show her face. she was out for a walk when she heard the commotion. >> police are also investigating allegations of drug use in the apartment. for residents here who would see the 2-year-old playing outside. this is heartbreaking. >> this makes me hurt inside because that's a little baby that cannot even make it no more. his life is gone and don't know what happened to him, you know? it really hurts. >> reporter: no word yet on cause the death or whether it might be ruled a homicide. live in oakland, anne ruban, ktvu channel 2 news. happening now, memorial day is here and traffic in some parts of the bay area is a mess. we are going to watch you through some of the worse spots. firs want to show you on the side of 880 of the coliseum. actually, traffic does not look that bad right now. that he has lanes are heading

downtown oakland. much different situation on 880 as it goes through berkeley and traffic is really bad as you can see. this is actually the commute direction. these folks heading into san francisco and towards oakland presumably and some of these people are going to the giants game tonight which starts about 7:00 this evening. we want to show you the bay bridge plaza. these lanes here are both cash d fast track and they're backed up pretty well right now. >> frank mentions people hoping to get away from the holiday, they're facing a slow start to the journey. our ktvu crews updating you all morning law on the traffic issues there. officials say that glitch has since been fixed.

ktvu tom vacar is lye live at that intersection. >> reporter: the lights are not a problem, it is a get away weekend. for a lot of people getting away means getting away to the south or getting away right into the city. once you get into the city, you have the other problem that's sitting besides you and in front of you and that's all the traffic going into the giants game. it all began when it was still dark this morning. >> for some reason the lights for car pooling came on. normally, it is on non commute s so we had some kind of a glitch. we had to shut off all the lights for five and ten minutes and we got them back on. >> all of that caused back ups and creating a significantly early jam up than

usual. >> we called in chp and they have been waiting traffic through the hov lane. chp says it was resolved about 11:00 this morning but congestion remains ongoing and lasted well on the morning commute as shown by these pictures taken before noon today >> we regret the inconvenience. >> reporter: the situation here is not normal but it is -- reporting live, tom vaca ktvu channel 2 news. the man known as the rapest o bay area is going to be released. he will be released by july 7th in palm dale in los angeles county. he's linked to as many as 100 rapes in southern

california and the bay area during the '70s and '80s. a group of women in la attended the hearing and hoping to extend his release. an amber alert is still in effect for an abducted child of a 2-year-old edwin vargas was kidnapped in los angeles by his father. the boy's mother h restraining order against him. 27-year-old abraham vargas was hiding and drove off the little boy inside. the car was found later in la but there was no sign of the father and son. a former oakland police officer is collecting tens of thousands of dollars of disability payments. tonight oakland police is investigating. ktvu is in oakland this evening to explain

why this officer has done nothing illegal. >> reporter: the city is trying to figure out whether or not they should cut-off the $52, 000 annual disability payoff this man is receiving. you see they still need some time to investigate that. from what we are learning he can basically do this. it is not against the law because of a loophole. he retired on the disability from 2004 after reportedly suffering injuries from his leg. according to one report mcfarland was involved in a shooting last year killing a friend with one of the suspects during the interrogation in florida. so this case does file into a gray area. it is against the law to retire on disability and work for another law enforcement agency in the state of california but

there is nothing to prevent someone under disabilities from working in another state and that has some city council members frustrated. >> the reality is really is for an officer, it is a misstatement and misused of fund. at the end of the day i am paying for that pension as a resident and i think that needs to be corrected or stopped. >> reporter: he was the focus of four internal investigations and two police lawsuits even though he denied doing anything wrong. coming up at 6:00, one attorney says this can be a bigger problem. ktvu channel 2 news. it was a first appearance -- he will secretary the death penalty. our camera was not in the san

jose courtroom today. supporters attended today's hearing wearing red tennis shoes, which was his favorite color. they hope a death sentence could help lead to his conclusion. >> we would be fine with that. >> the hearing on the request of unsealed document was postponed. garcia's next court date is set for june 27th. a major new development tonight involving donald sterling of the owner of los angeles clippers. reporter telling us why now sterling is not going to fight the order from nba that he sells his team. >> the new information comes from a source familiar with the clippers controversy.

