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north. 40s an 50s. i expect some of these to drop a little bit. some areas that breeze holds and there is an okay breeze for some. there is a little puff of a breeze stirring things up here. 17 right now. some locations go what breeze? but with a westerly breeze in place, we will see temperatures sliding down a few degrees and settling in. 60s and 70s. sunny and breezy. a few clouds. it will be a little cooler today. lots of 70s inland. here is sal. all right, steve. we have a crash involving a big rig northbound 880 in oakland. this is downtown oakland northbound 880 near broadway. it's kind of hard to tell because of the camera shot here, but it is blocking lanes and northbound 880 is going if o be slow. now you get to the toll plaza there is no backup as you drive through. i do want to mention into east
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bay in general decide -- northbound 880 is actually doing okay. the bay bridge toll plaza delay or the drive time is agent eight minutes. let's go to the maps real quick. i mentioned that crash in oakland. you can see it. it's right here in oakland. for the most part 580 is a great drive. you can use 580 and get around the problem. let's go back to the desk. >> sal, thank you. we are following breaking news richmond where police are investigating a robbery that ended with one person dead. tara moriarty is live in richmond as well. tara, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the man who was trying to break into this home has died. that is the word i received from police. he was trying to break into the building you see behind me here. this is a plumbing business. and someone lives in the back
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of it. the victim was shot a few times in the leg. he was alert when police arrived but his injuries were serious enough that he was actually air lifted to a hospital. and meantime there are more details that are unfolding about how this shooting exactly unfolded. police are describing it to me as a burglary in progress. they are basically saying the burglar was trying to break in, steal some things when the victim confronted him and shot him in the chest. gunfire was exchanged because the victim obviously also shot. so the suspect he was driven to a nearby hospital and the people who drove him to that hospital are now in custody. they are at the richmond police station. obviously a lot of details need to be sorted out. but some of the people that i've been audiocassetting to in the department say this is kind of an incredible story of someone who was basically about to be robbed. got himself armed and was able to shoot the suspect. that suspect has been killed. we don't have details on his
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age or who he is from. live from richmond i'm tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. authorities are trying to positively identify a body found on mt. tam. crews discovered a female body around 4:40 yesterday afternoon in an area not marked as a hiking trail. clothing on the body matches that of 50-year-old marie christine was wearing when she went for a hike on wednesday night. her father reported her missing. >> she may have possibly fallen. maybe 40-50 feet down into the drainage which sadly is covered with large rocks and bolders and so forth. >> the coroner will use fingerprints, dental, and other medical records to identify the body. sanders body was found in the same general area of another missing hiker. but there is no connection between these two deaths.
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the body of 33-year-old the software developer was found in a steep slope. there are no signs of foul play in that case but the coroner will wait for toxicology tests before announcing a cause of death. police are investigating a deadly shooting in downtown concord. it is the city's first homicide of the year. it happened just before 9:00 last night. when police arrived, they found a man who had been shot to death lying in the roadway. anyone with information is asked to contact concord police. an eight-year-old boy is among the people injured in a crash that police say was caused by a drunk driver. officers say the driver of a white suv ran a red light on list parian boulevard around 10:00 last night. she then t-boned the chevy sedan which had a couple and two children inside of it. eight-year-old boy and his father were rushed to the hospital but there may be other injuries. police say it's a miracle no
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one died in the accident. >> you can see the intrusion to that side of the car. it's pretty dangerous. and luckily right now there will be no fatalities. >> police say the suv driver a woman in her 40s showed obvious signs of intoxication. she was immediately arrested >> two highway workers recovering. the workers were hit during a lane restriping project on eastbound interstate 80 shortly after 9:00 last night. the chp says the workers were closing down lanes from interstate 80 to highway 12 when they were hit. the chp is warning other drivers to slow down in construction zones. >> you want people to slow down. give yourself ample time and space and distance to make any type of maneuver left or right around these vehicles. we have people that need to go home to their families as well. >> the two road worker were
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taken to a north bay hospital with minor injuries. the driver has major injuries. once host out of the hospital he faces dui charges. we are learning a driver involved in a crash in san jose yesterday has died. it's a story we first brought you yesterday morning. the crash snarled traffic for hours during the morning commute. a 42-year-old san jose man injured in the crash died later at the hospital. police say the other driver in the crash was seriously injuried and will be arrested on suspicion of dui. happening now people are gathering in san francisco to mark the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. i want to go to live pictures from san francisco in about 30 minutes from now a wreath ceremony will take place that will be followed by a moment of silence. the quake is estimated to have
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a magnitude between 7.7 and 7.9. it was followed by a devastating fire. combined the two disasters killed 3,000 people and destroyed 80% of the city. about an hour from now the fire hydrant at 20th and church streets in san francisco will get a new coat of gold paint. it happens every year to honor the fire hydrant that saved the mission district. and yesterday san francisco dignitaries give two other fire hydrants a coat of silver paint. they also played major roles in fighting the fires after the 1906 earthquake. only 23 of more than 4,000 fire hydrants in san francisco had a useful water supply after the quake. there is another cyber attack that may effect millions of american shoppers. the largest craft store in the country says there has ban security breach in its payment system. information from three million
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credit and debt cards used could be effected. the company says the mall ware used in this attack has never been seen before by the two security firms it has investigating the case. meantime secret service investigators say they are getting close to understanding how hackers broke into targets computer system last year. but it could take years to identify the thieves that took personal information from 70 million people. target says it can't estimate how much the cyber attack will cost it. but losses to consumers, banks, and retailers could total billions of dollars. coming up a popular high school teacher arrested. coming up at 5:00 the disturbing charges against him. and how some students are coming to his defense. >> 911 calls released.
