close, parents teachers and schools are forced to keep it open and we will tell you why the school is open. and a homicide investigation, a double shooting why one man an innocent bystander is now in the hospital. george, catherine cooper . the 6 lives taken, a very tearful memorial at the campus, complete bay area news coverage right now this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. live pictures from oakland, parents, teachers and students hope to save one of the city's oldest charter schools. tara moriarty is there we will have a live report on the efforts to keep the door open.

i am torii campbell, i i am in for pam cook. >> steve is off today but mark is off, thank he so much, -- thank you so much. today we have lots of sunshine with a bit of a breeze and i will show you this box showing a beautiful sunrise and i promise it is coming up in a little bit. warm and more clouds sunday temperatures will be warming up as we head towards the sunday forecast. approaching the northern parts of the state and we are clear, we had temperatures with most spots in the 50s. san jose 54, livermore 54 degrees and mostly clear, 58 degrees and by lunchtime 72 and

by 3:00 and 4:00, 65 to 85 degrees, especially coast side and 20-mile-per-hour. warmest locations are around 85 degrees coast side checking in at 64. we will have your weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes, sal has an update on traffic. sal? >> mark, we have traffic still doing well and i think it will get your seal of approval, it looks good down to the hagueen berger exit that is the way we like it and those metering lights are on and we already have a 25 minute delay. they do get started early and we have a 25 minute drive time and it is coming up a little bit as we speak. 20 - 30, just so we can cover our bases getting into san francisco for the drive time.

leapt hill to the caldecott, -- pleasant hill to the caldecott, to oakland also looks good, let's go back to the desk. they are pursuing a couple of leads following a double shooting at a gas station. one of the victims was gunned down in his car. following his story now, in the last hour you were at the police station and he is back now live where the attack occurred. alex? well, the shooter in this case left one man dead and appears to be wounded. that was a man walking through the parking lot of the gas station when he was hit by gunfire. vallejo detectives, there were quite a few people here when this happened. the clerk on duty told me five shots were fired and this happened at the gas station

near sonoma boulevard and interstate 880. he fired into a car that was parked near one of the pumps with a man who was sitting inside. police say he was likely a customer and was not connected to the first victim. that man suffered a gunshot wound to the foot and is expected to survive. a lot of innocent people were put into harms way. >> it is extremely dangerous and maybe you are at the wrong place at the wrong time and you are struck by gunfire and maybe for us and for him, he was not mortally wounded. >> they are looking to see if they may show what happened and it may get a description and that person is still on the run this morning and the man who was killed, 24 years old but has not been identified by

police. alex savage, ktvu channel 2 morning news. it is 6:04 they were loving sons and friends. they said good-bye by to 6 students whose lives were cut too short. why has such a beautiful place and such beautiful people been hurt in this way, why here and why now. >> about 20,000 people gathered at the stadium for the six students killed last friday. the speakers included the chancellor, secretary of homeland security janet napolitano and the father of the one of the victims. he rallied the crowd to pressure lawmakers into tougher gun control laws. and since the deadly a tag, flags on all uc campuses will

remain at half staff until sunday and students say while this is a terrible way to end the school year they will never forget the way the school came together. movies like his are not to blame for the tragedy in santa barbara. he made the suggestion that from the boy fantasies show quote, shrubby actors getting the girl and living happily ever after. he said quote how dare you imply me getting girls in movies caused a lunatic to go on a rampage. george chen and chen yuan

hong lived with elliot roger. chen yuan hong went to dark weihan wang went to fremont high school and will rename a basketball court he loved in his name. chen yuan hong helped to build theater sets even though he was very shy at first. george chen went to leyland high in san jose and they were helping students and staff members deal with their growth. they kept the casualty toll from getting even higher. >> law enforcement in and around the school had two purposes last friday, stopping that gunman and protecting people who got in his way. there is now this large banner with a lot of the written messages and has a very grateful community.

