but they didn't know where the fire was. the coast guard advised them to put on their life vests and jump into the bay. they were picked up by people

on another pleasure boat. no injuries were reported and no word what caused the fire. new and potentially promising developments tonight for the search for the missing malaysia airliner. china said one of their ships picked up a signal that may be one of the black box recorders. there's concern the batteries could expire in a matter of days. the batteries weren't due to be replaced in a couple months. >> they are duce for replacement in june 2014. >> there's 91 confirmation they are related to flight 370. a u.s. navy ship is expected to reach a crippled sail boat with a sick girl on

board by about 10:00 o'clock tonight. a family was attempting to sail to new zealand, but their daughter got sick. this video of a team parachuting down to the boat on thursday. they say the girl is stable. plans to transfer the family to the navy ship at first light tomorrow. oakland police say a woman found dead near lake merit was a victim of a homicide. the bicyclist found the body outside of recreation center at park boulevard and third avenue. police have not said how she was killed or released her identity and no one has been arrested. shoppers are on edge after a 2nd armed robbery in just a week at a popular east bay mall. live in walnut creek, john. >> reporter: it is saturday

night and lots of people are coming here to celebrate, but what happened over there last night has some people on guard. downtown walnut creek is clone for nordstrom, female an marcus and night life. >> about 11:15 there was a woman in front of the corner tavern who was robbed at gun point. >> reporter: the woman left the restaurant and walked to her car outside when the man demanded her purse and pulled it from her. police say something similar happened last weekend outside yogurt land on california. >> she works in the city. you work in the city, you get mugged, that's supposed to happen. but not in walnut creek. >> reporter: there was an attempted robbery inside the parking structure. >> it's concerning that these guys are out here. >> reporter: it happened last

night, but the robbery was unsuccessful. the victims even went to see a movie afterwards. >> i work in downtown wall nought career in a bar. we always tell people safety in numbers. >> reporter: these crimes have many people being careful. >> you have to be aware of what's around you. not spending your time looking down at your phone and be aware of your surroundings. >> reporter: after the crime outside corner's tavern, the robber got in a car and sped away. the victim was unhurt. police in modesto are investigating a stabbing at a sleep over. a 13 year old girl stabbed her 11 year old sister and a 13 year old friend this morning before turning the knife on herself. two of the girls are in

critical condition. neighbors say she may have special needs. investigators won't confirm that. a 98 year old man has died after being hit by a car while crossing the street in berkeley. it happened in ban croft way and sacramento street. the driver did stop and is cooperating with the investigation. san francisco police took almost 200 guns off the street today. officers conducted a buy-back program collecting handguns, rifles and assault rifles. those turning in received gift cards up to $200 for each weapon. >> we haven't stopped since we started. we have to get additional people out because we're so busy. >> one man turning in a gun told us it had been in his

house for years. last year, the sfpd collected more than 500 guns from this program. an anticommon core movement is building across the country. students in san pablo are among the first to try the test. the online test used essays instead of multiple choice. some parents say it's hard on their kids. >> we have as parents collectively all been noticing a trend that our children are just getting stressed out. they're enjoying learning a lot less. >> advocates warn that parents who opt out won't be able to see their children make progress according to national standards. a boy'sa mother. last week, mark twenty nine elementary -- after her son

passed out opt out fliers to his classmates, the school confiscated them. another confirmed case of measles on the uc berkeley campus. the steps public officials took today to try to keep the disease from spreading. plus a group of san francisco teenagers return from a trip to africa. what they say made it a life- changing experience. the clouds have cleared out of the bay area. we have more changes on the way. coming up, how much warming you can expect for your sunday. and when 80s return to our forecast. next. and a fight between a high school teacher and a student caught on tape. what may have led to the altercasion and how parents are now coming to the teacher's defense.

eck door's volcano known as the throat of fire has erupted in two blasts. smoke blew 6 miles into the sky. the volcano has been active since 1999. it's located 90s miles south of the capital of kito. millions of people in afghanistan defied threats from the taliban and voted in national elections today. some polling places ran out of ballots. preliminary results are expected tomorrow. 8 candidates are running for president and a 50 percent threshold is needed to win.

taliban militants staged 39 suicide bombings. the arrests of two young men and a 15 year old boy. officers spotted a toyota solara going more than 100 miles per hour. the chastened where the toyota crashed into a drainage -- drugs were also said to be found in the car. a 2nd student on the uc berkeley campus has been said to be infected the measles virus. the steps officials took today. >> reporter: a microscopic pathogen that makes people miserable. >> the fever can be high and then that's followed by the typical measles rash. >> reporter: the measles virus is making a come back in

california. an infected student took bart from oakland airport to berkeley on march 30eth and attended classes april first through third. >> it's not uncommon that people are coming to class sick. >> reporter: measles is highly contagious. >> if someone in the infectious period is in a room like this and talks or coughs or sings or cries, the virus is suspended in the air. >> if you get vaccinated within 72 hours of being exposed to the virus, you can be protected from it. >> the measles virus is probably a good thing to take advantage of. personally i'm not that worried, but it is a serious issue. >> reporter: in february, a student commuting to campus on bart exposed an unknown number of passengers to the disease. berkeley health officials say the two cases are not related.

state wide there has been an increase in the number of cases. 51 cases this year compared to 4 for the same period last year. >> we know there's more measles in other parts of the world. newly this year, we are seeing an outbreak related to the philippines. >> just a shot in the arm and you won't get the measles anymore. sounds common sense to me. >> reporter: in berkeley, ktvu channel 2 news. more key tails now. there have been 51 measles cases in california this year. orange county has the most with 21. there are 11 in the bay area. at this time last year there were only 4 measles cases throughout california. a high school teacher in santa monica is on leave after an altercation with a student.