legal experts say the move means a fate of the team maybe decided sooner rather than later. >> they want this resolved quickly. that means if control is transferred to shellie sterling and she's negotiating the sales on behalf of the family on their terms, that's good for the sterlings and good for the nba. >> the league is still not ruling out a for sale for the team. in a statement the nba says we continue to follow the process that's set forth in the nba constitution regarding of the ownership in the los angeles clippers and are proceeding on a hearing on this matter on june 3rd. the nba board of governors will meet to vote on whether to take the team from the sterlings, the couple has until tuesday to tell the league what they're going to do. nba commissioner, adam silver says the -- >> it is their team to sell. and so he knows what the

league's point of view is and so i am sure if he wanted to sell the team, you know, on some reasonable timetable, i prefer that he sell it then we go through the process. >> silver like the rest of the league is watching and waiting for the sterlings' next move. >> ktvu channel 2 news. just about an hour from now, a memorial and candle light walk will mark 20 years since the teenager was killed for no reasons inside her home in castro valley, jennie lin was found dead on may 27, 1994. her killer was never found. a $100, 000 award has been offered leading to information. the service is at 6:30 tonight at nor bridge avenue. water supply maybe contaminated by e-colli.

9 million gallons of water will have to be flushed from that contaminated reservoir. a man accused of a deadly shooting in san francisco earlier this week. hard work and the department's water system helps them catch 27-year-old rodney williams. the victim 23-year-old derek field was shot in head and died. investigators later developed information that led them to the suspect and no word on a possible motive. a 70 foot fall into an icy of this. >> oh, the painful decision that may have saved his life. as we move into the weekend, i am tracking the system behind the warm up and if the weather will hold for your holiday weekend. coming up is the bay area's city following its own rules.

of a time of mandatory restrictions, we investigate of water use in the city pla easanton.

marine biologists are trying to determine what killed the baby hump back with hale. the results could also help researchers learning more about where that hump whale is headed. a political raised in the south bay is getting ugly with claims of dirty tricks. ktvu robert honda tells us of the same thing happened when the same two candidates faced off four years ago.

>> reporter: the two front runners are essentially the same candidates who ran four years ago. . tick that led tactic led to fraud charges. >> and just a couple of nights ago it was confirmed by neighbors that there is a private investigator asking questions about me and my children and about my whereabouts and asking for his cooperation. >> campaign calling it mud slinging.

>> i was not elected at that time, i am however, a state commissioner and we are looking to whether not that income should not have been reported. >> the idea to avoid cross-petition and avoid corruption, that's what we are suppose to try to avoid and she made a false statement. >> they're trying to figure out if another campaign -- robert honda, ktvu channel 2 news. a red cross is launching a national campaign to help people learning about basic swimming skills and the agency says an 80% of americans say they can swim but only half can perform specific skills that can save them from drowning. the program will begin in 50 cities and 19 states and right here in california. they're all on that list because

the drowning rate in those cities is more than doubled the national average. new rules for bonfires now in effect in ocean beach and san francisco. that's an hour earlier than before of. the park service plans to install 12 new fire rings at the beach and bonfires will be banned. the new rules are in response to complaints about disorderly beach parties and fires left unattended. back to the holiday traffic, look at this, these are pictures from news chopper 2. this is the split on 80. those lanes are splitting off and heading to the bay bridge, the traffic is at a practical standstill in every single lane. the commute direction on the left is backed up. as we head down the toll plaza and the giants game starting about in 95 minutes or so and a lot of those people are headed

to the at&t park. bottom line, traffic on 80 right now is bad. >> not a fun time for those folks looking away to get away for the memorial weekend. let's check in with our weather, what's going to be in store. >> yeah, the weather looks good. there is nothing worse being stuck in traffic. >> oh my god. >> check our watch. >> traffic is bad and a lot of folks trying to get where they're going. the holiday weekend coming up and the weather is going to be outstanding. we have been talking about it all week. it started off cool, remember last weekend? temperatures in the 60s and breezy. this weekend is going to be opposite of, it is going to be warmer. the big difference is the fog along the coast. look at the avenues right now, it is foggy. sun set district out in the north beach area, you got fog kind of lapping at at&t park right

right about here. if you are going to the game, take ariel castro jacket with you, you will need it by the third inning. out to the west, westerly winds, typical this time of the year. some gusts at the san francisco airport. the winds are blowing out there and the high pressure is doing its thing and that's why it is going to warm up and push the fog down. it will be warm tomorrow of another 5 degrees. the fog is being compressed of the high pressure. san jose for your saturday start off in the 50s. at lunchtime near 70s and by tomorrow about 81 degrees or 82 degrees in downtown san jose. 70 degrees for daytime high in san francisco. the fog is going to be there in and out, it is going to be foggy most of the day at ocean beach and daily city. just go through the bay area