>> i saw the patrol running across. everybody is instructed to get inside. >> deputies ran through the streets ordering people to get inside for their own safety but they have no idea how serious it was to clear the streets. growing in size, they have dozens of people fleeing the homes and the fire is east of lake mcclure and has now burned 1,300 acres. it's now 20% contained and it's among those battling on the frontlines. several have already been evacuated and roads have been closed at this hour. >> happening today, teachers parents students in oakland will hold a big rally to save one of the biggest charter schools. he will tell us about a very

important meeting and this will decide the future of their school. good morning. parents teachers will be rallying in front of their academy and that's before the school board meeting tonight and they are expected whether to vote tonight. now the five year charter is expiring and that's basically why they are talking about it and why it is expected to be denied. they issued a report recommending a denial declining enrollment and lower than desired performance. the school's executive director has said that enrollment is improve willing and student's scores are a challenge. >> the ap i does not increase steadily because so many come to us from schools where they are with a grade point average.

they would expose students to gangs. if it takes affect, we will try to catch up with folks to see how they are doing with the possible closure. tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 morning news. thank you, tara, it is 6:09 happening today, a treasure hunt is moving to the south bay and they have told followers he will leave them with stuff, stuffed with cash this morning. he said he made a fortune in real estate and wants to give some of his money away. it is between 40 and 50 in cash and they are posted on the hidden cash twitter page. some believe this is all an inn genius marketing gimmick. there were 11,000 followers and we just checked and now it is 129,000 followers and the man

behind said he will have a hidden batch of cash and the twitter account maven wally be sold. time now 6 -- may eventually be sold. coming up, the area police are now focusing on and how residents are being asked to help. and the smith sonian view how they are experimenting with otters and how think expect music to have a positive affect on them. and in many key spots, san mateo looks good and there is still working to do on them the parts that are currently under a red flag fire warning and we will let you know when our

forecast returns to local forecast. my dad worked as a short order cook.

right here. my parents were immigrants. and they taught me that with hard work, anything is possible. i earned a scholarship to mit. and worked across party lines to get things done. i'm alex padilla. i'll protect voting rights for everyone. and make it easier to start a business. so we create jobs and opportunity for all californians. what should we order? (announcer) alex padilla. secretary of state.

. submit sonian -- smith sonian zoo, they are trying an experiment with their otters. this is not a marriage. they are playing music. these are asian otters. they were given a keyboard to

play music with. while otters may never see musical instruments out in the wild this expert is good for their accepts and they are making music. -- their senses and they are making music. secretary of state hillary rodham clinton is talking about her long life and talks about her partnership with president barack obama. she also writes, when making decisions she listened to both her heart and her head. now the book is called hard choices and will be released on june 10th they ordered a 90 day healthcare system which is reporting delays around the country and they are reporting to top countries. right now they are providing care for more than 6 million

active duty personnel. senator chuck hagel wants recommendations on how to make the system better. it is 6:15 and happening now, this this is a live picture of air force one where the president is moving down towards the aircraft and later president barack obama will give the graduation address, he is expected to define his foreign policy goals. he will make interventionists and isolation, they will continue to follow the president's movements and bring you updates throughout the morning on ktvu channel 2 morning news. time now 6:16, the city of san francisco will hold its own

dedication ceremony honoring slain harvey milk. this is his unveiling in the state's district. he was one of the most openly gay officials and he was there less than a year when he was assassinated in 1978. he will join vice-president for the postal service at city hall. wrapper 50 cents after you see this video may not be worth a dime. >> that was not a strike. >> just a bit outside. >> just a little outside they like to say, it was a very ugly ceremony, first pitch after the pittsburgh pirates game. >> he was aiming for the cameras and later blamed it on his alter ego, curtis jackson, i love that he has a sense of

humor about it. >> i think he really wanted torii campbell to talk about him. time now 6:17... >> looking more like nickel back, there is nowhere else to go after that. toll plaza, is that where we are starting? traffic is going to be busy and this is a look at oakland and traffic here on the freeway system is going to be a little bit slow and i have to tell you on 580 at the 980 interchange and it still looks good and you can look at the toll plaza and if you are driving it takes the drive time to san francisco and in livermore you are already slow, you had an eastbound accident which is going to be slow from the interchange all the way to downtown livermore

and after that it is moderately heavy. that is about a five minute drive already. 6:18 let's go to mark. wednesday morning, temperatures have been cooling off especially out towards napa and napa right now is checking in at 44 degrees and lots of 50s for santa rosa, 54 degrees. for today your wednesday this morning temperatures are in the upper 50s at 7:00 and increase in sunshine, increasing winds at 25-mile-per-hour and there is the event wall temperature rapings. not a big change compared to yesterday as you can see a change, up to our north the cool air remains for today and