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next the information investigators are hoping to learn. >> and right now we are looking at a commute that is effected or may be effected by a crash on 880 near broadway. right now northbound 880 looks good. ly still advise you -- i will still advise you to use an alternate route. >> a little weak cold front came by but that certainly stirred up a little bit of the breeze. i will tell you if it continues to be breezy and how much cooler.
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welcome back. time is 4:42. fewer than a quarter of oakland's homicide cases has resulted in an arrest. that is is because they are not getting the information they need to solve their cases. yesterday police released this surveillance video hoping to catch the suspect of their latest homicide. it shows a white mercedes that could be connected to the shooting death of marcian
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fuller. >> i cry. i see crying every time. i can't stop crying. >> his first born son was shot and killed back in february. he was a college student who dreamed of becoming a singer. ktvu has learned that his is one of six homicide cases that has ended in an arrest. oakland police are calling on the city council to buy think radios after another outage last night left officers unable to communicate in the field. it went down for three minutes last night. it's a problem that has plagued the oakland police department for years. oakland city manager says officers will get new radios and the matter should go before the full city council no later than june. now to our continuing
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coverage of the deadly bus crash on interstate 5. as part of its process in determining what caused last week's accident, the chp recreated the conditions leading up to the crash. yesterday investigators tested two vehicles similar to the fedex truck and bus that collided with one another. it was a reenactment without the actual impact. cameras were installed of the vehicles to determine the drivers line of vision. and there was a test to determine the speed of the vehicle. >> we owe it to the families of the involved parties and the victims of this tragic collision that we tell the story of what happened. >> the chp investigation could take up to six months to complete. the ntsb is conducting its own investigation to see if any safety changes are needed for the future. the test occurred on the same day that 911 audio recordings were released about the crash. you can hear the panic in one emergency call. >> i was in a car accident.
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i was in a travel bus and we crashed into a fedex truck. for >> ten people were killed in the crash including five high school students heading to humboldt state university for a tour. the victims could have chid from smoke inhalation to blunt force trauma. you can hear more of the 911 calls at ktvu.com. just go to the hot topic section in the middle of the web page. time is 4:45. bart service is on schedule hours after a bart train went off the tracks near the north concord station. news chopper 2 was over the scene. officials say the train was head into a maintenance yard when it went off the tracks. no passengers were on board.
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this is the second time a bart train has derailed in the concord area in two months. a derailment back in february caused long delays for hundreds of passengers stranded. the derailment at the north concord bart station came on the say day that state regulators handed down a $210,000 fine. a cal osha investigation shows bart deliberately violated safety rules and the agencies simple approval policy was simple and not followed. it required work earns to take responsible. the investigation also cited bart for not supervising the trainee. christopher shepard and lawrence daniels were struck and killed by a bart train while inspecting tracks. cal osha says shepard and daniels were not properly trained to perform work near
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energized third rails. >> they were not qualified to be working near a live third rail. as a matter of fact they had an aluminum track gauge which was three feet in length. if that had hit that third rail, it would have elect -- electrocuted them. >> meantime barts general manager released a statement in response to the report saying bart has fundamentally upgraded its safety procedures with the implementation of a an enhanced safety. time is 4:47. let's go to sal. keeping an eye on traffic on this friday morning. hopefully it stays friday light out there. >> we are hoping. today is good friday. some people will have the day
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off. the markets will if closed. i think we might have lighter than usual conditions. let's see. let's take a look at what we have now. we have a crash that is right near broadway. just past oak street and traffic is beginning to slow down here in oakland approaching that crash involving a bigging are and you still may want to avoid. and use 580 as your alternate route. you get to the toll plaza, traffic is light. we are expecting -- also looking at the commute in the south bay, they are all looking good into the main part of the valley. let's go to steve. thank you. mostly clear. a little bit of patchy low clouds around. our system came by and it will usher in a little cooler air
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mass here. cooler and breezy today. mostly clear. if it wasn't for the breeze we would deal with a lot more 40s. santa rosa was north and now they are calm. and the dew points are a little lower. it will be sunny, mostly sunny. 50s and 60s. 60s and 70s. san francisco starting off 52 and maybe patchy low clouds. 59 at noon. we will guy for a high of 64 degrees. just a gradual warmup into the weekend. sunday looks to be the best day of the weekend. a little bit of fog maybe on the san mateo coast. 40s and 50s. they are all pretty close here. coast, bay and inland. sfo, 17. there is a little breeze for some. calm conditions. but there is a little hint of a breeze for a few. over all our system came by. a little bit of to the north.
