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. a storm quickly turned deadly and we will show you the major damage left behind. some bart riders may face -- riders may face delays, we will let you know as the ktvu channel 2 morning news continues. thisthis is ktvu channel 2 morning news. right now crews are out in the water and coast guard did not get a -- coast guard got a distress call and they are now searching for the people who may have jumped off this boat and we will have more information in just a couple of minutes and you can see they are out there waiting to find out what will happen with this boat and the people who are on board. it is monday august 4th, i am dave clark. >> let's talk about weather and traffic.
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should i look for my umbrella. >> it is close, and a lot of this is heading in our direction, a zig instead of a zag, mostly cloudy, drizzle is possible, and we have a better opportunity tonight into tomorrow and the key is the upper low if it starts to wantel -- would wouldn't. hobble. and everybody is within a couple of degrees of each other and they are gusting at 28 and west winds at oakland and napa and we get the sea breeze and the direction they are coming from. in fact the low is driving up towards the sierra and the possibility is one to two inches of rain in the sierra over the next couple of days and it heads back in our
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direction and clouds and low clouds, it is doing this little dance, some sprinkles and tuesday is a better chance, here are 60s and 70s and 80s closer to the water. here is tara. onward because of -- on bart, they are going in eastbound directions and bartells us they have now single tracking trains and we will let you know when it eases up. we have a huge backup, metering lights are on and we mentioned we have a pickup versus a motorcycle back in richmond near the boulevard and we will let you know more coming up. near the oakland coliseum, no incidents to report and it is different in the south bay and
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and it has been stop and go. oop. >> we are following that story and they are looking for somebody who may have jumped off that boat in a live picture. earlier the coast guard got a report about a distressed boat. witnesses claim they saw somebody jump from that boat and right now the boat is obviously beached there in the surf and the concern is that it could be leaking fuel. crews are about to set up some oil bombs there and they are continuing their search. -- oil containment structures. we will have a live report coming up. appear was damaged by fire. it happened in downtown
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martinez and that's where and why more on this fire was so hard to fire are fight, alex? it made it difficult for firefighters to get to. there was quite a bit of damage and that's why you can see behind me and this red caution tape is up trying to get this under control and they are working this fire which started at 11:00 last night at the martinez yes, sir marina and a building on the pier, firefighters had to use several small boats just to access the end of the pier.
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it was too his can i. >> and it is really a challenge to get down to that to be able to put water on that to there. >> this fire did enough damage to cop mice the structural -- compromise the structural integrity to it will remain closed we understand they will be back here at the scene to begin the process of how the fire started. live in martinez, ktvu channel 2 morning news alex savage. they are heading into the peak of fire season.
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they are recommend mening. and he said that is not enough. in november voters will be asked to approve more money and if the file, 4 of the 154 counts have been charged. is the woodside elementary school gives tteachers -- gives the teacher the benefit of the doubt. and right now that boat is beached and may be leaking fuel. brian flores is live in san
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francisco and what do you see and what is going on. >> reporter: you can see the boat, it is a 40 to 50-foot fishing boat and getting pounded by the waves. we understand it was abandoned and the people on board left the ship this morning because it was taking on water. as we go and get a close are look at the ship, again this is a 4 to 5 -- 40 to 50-foot 15ing and again, one person, and we noaa, national oceanic and atmospheric administration how the boat was
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able to catch water and we are looking for more information as we speak but as we take it back here live we see daylight hours in ocean beach and we will gather more . and an apartment is the focus of an investigation after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted. it happened at the lake side apartments. the public bathrooms have a security system for the residents. there are very few details about a suspect but as the investigation goes on they are getting more nervous. >> police found out there are
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registered sex offenders that live here. >> they have more than 20 sex offenders who live near the lake side apartments and that bathroom will stay closed during the investigation. one person is dead, another is still missing in los angeles county. the disasters started in the san bernadine mountains overflowed. thousands of people including 500 children and adults at a church camp are now stranded because of the road closures. the san bernardino fire department said it threatened homes and people nearby were not forced to evacuate. >> they are trying to work to clear the road and when we do that, we will make better access and better search of what is going on.