climates and you can see you will get your upper 80s. you will get some lows 90s tomorrow. warmer still on sunday. a great night to watch the movir meteor shower. i heard up to 1 to -- both nights and saturday night and be prepare for great viewing in the bay area for meteor. i c pronounce it. i will get the pronouncer on it. do you know it heather? >> i am not, thanks for putting me on the spot, though. >> thanks bill. controversial art on the move in san francisco. first though, an incredible

story of survival. >> thankfully, it did not keep on falling. >> trapped on a small ledge all alone with a broken arm and rib. the video this man shot as he work to save himself. now in the news room of what we are working on at 6:00. a family traveling in an rv found it too cute not to keep and a woman serving six years in prison for a wrong way crash that killed an innocent man. details and more coming up at 6:00.

now to an incredible story, an american researcher found 70 feet, he was all alone and trapped.

he had a broken arm and a broken wrist and a broken rib. >> thankfully it did not keep on pulling that way. >> trapped alone 70 feet below the ice. professor john was broken and bruised and fighting for his life. >> my right arm, i cannot use it anymore. >> he was all hiking along in the mountains wh plunged into an icy cross and landed on three feet wide and his face bloody and fractured arm and broken ribs. the professor made a life-saving decision to climb out. >> it hurts bad. i got to get out. >> [ indiscernible audio ]

>> it took around five agonizing hours all making his way to the top eventually reaching his team camp where the professor later rescued. >> it happened so quickly, thank god i am still alive. [ indiscernible audio ] >> boy, that little piece of ledge, how lucky he is. that professor is at west kentucky university. >> that was remarkable. >> wow. drinking water, spilling into the street. >> we investigate what happened on this street that had one bay area city being called "a water waster. ". the art installation is packing up and what people are saying about the art work now that they had to get use to it. a presidential surprise for

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tonight two investigates of the city accused of wasting drinking water while asking people who live there to cut back. tonight we have pictures from water practically flooding the streets in pleasanton. john is showing us what happens and how the city is explaining it. >> reporter: this is near owens and a flood of city water here last evening had angry neighbors.

>> drinking water flowing more than an hour. this picture was sent to us. >> we were shocked and it upsets me because i plan to -- >> the city today blamed the contact and a bad control device. >> that contractor have to have it fix before tonight otherwise we'll shut the water up to that. >> city operation daniel smith did confirmed drinking water is used to irrigate city sports fields. they could face fines. >> wealthy people still have very green lawn. i am surprised if they let this one go. they have a lot of sports here >> residence point to new strip in other public areas. hold on, it is conserving water big times showing new

figures that's compared to last year's water use is down to 70%. the tomorrow water supplies today is going down the drain. >> if we conserve we could make it and if we don't conserve, we literally have time in the summer to shut the water off. >> they want problems to be reported like the one here. they say we are all in this drought together. reporting live, in pleasanton, ktvu channel 2 news. we have an update to the story we first reported at 10:00 news. we are asking to find the person who killed one other person and wounded another last night in haywood. a 22-year-old man shot while driving his suv.

he slammed into a car and crashed into a b investigators say a second shooting victim of a 48-year-old man turned by the hospital he suffered moderate injuries but should be okay. a coalition of workers took a big step in this campaign to raise the minimum wage in oakland. [ cheering ] >> that group east bay alliance delivered $35ed 35 signatures. signatures to raise minimum wage of $12. 25 in oakland. currently, it stands at $8 an hr . >> i am a single mom and i have a 6-year-old boy and i work minimum wage and multiple jobs maintaining and making ends meet. working hard for little money is

stressful and discouraging and it feels under valued. >> the proposal also calls for five or nine paid sick days a year. some opponents say they are concerned that this initiative would drive up the cost to do businesses in oakland and forces bus to move to other cities. san francisco has the highest rate in the region at $10. 74. a voter aprovered increase in se and that raised $10. 15. richmond city council voted to d for a proposal that calls for $12. 30 by the year 2015. berkeley city council is considering its own fate bringing minimum wage to $12. 53 by the year 2016. new at 5:00. art on the move. the sculpture that was parked fe

