p.m. shifting through the ashes, people find what is left of their homes after a fire ripped through two apartment buildings last night leaving 33 homeless. hello. i am frank somerville. >> and i am julie haener. >> investigators are zero in now on what sparked the fire. ktvu's john sasaki joins us live -- joins us live with the suspicious find that could help lead them to the cause. >> most people heard it, the sound of fireworks. but today all they could do was collect their things that survived. >> reporter: a difficult journey to take. back into your home in the wake of a major fire. [ indiscernible ] >> he returned to his apartment building with last night -- building where last night's

fire occurred. [ indiscernible ] . >> reporter: he had little time to get the family out of the building. >> my mom, 97-year-old. and the woman 55-year-old. >> his daughter-in-law and a baby. no one among the 33 people displaced was injured. now they are removing all they can salvage. the two booms caught others by surprise as well. >> i heard two bangs. like fireworks bangs and then we went to the kitchen and we saw the smoke. >> we found signs of spent fireworks and that is one thing that has investigators interested. >> the fire is an active investigation. we are not labeling it suspicious. citizens reported hearing large bangs -- large bangs. >> some are saying in a red cross shelter but he and his

family were not comfortable there so they are staying in a hotel. john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. grounds crews at levi stadium spent the day ripping up the new million dollars field after practice cause cut short yesterday because players were slip -- practice was cut short yesterday because players were slipping. ktvu's ann rubin is hive with the risk the team is taking replacing the field so close to sunday's game. >> this is a major undertaking. while it is not uncommon, it is uncommon to do it in a stadium this new. >> this is what the field at levi stadium looked like this morning. by afternoon, this was the view. the majority of the grass installed in april had been partnershipped out. the -- had been ripped out. >> during practice seeing players slip. >> reporter: 49ers coach jim

harbaugh cut practice short yesterday after turf began coming up in clumps. the field had only be used for a handful of events and one pre- season football game. he says keeping that field if it wasn't functioning properly would have been a mistake. >> they are doing the right thing. keeping the players safe. and giving that stadium the field it deserves. >> replacing a field isn't unheard of and be bringing in sod with deep roots it could be done quickly. >> the league has done it for playoff games many times. i am not worried about the field being play ready. just, like i said, it is not cheap. >> the 49ers are tight lipped about the process but said we determined the appropriate measures necessary to have the field ready for sunday and fans hope it will be ready. >> i understand. these are highly paid athletes

and they don't want them injured. at the end of the day i understand it. >> very drastic but the crews are on top of it and i think they will get the job done. >> reporter: no word on when it will be finished but time is running out. the 49ers host the san diego chargers sunday at 1:00 p.m. live, ann rubin, ktvu channel 2 news. >> and you can watch the 49ers as they take on the san diego chargers sunday on ktvu. our coverage begins at 12:30 p.m. with all access pass, levi stadium. and then stay with us after the game for the point after. new at 6:00 p.m. he spoke about a lawsuit he plans to file on behalf of the family of a man shot to death by san francisco police. he was killed back in march after a confrontation with police officers. police chief says the officers opened fire after he pointed a taser at them that looked like

a gun. he questioned the credibility of the officers. >> we never accepted this notion he pointed a -- the taser at an officer or did anything that created the impression the officer was in danger. the officer over reacted to the circumstances and shot and killed him. >> he said activist plan to march tomorrow to the federal courthouse where the lawsuit will be filed. authorities say the discovery of two bodies may be a murder-suicide. relatives of the 61-year-old man came home to find him shot to death in the backyard and when police went next door during their investigation they found his neighbor dead of a gun shot wound. it happened yesterday afternoon in strawberry. deputies have been searching the homes today. a rifle was found near one of

the bodies. >> it was around 1:00 p.m., and i heard a loud banging noise. sounded like a gun ashot. >> one neighbor -- gun shot. >> one neighborhood one man lived with his wife and son and the victim had begun staying with his parents and there are reports of loud music coming from the home late at night. san francisco police say this man is a person of interest in a brutal beating where a man was found unconscious on the street and later that man died from his injuries. bryan higgins arrived at san francisco general hospital without a name. by the time his family found him they had a little time to say good-bye before he was taken off life support. ktvu's david stevenson is live in san francisco with the new video police hope will lead them to bryan higgins' attacker. >> reporter: some of the people we shown the video to said the