>> holdup. >> several other students recorded yesterday's incident on their cell phones. some students said it all started when the student was caught selling drugs in class. school district is now investigating. one board member said letters sent to the board have overwhelmingly supported the teacher's action. it's all part of operation genesis. the teens returned home this morning from spending a week in the african country of ghana. try to help local teens gain a new perspective on life by understanding the sacrifices made by their ancestors. >> it humbled me a little bit. we think we have it bad. they have it worse out there and they're happy about it. >> everyone's a family out

there. everyone works together. it's nothing i'd experienced before. >> the group spent 9 days in ghana. they also met with youth there and talked about the differences in life in the bay view and life in africa. in loomis, a ceremony was held to break ground on a home being built to give a veteran who lost both of his legs in afghanistan. he stepped on an improvised explosive device. it was made possible by homes for our troops program. let's see what the weekend is going to look like. >> we started out with patchy low clouds this morning, but lots of sunshine and temperatures. we were advertising a little bit of a warm up today. get ready for a big change for

the 2nd half of the weekend. widespread 60s and a few low 70s to report, especially out toward santa rosa. on my storm tracker 2. the main storm track is north of the bay area. there's a closer inspection of the satellite. we are dry across the entire state. the winds do pick up. during the afternoon that was the case for today. oakland, winds out of the west sustained at 15 miles per hour. a stronger wind out at sfo that is sustained out of the west at 23 gusting to 29 miles per hour. winds out of the west gusting at 24 miles per hour. current numbers, santa rosa, 68 degrees, oakland 63, and san jose, 63. look at that, lots of sunshine

in san jose, easily back up into the 70s by 70s 3:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. way out there in the distance. mostly clear skies tonight. tomorrow lots of sunshine. still a dry weather pattern, but temperatures will shave off a few degrees, especially by midweek. widespread 40s out there, and we will have fog. tomorrow the key head line, we're going to warm things up 5 to 10 degrees above today's highs. we warmed up a little bit today. the real warming ticks in for sunday and monday. that means temperatures inland around the 80 degree mark. here's the forecast model showing you patchy fog. into the afternoon hours

increase in sunshine. maybe a patch or two of fog and forecast highs for your sunday, we're thinking lots of 70s out there. out toward vacaville, oakland tops out 73. liver more -- san francisco in the lower 70s. right near the immediate coastline, patchy fog for the morning hours. continue to warm things up for monday and tuesday. ken, it was just 4 days ago we were talking about hail. and now we're talking about 80 degree temperatures. looks like that warming will  continue at least the next two or three days. this is weird especially if you own a mazda. mazda is recalling mazda 6 cars because of spiders. the yellow track spider is

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joe fonzi here to tell us how good it is to be a giants fan. >> there's been no shortage of offense this year for a team that often struggled to score runs in 2013. michael moore scored runs. moore's first home run made it 2 to 1. first it was pablo sand o val. make it 6 to 1. trailing 7 to 1, the dodgers made a little noise in the 7th. hunter makes a perfect throw

for the third out. this play was challenged, but upheld on replay. the giants make it 2 in a row. no tarp or sewage issues for the a's today. their outcome today against the mariners not quite as sunny. that one ends up -- mariners got a 2nd home run in the inning inning. ged lowry broke through with this shot. oakland got the tying run to the plate but went down with the 3-1 score. wisconsin and kentucky are just under way in one semifinal game. florida, the tournament's number 1 seed. florida led earlier, but the

huskies dominated in the 2nd half. the gators close within 10. neils givey. connecticut as a 7th seed will play for the national championship. the sharks tonight with a chance to leap frog past anaheim. san jose hosts nashville. have it for you tonight on sports wrap. near disaster at sea after a pleasure boat in the bay goes up in flames with several people, including some children on board board. carol lewis talking to one of the firefighters. thanks for making ktvu your source for news. we'll see you on facebook, twitter, and all of our ktvu apps. we'll see you tonight at 10:00. day.

um, phil's mom died. it wasn't unexpected, as with her, and she went very peacefully in her sleep. she and i had a special connection. we all did. but mostly me. she said i was just like her. was she weirdly competitive, too? the whole family is going down to florida tomorrow to be with phil for the service. it's such a relief. i can feel how much he needs me right now. there they are. hey, guys. oh! oh, you brought my neck pillow. i missed you so much. phil, i'm so sorry. thanks. grace was such a kind and whimsical soul. the different animals she put antlers on for christmas cards-- inspired. not a single one was photoshopped. not even the alligator? cost her the tip of her pinkie,