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>> the person who died was found in a car and was swept into the creek and several other people had to be saved by the aerial rescue team. they expect to be found in that area over the next few days. and a crack was found in the dam. engineers are expecting the dam in the twain heart lake until further notice and the dam was opened trying to ease some of the cracks out there. they are expected to take about two days for the water level to drop below the levels that are leaking. they don't believe the dam was tampered with in any way. and coming up at 6:30 problems uncovered during the first sporting event and what is being done to fix them. plus a half million in michigan warned done use your tap water, the reason behind
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. welcome back 61 -- 6:13 another american is due to flight back from liberia with the ebola virus. she picked up ebola virus in liberia after treating patients there. the second burn with ebola virus is a doctor who helped to treat a liberia man. now nancy writebol will join her colleague dr. ken brantley at university hospital. meantime, a retired american doctor who was working there is in quarentine in the u.s. just a week ago, he volunteered at the same hospital where dr. kept brantley -- ken brantley contracted it. he will stay in isolation for
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21 days and disease officials say there is hope that a vaccine will be available as early as july. police in hollister have identified a homicide victim. police say arian that was taken to a -- police say she was taken to the hospital and she died later. this is the suspect, jose. he may have vanessa is a flores with him -- vanessa flores with him and it is not known if she is being held against her will. they have so called smart guns and it is something only the down they are can use.
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others say it is a mistake to depend on electronics during an emergency. there is no gun dealer willing to offer a smart gun for sale. they are considering a bill today one that will allow family members and healthcare providers to get weapons take an way from at risk gun owners. it was provided in the area where six students were killed. the suspect took his own life and his family had concerns about his mental stability during the ram paint, and they are still waiting and have been
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instruction provisions since the toxic bloom. they have set up stations where people can fill buckets and jugs of purified water but last night the algae letters dropped to levels that are considered safe but the mayor is not taking any chance. >> i have instructed our people to resample and retest because i am not going to take any chances with this commune -- community. more testing is expected later this morning. the first of the signs goes up tuesday in richmond and more will be installed over the next few months. the department of transportation said signs will be turned on next year and will
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flash information about traffic accidents and travel times. these signs are part of a smart corridor project. president barack obama celebrates his 53rd birthday today. he has several close door meetings. he played a round of golf and he is now 53 years old. >> 53. and we are experiencing 10 to 20 minute delays because of equipment problems and this affects, mill bray and eastbound directions and this is due to a running problem. we will keep you posted. metering lights are on and it looks like it is text tending towards mcarthur maze and things are going on, on the san
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rafael bridge. we are expecting big backups and this is westbound near the raceway. finally this is a look out as you make your way towards foster city. and further west better opportunity. some rain is off the sierra nevada towards the mother load and right now it is mainly staying out of here but low and high clouds, humidity factors even though it will be more and
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it drifts back towards us and if that one forecast model does that, that will put us in line for rain and there is a lot of rain and i have seen one and a half to inches. and there in lie is the forecast on this. 50s and 60s on the temperatures and most of this will stay very close, 579 gilroy and the breeze is okay for some, mainly
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west and the tell the breeze shows parts of southern california rain and it is all staying out to the valley and some of that can sneak back in here. some light rain, breezy at times, low clouds and fog and these have definitely come down a little bit semolina 84 degrees, brentwood 84 and alameda and berkeley 87, and again lot of these are -- a lot of these are cloud driven and it will feel hot and after that, it is starting to clear and it is warm you can up jokes
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near and it might have appealed to them based on earlier purchases. and and the feature will make it more competitive with amazon. they are getting the words out for faulty ignition switches. gm is taking claims for pedestrians who were killed by one of theee if he can -- defective cards and u.s. uv but think already add mid-that could go why higher than the chp. and why a map walked cable
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national parks near path rays brought in $496 million and almost all national parks are closed during the government shut down during last october. room. >> this is a very special area. the week long camp for kids between the ages of 6 and 17, it is free of charge. the campers had a chance to let down their guards and talk with people who were going through some of the very same challenges they are. >> we are getting a way from problems in school and stuff like that, it is hard to like, get around with people who are not like me. >> nobody knows what they go through other than themselves but they find out and they will
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get back to society. >> for a great program, this by the way is the 2nd year this after attempting a high wire walk and there is the photo of him. police spotted him early saturday morning and blocked off traffic to the bridge after ten minutes and he climbed down and was arrested. >> a giant tortous is being reunited with his family. it took two officers to list the 159-pounders after it was spotted on the street and a family claimed the tortous. it is actually i will legal and
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and despite that, it is coming close to shore and a search continues on shore we will bring you the latest coming up. you can see not a lot of traffic there, that is the good news and we will show you hot spots coming up. the bark is worse than their bite, we'll see if any of that makes it here. can't say thank you enough. you have made my life special by being apart of it. (everyone) cheers! glad you made it buddy. thanks for inviting me. thanks again my friends. for everything, for all your help. through all life's milestones, our trusted advisors are with you every step of the way.
