now at noon -- neighbors near the fire that destroyed two homes in east san jose say they know the cause. a car left in pieces in berkeley sends one man to the hospital, another to jail. plus -- driver be aware. traffic warnings in sonoma as preparations get underway for the big nascar race on sunday. what race officials are doing to try to warn drivers early. sunnyvale police say a manhunt is underway at this

hour for an attempted homicide suspect who triggered an amber alert. they say jose louise va len seep seia -- valencia should be considered armed an dangerous. officers say he hurt his girlfriend. he took his daughter from the home making threats he would harm the child. they issued an amber alert. investigators say they worked with the suspect's family and were able to have the child safely brought to police officers. right now, the suspect remains at large. fire investigators say they determined what caused yesterday's large fire in the hills above above san jose that destroyed two holes. the fire on -- homes. the fire on clayton home near east ridge shopping center. janine de la vega joins us live where there's conflicting opinions about what started the fire. >> reporter: so far fire

investigators are calling this accidental, but neighbors and relatives of the property owners say the homeless woman had taken up residence in one of the out buildings that used to be here. they say they told her to leave but she never did until after the fire broke out. now all that's left is a pile of burnt debris. >> all my memories, all my memories of my greatgrandmother. >> reporter: he spent most of his childhood on this property. there's hardly anything to salvage from the rubble. this cell phone video neighbor shows the fire started yesterday afternoon and quickly spread to the other home. >> all i can see is big black smoke roaring u it looked like it was -- roaring. it looked like it was burning for hours. >> reporter: a woman and her elderly woman who lived in the other house were not home at the time. fire investigators attacked the fire from the air and the

ground. neighbors saw a woman who they believe was squatting there leaving the property. >> i see this girl really walking very fast and it didn't look like she belonged around here. she was dressed up and walking like she was trying to get away. >> that photograph was shared with calfire investigators. they were able to track her down. they didn't go into details and would only say the woman converted an old apricot drying shed into living space and that's where the fire started. >> i've heard that she had something that she was trying to cook in there and that's what we guess happened, that she was trying to cook and something happened, caught the place on fire. >> reporter: the property owner and her mother are staying at a hotel because, again, homes completely destroyed. back out here live live you can

see in the distance there are some calfire firefighters who just arrived here a couple of minutes ago. they are just looking around for hot spots, they want to make sure nothing sparks back up here. we'll continue to follow this story throughout the day. reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. a stolen car suspect is in custody after a tense search of several back yards in an oakland neighborhood. police say they received a 911 call from a person who said their red suv rental had just been stolen. a short time later, officers spotted it and tried to stop it. but the suspect ran off into a neighborhood on high and masterson streets. they prout in the kib, core doned off -- k-9 and cordoned off the area and located the man and tike him into custody without incident. berkeley police arrested a suspected drunk driver accused of running from the scene of a

a -- of a terrible car crash that seriously injurerd another man on tunnel road. the road was shot down for hours in the eastbound direction. police tell us the 21-year-old driver crashed his corvette into a metal barrier and it ricocheted back on the road. he got out of the mangled car and left the scene but police found him nearby. a passenger in the car, a 24- year-old man, was badly hurt and may not survive. the driver was not on scene when we arrived. the passenger was and was treated by the fire department and taken to the highland hospital in critical condition. >> police say the driver was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and dui. a redwood city woman with an extensive history of dui appeared in court today. she pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. she's accused of running over a

menlo couple out for a walk last year. in november, she pleaded not guilty to charges including gross vehicular manslaughter and felony dui. she had been out on probation for a 2012 conviction for drunk driving. she's being held on $2 million bail and is set to return to court in september. jackie speier said she's introduce a bill meant to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of minors. in a news conference at san francisco general hospital today, she said makers of the cigarettes are luring younger people to start the unhealthy habit of smoking. she said flavors like gummi bear and cotton candy are clearly aimed at young people. and she said manufacturers entice children with aggressive marketing. bejewel, hello kiter

appeals to tweeners, not something like. >> this would require makers to put these in childhood pack packing and ban flavorerrings in e-cigarettes. the board of supervisors approved a budget that includes $3.5 million for more programs and additional public safety officers. the largest single increase in the budget is $851,000 to hund a human -- fund a human traffic you unit and there's a budget for $3,000 for additional crime scene investigators for the crime lab. it also calls for $225,000 for a domestic violence program known as the intimate partner of violence task force. a few hours ago, in san diego, governor jerry brown signed the state's $156.4