it moves in this weekend and it will cool off and as i mentioned 20 - 30-mile-per- hour. the wind speeds once again, they are red flag warning in place for all of these areas shaded in red including parts of the salon know coup -- salon know county. showing lots of #0s for -- 80s for vacaville, forecast 84 degrees and showing lots of 70s and these will check in right around 3:00 and 4:00. once again these pick up especially around the coast and increase into the afternoon hours forecast high around 70s and passive can and a half moon bay. and your half-moon bay, we will cool things off by friday and saturday will be the

coolest day of the weekend and we have a chance especially coast side, temperatures do warm back up for the second half of the week. >> thank you, mark, it is 6:20 coming up, an act of kindness aimed at vacaville firefighters after finding out a total stranger paid for their groceries. >> it is a meet grinder. drivers and motorcycleists agree. next a plan to keep everybody safer on the roads.

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. time is 6:24 it seems donald sterling changed his mind and his client is going to fight to the bloody end and has a vowed to allow her to negotiate the sale. sterling was in shock at first and that's why he made the agreement but he is now feeling more feisty. she is moving quickly to try and sell the team by the end of the week and they are looking to strip the team from the

sterling family after his racist rants. there are more motorcyclists and cars than ever before. they are blaming it on lane splitting. >> oh,oh, my g-d... >> i don't know if you know this, it is legal for cyclists to cut between cars here in california but they don't know that and get really angry so chp has a program to educate drivers and motorcyclists say it may be paying off. >> what i have noticed on lane splitting people are not as aggressive as they used to be. >> not all are intentional, and drivers are on the phone and they are not paying attention to what is on the road around

them. and the owner sees how well it is going. voters should decide to use bond money to help them. he spent ten years for service in iraq and afghanistan and he used alcohol in which as to cope with the pressures of being a gay man in the military. now he found a temporary home at an emergency shelter and he said he is finding it hard to find a job since he came home. >> it means nothing when you can come back to your country, my country and there is nothing here to help us. >> he and other veterans say if the proposition passes it will help them finds homes and jobs and make the transitioning back

into civilian life easier. it needs to be rewrit inn because of inn equities. there will be a press conference and rally to help thousands of young people on the streets of san francisco. it is helping an estimated 3500 young people in the city struggling to find a place to live. 6:27 now firefighters are facing another challenge, the shortage now hitting our best weapons on dry brush. people have been showing dry brush and now it is san jose's turn to help us find

what is behind this local treasure hunt. 101 still looks good but not all looks good, we will tell you where it is slow. 44 degrees in napa, we will tell you what will hit the lower 80s this afternoon.

gridlock. teacher layoffs. and a 60 billion dollar budget deficit. that's what john perez faced when he became speaker of the california assembly. so he partnered with governor brown

to pass three balanced budgets, on time. for the first time in thirty years. today, the deficits are gone and we've invested an additional 2 billion dollars in education. now john perez is running for controller, to keep fighting for balanced budgets. democrat john perez for controller. . alex savage is there now and we have the latest coming up on an investigation. welcome back to ktvu channel 2 morning news. i am dave clark. >> and i am torii campbell in for pam cook.

mark is in for steve paulson, nice day out there? >> yes, winds will be taken and it is that time of year. oakland 50, concord checking in at 54 degrees and we are on track to reach lower 80s this afternoon and we will be 82 degrees and san jose checking in at 54. here is the forecast for your wednesday out there. 7:00 upper 40s to the upper 50s and by lunchtime 72 degrees afternoon temperatures range and the eventual range coast side, warmest locations and wind speeds do pick up around 25-mile-per-hour and here is a look at our forecasted highs and as i mentioned santa rosa 85, san jose 89 and 83 degrees. we will take a look at your

weekend forecast and sal is standing by with your traffic, sal? we are looking at traffic which is getting busier by the moment. a 21 minute drive to the mcarthur maze still on the good side, no problems at the bay bridge toll plaza and we are looking at a delay 30 minutes or 30 minute drive time into san francisco with no major problems. it is up to his old bad tricks, to the center of livermore by the time you reach dublin and your drive time is elevated. the last time we saw it, it keeps growing and growing. let's go back to the desk. all right, it is 6:32 we have some breaking news, an award-winning author, poet and civil activist has died.