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the surf in ocean beach in san francisco and somebody jumped off that boat this morning but first responders have not found anybody yet and there is also a fear it may be leaking fuel. brian flores is out there and we will have a live report and it is monday august th and we have a combination of low clouds and fogs and we have a couple of sprinkles here and most of the rain is staying east of us and south, maybe tonight and tomorrow, i think the low is responsible and that will not happen until later. mostly cloudy and some sun breaks and humidity factors continue to be high even though it has come down since friday and up in the sierra there could be pockets of heavy rain
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and isolated thunderstorms. those can be one to two inches of rain and there is a lot of moisture around. 50s and 60s on the temperatures. froster city, i think i will so some rain and 60s closer to the water, here is tara. we have slow downs and they are 20 minute delays in every direction and we will keep you posted on when those delays are lifted as far as equipment problems. let's look at our maps and we have a slow down in richmond which is 80 westbound and we have a big-rig and it is causing delays and i will keep
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a look at this. you can see the metering lights are on and definitely give your self an extra 20 minutes if you need to get into the city this morning. traffic on the right-hand side, it is a little bit slow going so give yourself some extra time as well. let's go back to the desk. and ocean beach in san francisco, rescue crews are searching for somebody who may have jumped off a boat stuck in the surf. right now that boat is tilted and taking on water and it may be leaking fuel as well. right there in ocean beach, what is the very latest, brian. and as daylight approaches, you can see it is getting pounded by the waves at ocean beach and we are half a mile south, it is a 40 to 50-foot
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boat a stuck on the shoreline and crews continue to look for one person believed to it be the captain of the boat and he fire crews first got a call and they are taking water about two hours ago and they came to assist. san francisco fire department came from -- came from another boater and now again, witnesses say at least one person may have abandoned ship and the search continues this morning for that person or any other person on board, really. several other crews were here and that includes a helicopter. >> i'm sure it is cold out there. i don't know what the
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temperature is but it makes it dangerous for to us aboard it. >> now that it is light, fuel and oil, there is a little bit of diesel spilling into the ocean and they are collecting whatever hazards are spilling and again, some people out there near the boat, we understand the fire department has cordoned off the area because the fear they are spilling into the ocean this morning. we will give you another update on ktvu channel 2 morning news. and rescue crews had a busy
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weekend most were water rescues on san francisco bay. on saturday, the coast guard rescued them near the bridge. they rescued people who were stranded on the remote shore shrine and they or rested them. >> they are all clear. >> during the summer it is common to get a steady stream of rescue calls. people are out enjoying the weather and before you go out at least tell at least one person where you are going and when you will be back so you can call for help if necessary. and people are defying mandatory evacuation orders and trying protect their homes from an out of control wildfire.
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it has grown to 26,000 acres, still no containment and many more are still threatened. people in the area told the local news station that they are staying home to try to clear any dry brush. firefighters from as far away from month and it in. strong winds fueled it all that waziristan lez -- that diana wasserman-rubin also -- that was also sparked last week. they will secure a federal grant to help cover the fires. it is making the fire season harder than usual. cal fire does not see this many fires until late september.
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and that fire was reported last night on eureka drive near steven son boulevard. it was contained 45 minutes later and no injuries are reported. the fire took about 8 acres of brush. >> it ended with a man trying to get away from the chp. they had to use the jaws of life from the wreckage. he was taken and some will get a chance to watch their team dark some will get a chance to watch their teams practice. joining us now they will talk about what the 49ers management
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observed, janine? well, saturday's soccer managers, there were some gripes, some centered around traffic and others were about food. during the game, some reported that some contexts spans ran out of certain food items. management said they will work to improve that and one of the things they observed is the foot traffic and others were not fond of the bag policy and many it to check them and retrieve them after the game. >> thousands are not familiar with not being able to bring the bag back so we haded to tie it and bag it. i know a lot of people didn't like that experience so we will
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change that. another item on the list including the transportation to and from the stadium, fans complained about long waits and people who live in neighborhoods reported it and they may require more trains. others are getting home on light rails and there is a detention center in only a handful are taken under custody. fans were happy in a much larger stadium and they were asked to be patient. janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. all right, janine, while many sports fans celebrated this weekend and musicians, the
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fire department they spent the last day in the spring of next year. paul mccartney takes the stage for a sold out concert. right now 6:41 a potentially dangerous situation near yosemite national forest, coming up a discovery that has a local community on edge. and badly damaged during an overnight fire, we will tell you the challenges crews are facing and a possible cause. we have an up date and they