$156.4 billion budget for the fiscal year. it includes a rainy day fund and is built on increases and surging revenue from the booming stock market. welfare expansion and preschool are part of the budget. some of the fastest cars in racing will be on the track at the sonoma raceway for a big nascar race this weekend. but the action will be much slower for those heading to wine country. brian flores is live with more about the warning for those people even if you are not a fan. >> reporter: it's loud right now. racers getting qualifying and practice runs in this morning before the big race on sunday. definitely exciting for fans. if you are not headed to the track, probably a good idea to avoid the track. it will be very busy this weekend. nascar returns to the raceway

this weekend. loud cars, excited fans and unfortunately tons of traffic. >> don't drive by the track. there's a lot of great alternate routes. >> reporter: if you are not headed to see the nascar races, they say don't be anywhere near the track. with only one lane going in eesm direction on -- in each direction on highway 137, officials warp it will be a headache -- warn it will be a  headache. >> if you travel from sonoma to san francisco, go up 101, from napa valley go up american canyon and avoid this area. >> reporter: they have doubled the times and are handing out maps. there will be extra chp and race parking workers also. >> we used to come on sunday. now we come on friday and saturday and watch it at home on survive. >> reporter: if you are headed

here, get ready for excitement. fast cars and some local talent like 16-year-old james bixford. >> my dad started talking me here when i was young. i fell in love with the sport. >> it's great to have a track 15 minutes from our house. a lot people in the area don't know about nascar. >> reporter: $100,000 fans are expected to pack sonoma raceway. >> you will see a lot of that happen. you will see a car that could be leading and drive their way back up forward. makes a pretty exciting show. >> reporter: definitely exciting for nascar fans if you are headed out this weekend, officials say the time to avoid the racetrack, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. tonight. 8:00 to noon, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on saturday and all day sunday. that's when the traffic will be

heavily impacted. brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. it's been called modern day savely. a new report finds -- slavery. a new report finds there's not enough being done to combat human trafficking. a beautiful day around the area today. rosemary orozco will be here to tell us what's in store for the first weekend of summer. and in one week's time span, the state's drought has gotten worse.

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new details about tracy morgan. he has now been transferred from the hospital to a rehabilitation center. this transfer comes nearly two weeks after he was seriously injured in a car crash that killed his friend, comedian, james mcnair. morgan broke several ribs, his nose and a leg after a truck slammed into the limo bus he was righting in on the new jersey turnpike. the driver of the truck has pleaded not guilty to charges of death by auto. a new state department report adds four more government to the list of countries doing the least to combat human trafficking.

john kerry launched the u.s. assessment of how governments around the world have performed in fighting what is often referred to as modern day savely. the report demoted thailand, malaysia and gambia to the latest rating of tier 3 status. >> it's not an act of arrogance. we hold ourselves to the same standard. this is an act of conscience. it is a requirement as a matter of advocacy and as a matter of doing what is right. >> 23 countries, including russia, iran and north korea are ranked tier 3. president obama has 90 days to determine whether to apply sanctions against those governments. frustrated lawmakers fired tough questions at the irs commissioner this morning. republicans want to know how the agency lost two years worth of critical e-mails in a tea party targeting scandal. kyla campbell explains how the agency is trying to recover

those e-mails. >> reporter: the house ways and means committee said the irs knew a couple months ago it lost e-mails from former employee lois learner but the agency didn't tell congress until last week. >> why didn't the irs notify congress? >> i thought it was important. it was my decision that we complete the investigation so we could fully advise you what the situation was. >> reporter: the irs says the computer crash in 2011 led to the lost of learnerrary emails. the commissioner testified that they back up e-mails but only for six months. republicans say this is a coverup because not only did learner's e-mails disappear so did employees for a handful of other irs employees accused of giving scrutiny to other groups seeking tax-exempt salt tis. >> i'm sitting -- status. >> i'm sitting here listening to this testimony. i don't believe it. that's your problem. nobody believes you. >> reporter: the commissioner

said the irs is working to recover learner's e-mails by compiling them from people who received e-mails from her or sent e-mails to her. he said congress should have about 67,000 of learner's e- mails by the end of this month. meanwhile, an inspector general's investigation is looking into these missing e- mails. in washington, kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. new jobs figures are out today and they show california's unemployment is continuing its steady klee decline. according to the employment development department, the state's economy added more than 18,000 jobs in may. this helped to push the rate down to 7.6% for the month. that's down 2/10 punish from april. california's drought conditions have worseen ised in the -- worsened in the past week. one-third of the state is now being kat gorized as an exceptional drought, which is the worst classification. that's compared to only a quarter of the state in that