they told the north carolina television station she was found unresponsive. she recently canceled an appearance and was 86 years old and did have a connection in san francisco. in her teens she dropped out of school to become the first african-american cable car operator. she has had an amazing life including being a poet and speaking at the president's inauguration. once again, we are getting reports that poet and author has died at the age of 86. a gas station just off of interstate 880 is a crime scene

this morning. one man including a car gunned down somebody and they are now searching for the shooter and gunman. >> reporter: they left one man dead and a second man who appears to be an innocent bystander was wounded that second person was walking through the parking lot last night. at the least five shots were fired around 9 and police say the shooter fired into a car that was parked near one of the bumps and police say he was

poply there. >> unfortunately we don't know what the motive for the shooting is at this point. they are still working on the case and i imagine that is forthcoming but right now we don't have a suspect and we have some leads to follow up on and they are doing that right now. >> reporter: the man who has been killed has not been identified and they don't have a description of his killer who remains on the loose this morning. they are planning on checking some of the surveillance video to see if they can show what happened and in the meantime there were quite a few to help out investigators and there were solid leads they are working on right now. in vallejo ktvu channel 2 morning news. they are focusing on whoever killed a father of three in oakland two years ago. >> this can happen to anybody,

it can be your son, your husband your dad, any one of your family members, it will not stop. >> 30-year-old ronnie kid was shot in west oakland. he was driving home from a double shift, they have little to go on and not each a description to go on of the shooting. they hope somebody will help. >> as many as 20,000 turned out for a memorial service honoring the six victims. the stadium on the school campus was packed for a tearful memorial and attribute for the six students last friday.

fellow students and also the father of one of the victims... >> this situation has gone for too long, we all know it and how many he more people are going to have to die in this situation before the problem gets solved. >> the father, richard martinez asked the crowd to join him and stand against gun violence and they all stood up and shouted not one more. and students will father not next da not next to it. we have the latest on our website which includes more about the gunman and the bay area victims. look under hot topics.

a i stand chiefs -- assistant chiefs have been suspended for their role in a suspected drunk driving incident involving a firefighter who hit a motorcyclist while driving a fire truck. it shows the fire department rig hitting a motorcyclist at the intersection of 5th and howard. it suffered serious injuries after hitting the man. michael quinn has since resigned and several hours after the crash was well a above. they are discussing safety in a particular neighborhood. it is on sick more -- sick

moore where it is notorious for crime and gun play. they want to make the area safer and others include more recreational activities. it is about the focus of a treasure hunt and it has already made people in san francisco a lit richer. he is moving his operations throughout downtown san jose and we have all speculated and we don't know where the cash is going to be hidden. so far he has not left any clues on giving away money in san jose. the man known as hidden cash

has been leaving cash stuffed in envelopes. he told them he wants to give some of his money away and it is also part of a social experiment experiment. yesterday he left clues on twitter and the palace of fine arts but he used obscure locations for example taping it to a parking meter and people in san jose shared their thoughts. >> i think he is probably some do gooder and he is making a lot of random people happy so

good for him. >> reporter: but some people think it may be a clever marketing gimmick and we just checked, he is now up to 30,000 followers and you can see it has grown actually over the last several hours by several thousand followers and some people think it's going to be sold because it has a good base of followers. coming up, we asked people do they even care and you will hear from them coming up, reporting live janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. time now 6:41 hundreds of dead fish lining the shore, it is a popular spot for camping and fishing, and it's carbon-

monoxide : they can't keep up with the demand. now the goats eat dead and dry vegetation which ultimately reduces fire risk. coming up, we are continuing to cover breaking news from 10 minutes ago, maya angelo, we have more coming up on her bay area connections and what happened today in a courtroom in los angeles. >> they may be forced to close, we will tell you why and how parents teachers and students are handling it. we have slow traffic

already, we will tell you more about this south bay commute and some of the east bay troubled spots. in the clear, coming up, we will tell you what the next cooling -- whether the next cooling trends continues.

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kindness they plan to pay it forward. they went grocery shopping when an emergency call forced them to leave all the grow are yous behind -- groceries behind only to find an air force wife paid, instead of keeping the money they plan on putting it to good use and tonight they will host a charity on a nearby base. the oakland charter school is set to be decided. they will have to find a new school if the board plans on closing tonight. tara moriarty joins us from the school to let us know there is still a fight to try and keep the school open, good morning, tara? >> well, parents, teachers and students will be rallying at the academy here. they are fighting to save their

school because the five year charter is expiring. the oakland district is recommending outstanding debts to the school district and lower than desired perform fans. one parent said it would be a tragic loss -- tragic loss for the 240 kids who attend. >> a lot of these kids would not be going to all of these games, fairy land et cetera. i am praying it gets renewed because this school really is a community. >> reporter: now they say student's scores are a challenge because so many are from other schools and they are two to four years behind and it is located on mcarthur avenue and if the school board votes, it could take affect in about a