than a year is now headed back to the collectors that owned them. people are upset because they said those sculptures blocked their views and took up valuable space. people still have mix feelings about it. >> the biggest thing of the sculptures and towering as high as 50 feet. >> i like them a lot and i think they're in a wonderful spot. >> the san francisco museum of modern art brought them here part of a yearlong. >> it is really bad and it looks like junk and clogging up landscape. >> anthony is 100 people who petitioned last year to remove the sculptures. >> there is no way to avoid it and it takes up every angle from where ever you want to position yourself. it is impossible to keep those

things out of the shot. >> those sculptures were carefully spaced. >> we want to be sure that for those coming here not be engaged with the sculptures would be an opportunity for that. >> i didn't care for them initially, i thought they're going to take up a lot more space than they did. visitors told us it took them a while to up to the cold steel. >> in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 news, david stevenson. it is the ultimate gift of a bay area woman meets the parents of her organ donor. >> that i won't be a disappointment to her.

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fans. you can help kaepernick. sherman became public enemy number 1, you remember that after he knocked off the 49e deflecting kaepernick. sherman and kaepernick is going off each other. online voting runs through next friday and we posted a link on the web link section on www.ktvu.com for you to vote. several top lawmakers demanding automakers paying much larger fines. you will recall the transportation department just fined gm. that amount is the maximum currently allowed. but, democrats in the u.s. senate have introduced the automaker accountability act which would remove limits on safety

fines and safety advocates say it is about time. >> gm has recalled nearly 14 million vehicles since january. a faulty ignition switch in some older model cars is blamed for the deaths of at least 14 people. residents got the moment of a lifetime when they ran into president obama during a walk. >> oh my god, someone going to think you are like whack. >> there is a picture that i am sure ended up on twitter. >> it happened on wednesday. the president asked the woman she was selling pretzels and how business was.

a woman thought it was suicide after her husband was injured. a new push to protect the family of veterans. the first of its kind drilling the new approach first-responders are taking when it comes to school shootings. back here with a look of your holiday weekend when is the warmest and when the cool down will begin, i will have it right back after the break.

the military tracks suicides among service members. the military does not count enough suicides among family members. now, the pentagon is asking to do something about that. ktvu talks to an army wife who attempted to take her own life twice. >> a u.s. sniper shot in the face during the fight in iraq. they were there for three years. >> all of my care was going towards him and the children and i put myself last. >> financial physical and emotional stress left torii desperate and pushed to the edge. >> i did lose hope. >> she tried to kill herself. >> it is like being a notion and you cannot come up for air. >> not just once. >> she tried twice.

>> i could not do that right >> torii is among thousands buckling under the pressure of two wars. >> congress asks what would it take to track suicides for family members. >> congress is considering whether to --a defense spokesman tells me it would take about two years and half a million dollars a year there ever to compile suicidal statistics. congresswoman tells me a new look of suicide will reveal of what military families need. >> we put the family members through as they get the tour five or six or seven times.

>> he's helping her husband th traumatic injuries and a list of other things. >> we have been screaming from the rooftop saying we need help. >> torii and other military groups tracking family members. the largest military advocacy groups serving 50 family members in 2012 and 9% of them reported commit suicide. s. it happens around the time severe storms was impacting a wide stretch from colorado to new york. maryland learned that the system went down yesterday lasting more than half an hour. >> we need it for the protection

of life and property and we don't have the technology to get these out when they're needed. somebody is going to die. >> national weather services blaming the computer outage occurred while installing a firewall. some delays were delayed and not through normal channels. for casters update e-mails and twitter and facebook trying to get alerts. from cabins to casinos tour officials saying nearly every room is booked and finding spots near the campgrounds are impossible. many people made their reservations months in advance. taking a live look right now on the get away friday. these are live pictures at our cameras looking at interstate 80 through berkeley, the giants game are just about to get under way at