man seemed familiar. police are hoping it will generate new clues. >> video taken from a taxi cab shows the person of interest san francisco police are searching for in connection with the death of bryan higgins. >> oh, my god. >> release of the video today drew strong reaction in the castro district. bryan higgins was found unconscious august 10. [ indiscernible ] >> my god. i hope they find him. seriously. it is horrible what happened. i mean, he did not deserve that. >> bryan higgins is blacked out in the video. the suspect is a white male wearing a gray sweatshirt and a red shirt underneath it. >> you see the victim running on the street towards the cab. then run across the front of the cab with the suspect or the person of interest following behind. >> he does look familiar.

>> friends held a vigil wednesday. reminders his death is still a mystery. businesses say the block has been unsafe for a long time. >> they need to get together, have a meeting and go to the city and talk about it and go look. we need help. [ indiscernible ] >> it hopes it may lead it answers. david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. police say they are trying to determine why a man fell off a freeway freeway over pass yesterday, he was then hit and killed by a big rig. police say they are classifying the case as a death investigation because they cannot rule out homicide. initially it appeared to be a suicide but investigators say they have been told a man the

man was walking with a woman when someone approached them and threatened them. that woman ran away and the man may have escaped over the railing. the body found in kings canyon national park is the body of a bay area teacher missing since sunday. he went backpacking alone sunday and never came home. his wife reported him missing. he leaves behind a 5-year-old daughter. he appears to have fallen in rocky and steep terrain. they found his body yesterday. he was identified last night. robin williams has been layed to rest in the bay area. a death certificate says robin williams was cremated august 12. his ashes were scattered in the san francisco bay. it does not list a cause of death but said the cause is a

pending investigation. police said robin williams committed suicide august 11 at his home. democrats say they will support a plan by governor jerry brown to provide legal help for unaccompanied children. the governor wants to fund non- profits that offer help to immigrants. kamala harris, leaders said they will fund the plan by finding savings in the budget. there are 3900 unaccompanied children in california. >> ripping off dozens of customers in one of the biggest odometer fraud cases in the bay area. >> is california losing the battle against cancer? the new research that points out where california is falling short and what could be done to save more lives. >> back after the break, checking on a warm up as we move towards the bay area

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the aunt of a little girl killed by a hit-and-run driver pleaded not guilty in court today to child endangerment. the 25-year-old cried in court

and asked the judge to release her to grieve but he set bail at $50,000. she is accused of walking her niece into the middle of the street and left her. the driver hit and killed the girl. he said the case should have never happened. >> i don't think it is right to have someone accused of a crime when someone else is outstanding who is responsible for it. >> authorities are looking for the hit-and-run driver. the car is loyalty colored -- light colored, with dark rims and a mismatched front bumper. funeral is sunday and monday. a court updet the first degree murder conviction -- up head the first degree murder conviction of edwin ramos. she was accused in the death of

anthony bologna and his two sons. edwin ramos was sentenced to three connective life terms in prison without parole. his attorney said some evidence should not have been allowed. edwin ramos' attorney plans to appeal to the supreme court. tonight 2 investigates is following develops and serious charnels in a case -- charges in a case of a man ripping off used car buyers. ktvu channel 2 news was there in june when agents arrested the owner of california car sales for rolling back the mileage on cars for sale. investigators called it one of the biggest cases of odometer fraud they have seen. now ktvu's eric rasmussen explains the move that prosecutors made that could put the owner behind bars for a long time. >> reporter: anything to say

for yourself? >> reporter: when 2 investigates caught up with him in june he pleaded ignorant. >> reporter: are you rolling back the odometers? >> i don't know what you are talking about. >> now they will have to answer to 79 criminal charges. just filed by the contra costa county district attorney's office. prosecutors say he bought high millage cars and then the odometer were switched out. in addition to rolling back odometers they are also accused of grand theft and perjury for reporting false mileage. they are also charged with illegally possessing steroids. >> somebody finally got him. >> reporter: she is one of 13 people who contacted 2 investigates over the last two months. she among those who say they were sold cars with odometers