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is more on what we are learning about the investigation, alex? >> reporter: the fact that this fire started at the very end of this peer certainly raises some red flags and what we learned was at the see the of this fire -- seat of this fire they found a lawn chair and it is unclear how it got there. and this was an old ferry terminal and now it is a pier where people come to walk and to fish. it was there at the end of the pier but crews were able to save that i understand. they were able to access the under of the pier and help in this fire fight. it was too dangerous and one firefighters fell through the
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charred peer . and because of the fire it has been challenging for us to get close to it. >> the fire did enough damage to compromise its structural integrity. a fire investigator is expected to be here to gather evidence and figure out exactly how this fire started. alex of the savage -- savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. take a look at this new video. this is what they are calling a terrorist attack. somebody rammed heavy equipment into a bus in jerusalem. they shot and killed the person possible and it is a 67 hour
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cease-fire which is due to expire. that cease-fire was meant to allow humanitarian head but 7 minutes after they started they are he can and they are close to finishing its mission of locating and destroying secret tunnels the fighting which began has left many dead. oar i have indeed -- >> i am indeed urging palestinians to come back home. >> hamas which controls the gaza strip vows to continue
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despite the war with the israeli troops. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is under a lot of international players. justice her and in plaza was matched with the palestinians supporters. [ chanting ] >> organizers from the israeli side said there as pro palestinians march every saturday, and they wanted their voices heard as well. they were keeping an eye on the situation be a they remain peaceful before it is found out. they are making national
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headlines. after admitting collecting data for people they are investigating, the technology police are using and the reason it is so controversial. it is also time to add usb drives and a list of things you should never share. a u.s. b port can be used to steal information origin affect your come bash or infect your come pewter. we have problems. we have good news for you and bart said they have been experiencing 10 to 20 minute delays because of an equipment problem but we just spoke to bart and they say it has been fixed and that's good news. we have an overturned utility truck on 85 north of
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the wind chester and it is due backup after this accident. right now we will look at the golden gate bridge and traffic is glowing nicely this morning -- flowing licely this morning and last but not least, this is a look at the toll plaza and traffic is gridlocked all the way back to the mcarthur maze and give yourself an extra 20 minutes to make it into san francisco. let's head over to steve . low clouds fog and really good rain company and if to you get a little lift or trigger mechanism that can help.
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even though temperatures can come down, we will mention clouds most of today and it will be cooler and the better bet will be for today and we will zip towards back here and we can get some dean rain out of it. it is close enough. now the forecast for clouds, you can see they pump in here and there will be a few breaks, high clouds coming back and earl little in the morning and i don't think it will be a lot but there are flash-flood concerns up in the sierra for anybody who can get a lot of rain up there you can get the low to swim and heavy rain.
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50s and 60s on the temperatures and it is cooler than last week and higher elevations have come way down during the 70s. a decent breeze out to the delta out at travis. >> right now they are up in the valley and it is really close and we will mention it here but we will juice things up into tomorrow. so far nothing in the way of lightning strikes but things can get very active here later highs today finally coming down and a lot of these are cloud dependant and it can be warm a lot of the 70s.
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petaluma 74, 84 brentwood 79 in walnut creek and won cord. closer to 81 and 82 and 74 san mateo, 64 daily city, met low park and cloud cover will be with us and i think if i had to take a day, i would take tuesday as we head to the begin being of the week. he is -- escaping how he got away. >> very tense moments why sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man possibly tied to a recent crime.
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. very tense moments in one oakland neighborhood over the weekend. a man may be connected to a home invasion robbery and was shot and killed by an alameda sheriff's deputy. >> shots fired... >> that happened yesterday on 105th avenue. it all started when they spotted a vehicle and the car was reported stolen july 12th
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during a home invasion robbery. the body has an e-convict. his wife and four-year-old daughter and 8-year-old daughter were found shot to death in their shaster county home. his truck was located nearby soon after the killings and no word yet on how he died. surveillance video will catch a man she says broke into her house. you see they smashed a sliding class door, he walked out where another camera captured him and then he broke off on a sedan
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and travelers can brent it and they will also offer self services at eos and -- kiosks and they will do this before expanding to other airports. we are going to ocean beach right now. a live picture, coast guard is searching for somebody who abandoned that sinking boat and the concerns are that boat may be leaking fuel. and working out the kinks what needs to be done before nfl action is underway. we will be right back.
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we are live at ocean beach where a 55-foot fishing boat has run aground as the search continues for the captain. a major fire on the martinez fear. the dangerous challenge for the firefighters as they try to get the names under control. >> reporter: we are live in santa clara, looking at some of the issues that sports fans experienced at levi's stadium over the week. how 49ers' mana
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