7:15 and so a lot of people are heading that direction. you can see that road ways are clogged in both directions. this is near 880 along coliseum where things are moving a little bit better. and further south south of san jose and along 280, it is a little backed up. let's talk more about our weather now. a little fog coming in the gates and it will cool you off. we just showed it to you and it is getting on the bay bridge. take your time and moving out the bay area, you are going to find fog at the post. it will clear up up there in the next six hours or so, we got fog along the coast and fog will be a player right through the bay area weekend and that keeps temperatures out here by the park and by th and it

keeps temperatures in the 50s. look at the cool there, you can see all the greens and not just the fog or the clouds. it is right about the east bay hills and it kind of stops. you get the air in here and it is much warmer. you see temperatures different through the coasts. it was ramped up last weekend and it is starting to die out a little bit. the greens may be compacted a little bit more and that compactions as we go through increases our temperatures. that's the plan. fog are going to stay in the coast but the inland valleys are going to be clean. san francisco, we are look for a daytime high of 70 degrees and you start off in the 50s it is foggy. by the third or fourth innings you will get fog and when you leave it is going to be foggy. by lunchtime tomorrow, the fog will start to clear and by late in the day, we'll be sunny in san francisco at 70

degrees. 80 in vallejo and 84 in walnut creek. we'll see some lows 90s in the inland spots as well. sunday we'll be slightly warmer and monday is going to look a lot like this. sunday we'll get in the lows 90s and monday we'll trend back down. it is going to be a nice weekend no matter how you cut it. i like the fog. a lot of folks do. it is not a bad deal if you like the fog. it will be nice. there will be breaks out of the beaches. there is your five-day forecasts in view, 89 and 90s and warmest day is on sunday and slightly cool for your bay area. cannot ask for a better weekend. i love it when it works out like this. >> our director is head to the giants game after this newscast. >> no, he's not >> i think he's going to be late.

>> thanks bill. hugs and kisses as two women see each other for the first time. how the death of one woman's son changed both of their lives forever. back with julie of what we are working on for 6:00. a dwi crash that killed an innocent east bay driver while another man was mile away from the accident can be charged and even though the woman behind the wheel is already in jail. a family on vacation go to the beach and snatched a pup and throws her into the rv and took off. these stories and more coming up in less than 10 minutes at 6:00.

it was a first of its kind emergency drill in oakland. police and first-responders simulating a school shooting this morning. it was held on the campus of oakland high school. police and first-responders and other emergency responders all joined oakland school leader for the training event. they practiced how they would react to a shooter on campus. >> it seems like this kind of

incidents are increasing across the country. we need to make sure we are working together in responding to these kinds of events. >> there was no school today so the drill did not affect oakland high students. firefighters in arizona are making progress in a fast moving fire that's tearing through the canyon. it was south of flagstaff. thousands of people remains under evacuations. crews are making good progress in keeping the flames close to community. the fire was caused by humans but they don't know how exactly. new two women metaphor the first met for the first time today. the two will be forever rozzelld thanks to organ donation.

>> the mother and father of a young man donated their kidney. >> three years ago she had not thought that michael choppy 's kidney. >> i think of michael. >> then michael's parents arrived. >> so happy to meet you. >> [cries] >> it is such an honor. >> these are both of your sons . >> later michael and kim later would share photo graphs of their sons and the rest of the family. it turned out that choppy were as nervous of meeting faith. >> i kind of wanted to be a gourmet chef for a while. >> they became best friends.

>> when i first saw her i thought oh my god, he did good. my son did good. >> the choppy says they're registered oregon donors and encourages their three children to be as well. >> michael donated his liver and both kidneys. >> i not only thank him for his kidney but i thank him for what he taught me about enjoying every second about life. >> to let a child know that it wa vain and something good came out of this. ktvu channel 2 news. a woman is already in prison for a dwi crash. a man mile away from the crash is also facing charges. a former police officer is collecting thousands of dollars from lifetime disability payments from the city and tax free while also working

for the fbi, it is all perfectly legal because of two simple words. and swimming in a pool with seals from all the fish you can seat. her travels from a beach to a laundry basket in an rv to the safety of rescuers. and the question that got gym harbaugh still jim harbaugh still fired up today, the 49ers coach. two injured to work as an okay land police officer but okay to be an fbi agent. it is a controversial going on in oakland >> we are talk about a lot of money. a former police officer is paid more than a half million dollars in disability payments all tax free

over the past decade and he's also working as an fbi agent. ktvu channel 2 news talks with some people who called this double dipping but technically he's not breaking the law. >> reporter: we spoke with the agency that paid out retired agency, it is against the law for them to work for another law agency in the state of california but there is nothing prohibiting them collecting the paychecks and working in another state and some say that needs to change. >> aaron mcfarland gets $50, 000 a year and he gets paid to be an fbi agent in boston. he retires 2004 from injuries but passed the fitness test four years later. >> i am surprised that he would be allowed to continue at the capacity of law enforcement and especially the fbi. >> it is not right that he's double dipping