that were rolled back 100,000 miles. >> i wish everybody would speak up. if more people spoke up, then we could put people like that out of business. >> today they were still open for business but the dmv could revoke their license to sell cars. they found evidence they sold more than 100 vehicles with odometers that were rolled back. >> never seen a case this big. this is the most significant one. >> today he declined our request for a jail house interview. he is held on $1 million bail. prosecutors say he faces 38 years in prison if convicted on all counts. eric rasmussen, ktvu channel 2 news. and if you have a story we would like it hear about it, e- mail us and we will look into. >> california is falling short on policies to fight and

prevent cancer. despite efforts to incontact laws the report says tobacco control is a weak spot. they are recommending higher taxes and more limits on sales. doctors add the concern is ecigarettes. >> we know that the tobacco exposure is the issue and is the problem we need to reduce and the ecigarettes does provide that in some way but we don't know what the long term effects will be of use of the ecigarettes. >> you can read the report on www.ktvu.com. just click on web links. officials plan to fog for mosquitoes in discovery bay tonight. it will take place in this area. the fogging was planned after several groups of mosquitoes

tested positive for west nile virus tuesday. today was like yesterday except we had a quick burn off today with the fog. yesterday the fog stuck around. the day before that too but today it burned off quickly in most areas. and it warmed up. 90 in livermore today. 87 antioch. 88 fairfield and around the bay 79 hayward. a nice day. good air quality. the high pressure inversion is in place right now. the air is pressing down and so the last couple nights when it was cool we had the inversion was up around 3,000 feet, beyond that and now it is below a thousand feet. you can see that here, see how the fog is contoured to the topography. imagine it at a thousand feet, that is why it is not getting through.

tonight it will lift and we will see fog push inland but not as aggressively as it has been. we are heading for a warming trend. tomorrow will be like today and saturday and sunday you will notice temperatures on the increase. the winds are blowing. 25 miles per hour gusts. winds at sfo 24 miles per hour and temperatures like these. that is what i would expect for this time of day, this time of year. current temperatures. valley. mild around the bay. cool at the coast. tomorrow we have areas of morning fog. slightly cooler in some places because the low lingers. as it taps out of here the high pressure comes back in and sunday, monday and tuesday temperatures elevate. late sunday you will see temperatures into the low 90s. and monday and tuesday we can see mid-90s. back to heat for us. higher fire danger.

we continue the course as it has been. there is the fog. right? 8:00 a.m. yesterday i had fog into here. there it is. tomorrow is like today. a quick burn off. 90s in the central valley. low 90s inland. most of us touching at 90 degrees. not there. 84 livermore. 77 san jose. along the coast, foggy. sun comes through. and the five-day forecast with your bay area weekend in view like this. warmer into next week. i tell you the last three weeks have been really the same. [ laughter ] >> i think next week we will notice heat. >> thank you. coming up next in sports, see how the giants are doing as they take on the cubs mark is coming up next. it makes me happy to go on the computer.

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and they went down quickly. down 2-0. in the resumption of play. couple guys just up ribbertly. they came through. jet -- recently, they came through. paw gone up the -- pagan up the middle and the cubs wind up as winners 2-1. the real game, giants have a 1-0 lead in the first inning. as if the 49ers didn't have enough problems with their players on the field, if you have seen the first two pre- season games you know what i am talking about, now the field is in horrendous shape. those are the chargers in southern california getting ready to take on the san francisco 49ers sunday and that will be on the field you howard so much about -- you heard so much about.

levi stadium getting a replant. the chargers coach seems unphased by what will take place on sunday with the field. >> we take a look at every field we go on the road. players bring a number of pairs of shoes. we will go in our normal routine. it is no different than any other game. >> all right. the mean time they are hopefully not going to have to do that every week. sunday will have a new look. fresh grass. you got to see this foul ball activity at yankee stadium today. your average play. pop fly. into the lower seats and it appear as fan, chris rock, made a good play. upon the replay, he looked scared of the ball. he does the right thing and handing it to a young fan there. chris rock, great hero,

comedian, actor. but can't avoid the attention no matter what. >> nice of him. >> absolutely. that is the sporting life. >> thank you. coming up tonight at 10:00 p.m. outrage over the beheading of the u.s. journalist, how the government is trying to track down the terrorists responsible. that story and much more tonight at 10:00 p.m. thank you for making ktvu channel 2 news your choice for news. we are always here for you on www.ktvu.com and you can follow us on twitter and facebook. thank you for joining us tonight. good night.

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