year. we have reached out for the school and we will let you know what we hear back. >> thank you, tara. >> now let's take a look at what is coming up on 2. a newborn just hours old snatched by a fake nurse are now being called heros. it is designed to help you be on hold and they are not hitting store shelves and much more on the breaking news this morning and the death of maya angelo the poet who has achieved worldwide fame. we will get you where you need to go, sal, how are the roads looking? >> they are okay, traffic is getting busier and we will start at the toll plaza and showing 880 and then we will

lead to the toll plaza and when you do get to the toll plaza, it is a 30 to 35 minute delay, 880 is also slow approaching the maze. i mentioned slow traffic from 238 as you head down to the 880 interchange so traffic is between the 25 minute drive time between 238 and thornton avenue, let's go to mark. most of the bay area, clear this wednesday morning, lots of 40s as you can't see the cool air and one of the cooler spots, that just went on by and get ready to go for the school start in the short-term, take a look at the sunrise, still lots of clear skies, forecast

sunrise, clear and breezy definitely more clouds and that's a saturday morning and some high clouds to our south and we also have to cool things off not for today but this will be the source of cooling things off by friday and return of of the wind speeds to 30-to-40 miles per hour. the eventual temperature range will be from the 50s from the green contour and the warmest locations inland approaching lower to mid-80s. we will show you the numbers santa rosa 85, san francisco 70s and wind speeds will pick up with white caps off the

shore looking out towards the afternoon hours 79 and lower to mid-80s out towards them and it really kicks in friday with partly cloudy skies definitely more clouds on friday and that will be the coolest day of the week especially on the coast first thing saturday morning if you want the warmer temperatures for the weekend, keep your eye on sunday and sunday back up into the lower 80s. we will have more on the 7:00 hour on mornings on 2. it has now been three years since that catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in japan, how it's still affects us thousands of miles away. >> it is not a year, one senior prank here which is getting a

lot of attention.

. welcome back time now 6:54 a couple who found a treasure trove of gold coins has a glimpse of how much money they will see soon. one of the coins sold for

$15,000. the husband and wife found more than 15,000 of those gold coins and the money will be donated to the mint which they will turn into a museum. they plan on selling the rest of them to the highest bidder on amazon. senior pranks, they arrived to be surpriseing site and under the digital message board they read for sale. it meant to symbolize the class 2014 and this is pretty tame compared to some past pranks. >> apparently it was not a student that master minded this prank instead one of the mothers came up with the idea and said she was happy to help

as long as her daughter did not get into trouble and now they are working on more pranks to carry out. new gun control ordinance, details are expected but we are already hearing required gun sales to be videotaped and it's meant to reduce instances to require guns to end up with the buyers. the mayor says strict laws are expected to keep illegal guns off city streets. and the lawyer for garcia said his client only talked to the 12-year-old boy she said bullied her daughter. a 10-year-old witness said he saw the boy put his own hands

around his neck. but a 10-year-old sheriff's deputy did not believe him. she has not been charged but is due back in court. the jobless rate is now less than 4-point 5% compared to the state rate which is 4% higher. that makes it harder to find people who want to work in service and manufacturing jobs. it is a completely new version, this one does not have a gas pedal or steering wheel. instead, there is a new button they can push and the front bumper is actually two feet of foam. the car cannot go faster than 25-mile-per-hour and there will

be 100 prototypes. >> and the average high for ceos, according to them, the average highways $10.5 million and it is the first time the average reached 8 figures up 8.8% from 2012. we have sad news breaking news, the death of maya and jello and we -- angelo and we will talk about her ties to the bay area. stay with us. t here. my parents were immigrants. and they taught me that with hard work, anything is possible. i earned a scholarship to mit. and worked across party lines to get things done. i'm alex padilla. i'll protect voting rights for everyone. and make it easier to start a business. so we create jobs and opportunity

for all californians. what should we order? (announcer) alex padilla. secretary of state.

reems. >> reporter: gunfire in the middle of a busy gas station parking lot in vallejo last night leaves one man dead and a second man wounded. why police believe one of these victims was just an innocent bystander. >> reporter: we're live in san jose, where a treasure hunt will be happening sometime this morning. we'll tell you why cash is being hidden throughout the midcity