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next system is tracking to the north but next week there are changes we've been talking about this. it looks like on monday increasing clouds. possibility of some rain on tuesday. may be lingering into wednesday. i think the main screaming mazage will be how much cooler and breezy it may be. maybe some rain. sunny and breezy today. a few clouds. it will be a little cooler for inland areas. 60s coast and bay. upper 60s and mainly mid 70s. we do have a cooler, breezy pattern today. is little warmer as we go into sunday and clouds increase monday. we could be looking and talking about rain on tuesday. >> steve; thank you very -- steve, thank you very much. an avalanche killed guides. the guides all from nepal had gone ahead to set ropes for climbers in advance of the climbing season which begins in
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may. there are conflicting reports that as many as 25 guides were in the group hit by the avalanche. an agreement aimed at reducing escalating tensions in the ukraine crisis is meeting resistance this morning. they are refusing to leave their block aid of government buildings. john kerry helped ham #er out the deal in which they are supposed to stop further violent acts. coming up an explosion at at & t park. a suspect accused of tossing a fire work at baseball fans. what people in the stands and players in the field say they saw happen. and avoiding a parking ticket. two investigates when you are most likely to get a ticket in san francisco and how that can soon change.
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it's a store story we first reported to you. no arrests have been made in the tragic death of a nine- month-old baby. the baby's father was supposed to drop the boy off with a babysitter on wednesday morning. but somehow forgot and left him in the car. the baby had been in the car for several hours. >> i don't know how it
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happened. he got distracted or something. when he got back he found the baby. he called 911. >> many neighbors say they are haunted by the tragedy since some of them were working outside within feet of the suv and didn't notice the baby inside the car. the incident still under investigation. the ride sharing service uber x is adds a safe ride fee. the $1 fee will pay for driver background and vehicle checks. uber-x is the cheaper option to traditional black cars. they have come under pressure to take more safety precautions after a deadly crash in san francisco. on new years eve six-year-old sofia and her mother and father
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were hurt when a driver hit them. big changes coming to san francisco's parking enforcement policies. 2 investigates the likely revenue hit the city will suffer. >> you've got to read all the signs, check the curbs, check the meters. make sure it's not a tow away sign. >> ktvu has learned they issued a total of 1.5 million tickets and sundays were the busiest. mondays were the next highest. mta atowned they are doing away -- announced they are doing away with sunday meter citations. >> we still feel we will make up the revenue lost by sunday meters but we will be able to deploy the same parking control officers. >> as to what tickets are issued more frequently it's street cleaning. it's accounted for one-third of all tickets issued last year.
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next was expired parking meters and residential permit parking tickets came in at number three. next month mta will start to install new smart meters that allow people to pay with cash, credit card, and by phone. time is 4:55. teachers in the belmont school district are pushing for a pay increase. they are being priced out of living in the communities where they teach. last night they rallied near school district offices where the school board was discussing labor negotiations behind closed doors. about a quarter of their members work two jobs to make ends meet. >> we would rather have our educators here focused on their kids 150% rather than worry about commuting and mortgages. >> teachers say they haven't had a raise in three years and they say the cost of health insurance has increased significantly. according to state records, the average salary for a teacher in the belmont redwood shores district is $72,000 a year. compared to the state average
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of $69,000 a year. >> this is good friday. one of the holiest days in the christian calendar. some of them carried crosses as they traced what is believed to be the final path jesus christ took before his crucifixion. a pile of cash discovered at a rest stop. >> we are continuing to follow the breaking news out of richmond this morning. a would-be burglar is dead after a violent encounter in texas. >> good morning. right now we are looking at a commute that is still slow on the nimitz freeway. effected by a truck accident. coming up we will show you what the best way to get around this problem in oakland is. >> weak little cold front slid
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are saying. >> east bay teacher is arrested after disturbing charges against him. and why some students say they are shocked. >> these are live pictures and there is san francisco mayor ed lee speaking right now. it was 108 years ago today that the great 1906 quake struck the bay area. the annual tradition that is already getting under way right now to commemorate that anniversary. >> new developments from south korea overnight. the arrest warrant just issued as hundreds of people remain missing after this weeks sinking of the ferry boat. it's all ahead on ktvu channel 2 morning news. and good morning. we are following breaking news. you are taking a look live at pictures from richmond where police are investigating a homicide right now. tara moriarty will have more on the attempted burglary that police say is tied to it. it is fda
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