classification last week and the entire state remains in what is considered severe drought. a good-looking kay over the bay area on this -- day over the bay area on this final day of spring. temperatures off in some areas. we have the golden gate bridge there in the distance. woke up with low clouds along the coast this morning but those have cleared. high clouds also streaming through at times. we've cleared out pretty good at the moment. we had some earlier this morning, perhaps you saw those as you got out the door early on. for the moment, we're mostly clear. high clouds will be back pass a second batch rolls through. it will be through the evening hours. a ridge of high pressure you can see off the southern california coastline bringing us the clouds at the moment. a trough to the north of us going to be the bigger impact for tomorrow. so temperatures today, a few degrees warmer, especially over the north bay. but for tomorrow, that trough is actually gonna bring our

temperatures down for the first day of summer. the winds are on shore in areas like fairfield. 8 miles an hour, concord, 13 miles an hour and picking up a gust to 21. little breezy seeing over parts of the hill and there at the airport in concord. temperaturewise, though, already beginning to see a pretty big warmup. areas in an around the east bay, 83 concord. head into the north bay, it's a warm noontime in santa rosa, 83. 69 san francisco. along the peninsula, widespread upper 60s to upper 70s. san jose checking in at 79. half moon bay, low 60s but mostly sunny so good-looking day for you as well. the east bay, we've got upper 80s, low 90s in and around walnut creek. pittsburg, 84. 88 for brentwood. saran mown, 84 -- san ramon, 84. to the south, we have 86 for sunnyvale. 69 in fremont?

that can't be right. 76 in foster city. 80 degrees in menlo park. mid-70s for palo alto. afternoon highs today, gonna be a warm one. 85 for novato, as well as napa, sonoma. temperatures ranging in the 70s to low 80 in the east. it's a warm day in livermore, 90 for you. 91 in antioch. these numbers a lot like yesterday for most of us. 83 san jose. 88 for morgan hill. along the peninsula for the afternoon, 80 degrees in redwood city, low 60s remaining along the coast, half moon bay, pacifica and daly city. the extended forecast here with your weekend always in view, summer arrives early tomorrow morning and notice temperatures coming down for the afternoon. mid-80s for the inland cities. low 70s around the bay. sunday slightly warmer and then we just stay put monday/tuesday. a little change in the forecast. hard to believe summer is

already here. >> i know. >> thank you. the man known for many popular hits from the 1960s has passed away. ♪ you make me feel like a >> he wrote natural woman, locomotive and will you love me tomorrow with his then-wife carroll king. he died in his home of natural causes. the u.s. men's soccer team is gearing up for the big weekend against portugal. one of the best soccer players will hear from one member of team usa who says they are not worried about facing renaldo.

well, stocks holding on to slight gains on a light day for economic data. investors focusing on individual shoes. carmax reported strong growth while radio shack slumped. radio shack is trading at 93 cents. and they could delist the stock if it closes below a dollar per share for 30 consecutive trading days. the dow is up 24. the nasdaq is up 3. up 2. san francisco's moscone center is getting a very expensive upgrade and expansion. the is the announced the

$500,000 billion renovation to add more detail and open space. it will be paid for by hotel taxes. construction is scheduled to start in december with completion expected in four years. at the world cup in brazil, the u.s. team is gearing up for a big match this weekend which could secure them a spot in the next round. they are coming off their big win over ban-- on ghana. on sunday, they will go up against a strong portugal team led by renaldo, one of the best players in the world. players on the u.s.a. team thin are not too worried about him. >> we're not really focused on him. we're mostly focused on ourselves. we feel if the u.s. plays our pest, we'll win the game and advance to the next round. >> costa rica is moving on after defeating italy 1-0. that win eliminated the chance that england's team could advance.

the 11-year-old golf phenom lucy li teed this morning in pinehurst -- pinehurst, north carolina. right now she's at 11 over par. that's several strokes off the projected cut line which means it is looking unlikely she'll play over the weekend. another u.s. player michelle wie is the early second round leader at 4 under par. many players are still purchasing their round. tonight at 6:00, the world's ugliest dog contest is scheduled to get underwayant the petaluma fair. online voting closed. it appears that a dog peanut is the crowd favorite after receives the most votes. quasimodo came in second. but the official winner will be announced tonight. we are following a murder trial at this hour. a tourist of san francisco was

lured into the bayview, then shot and killed leaving behind a wife and three children. now three years later, we're hearing verdicts for the four people accused in this case. we'll have more reaction coming up tonight on the ktvu news at 5:00. thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. we're always here for you on ktvu.com and you can follow us on twitter and facebook. have a great day.

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