construction yard next to the substation. it doesn't appear they were after the power grid but did steal construction equipment like hydraulic equipment. it's not clear how long they were there, we are told there is 24/7 security at this substation. is attributing the breach to human error. >> in our investigation one of the fence alarms did go off and that's something we are looking into, was this properly followed up on. we are working closely with the sheriff's office on their investigation. we are also doing our internal investigation. >> pg and e tells us there was no impact to the electrical grid and no customer lost service. there is concern here because of the attack that happened in april of last year where snipers shot at 17 transformers and cut fiberoptic phone lines

knocking out 911 service. the attack caused more than $15 million in damage and since then pg and e has dedicated $100 million to enhance the security of its substations. those snipers have yet to be caught. pg and e says they do not believe the two cases are related. we'll have much more on this tonight at 10:00. ktvu has cut deeper into that 2013 schneider attack earlier this year. she drove to the metcalfe station, found an open gate and very little security personnel. in fact she actually drove around that station for half an hour before anyone stopped her to see what she was doing. you can watch the report on ktvu.com under hot topics. a quick response from the fire department to protect homes in the north bay. a fire started burning about 3:00 this afternoon.

it threatened homes near the junction of 27 and 39. a helicopter was needed to make air drops. put crews on the ground to protect those nearby homes. there are homeless en campments in the area. those people were all evacuated. we are working to find out how and where the fire started. expect to have crews out there. a 13 and 14-year-old boy are behind bars accused of a series of crimes including the beating death of a family dog. ann reuben is live in san jose where she found out just how these kids were caught. >> an alert neighbor caught the teens in the act but it wasn't until later that police discovered has had happened with the dog. >> police say the boys ages 13 and 14 went on a crime spree, stealing small electronics from one home, a voice of al tieds from another. eric mckenzie noticed a foot

print on his side door where it had been kicked open. >> my daughter said where is sparky. >> they found sparky on the floor upstairs, he had been bulge oned and left dying. >> he was with him perking. >> the golf club used to beat him apparently came from their own garage. they found the teenage suspects had already been taken into custody. neighbors think they are responsible for at least 7 break ins. >> it's horrifying. i cannot believe that kids would have that level of brutality. >> police were horrified, too. some dropped by the house to drop off a sympathy card. >> it is kernel disturbing and -- at this point the juvenile justice system will be taking over and looking into any kind of counseling services they provide and what they do from here with these 2 juveniles. >> they killed a family member. i know that some won't

understand but he was a member of our family. >> and mckenzie's other 2 dogs were locked outside. the family still trying to make sense of what happened. they believe sparky died trying to protect their home. >> nothing can bring back sparky at this point, so i do hope that at least the one that killed him gets punished. >> both boys have been charged with burglary and one has been charged with animal cruelty. police are still trying to determine if there are other victims in this crime spree. the ceo for the company center plate that provides concessions is accused of animal cruelty. the incident was caught on a surveillance camera and we want to warn you, it may be disturbing for some viewers. an elevator camera recorded him repeatedly kicking a dog while it lay in the corner. at one point he yanked the

leash so hard it lifted the dog off the ground. he released a statement. says heying is now on probation. he will do a thousand hours of community service for an animal charity and donate $100,000 to create a charity in the name of that abused dog. as we head into the labor day weekend napa is trying to send a message we are open for business. some tourists need convincing not to cancel their plans. new at 6:00, walker live in downtown where they say 90% of the businesses are open. >> some of the businesses like that hotel there across the street are closed but the businesses that are open are industrial -- still struggling to get people through the door. >> historic napa has a chance

of picture post card moments. >> amazingly they are saying that that building is okay inside. >> today many of the tourist attractions. >> it could have been a lot worse. >> are unintended. >> we haven't been in town 20 minutes and frankly we're stunned at the amount of damage. >> i certainly don't want to sugar coat it. >> craig with the downtown association says while some businesses aren't ready yet to seize the day, and some hotels are still dumpster deep in quake clean up. >> you should check that out, it's a new addition to. >> the message to tourists are positive. >> 90% of the tasting rooms are still open. >> today has been pretty slow. >> they are waiting for the city's well oiled tourist machine to kick in. >> a lot of places are still trying to continue business as usual so that's what we're trying to do like nothing happened, even though it's kinds of hard to act that way.

>> especially when tourists go online and see their holtz is closed. >> the issue is having someplace to stay. >> we spoke with anna via skype. she is traveling from arizona to wine country tomorrow for a girl's weekend. >> being that it's labor day weekend it's so difficult to finds a hotel room. >> her plan b might not include napa. >> everyone was really concerned. >> wedding planner nicole turner is ready. >> should the hotels need to change which they are in the process of changing right now. >> she vows her next napa wedding. >> they are getting next weekend. >> will still be perfect. >> one of the reasons why they hired a wedding planner is we're supposed to stress for them, so. >> so my regular e-mail today from open table where you can book online reservations says book a table in napa today. if you have a hotel booked check and make sure your hotel or bed and breakfast is still

open but i'm assured there are still rooms available in weekend. the clean up work at the control tower at the napa county airport is now complete. crews swept up broken glass and boarded up the tower. it will put out of commission and the federal aviation administration says that could take several weeks. until then a temporarily control tower could be used. there are no other signs of damage but the faa says inspectors will be inspecting that. 4 days after crews still working to restore service to many. repairs were completed today to the relief of owners there. crews from other water districts have been brought in to help. they say old cast iron pipes are being replaced with vinyl pipes making them better suited to with stand an earthquake. stay with us for complete coverage of the earthquake.

we have a special section with slide shows and also information on how you can protect your family in the event of another earthquake. a noose found on the truck after city worker in oak lands, john is live, where that noose was found and john, this isn't the first time it's happened. >> vehicles come and go from this city yard all day. last night workers found a men asking signal of racism here. for the 2nd time in 4 months workers found a noose. dozens of workers did their jobs today under a dark cloud. >> we came in at the end of our shift and we noticed the noose hanging from one of my coworker's truck. >> after what some workers have been years of racial tension this happened last night. >> i was in the back of a pickup truck that was laced back and forth with a noose hanging down. >> we can't have stuff like

this here. if we see it we have got to strike, we have got to stand up. we want everybody to know we are people, too, we are human. we're not going to stand for this. >> oak lands police came in to investigate and collect evidence. >> it was brought to the police department's attention that 2 nooses were found on the property. we take these crimes very seriously and we will be investigating. >> a union representative showed ktvu the other noose that turned up 4 months ago. >> this is something that brings back the times from the 60s and the 50s. i grew up in the south and i was not allowed to go in certain areas because this may have happened. >> came to the yard to talk to workers. he said there will be serious consequences for whoever did it. >> our job is to make sure the workplace is free of intimidation. free of the most outrageous forms of racism. and we take it very seriously.

>> there are surveillance cameras around the courtyard and workers tell me they hope police can use them to find whoever did this. a redwood city man is behind bars accused of a hate crime. investigators say 26-year-old shane patrick cow answer approached 2 men in a parking lot last saturday and began yelling racial slurs. that's when witnesses say he grabbed a cain from one of the men and began hitting them over the head. collins was taken into custody. the men are in their 50s and 60s. they were treated at the hospital and released. what's the best way to care for an american veteran. what a pamphlet says that like ens it to oscar the grouch. now it's become a target for vandals, the new damage and the very expensive cost to

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free legal help is now available in san francisco for undocumented minors facing deportation hearings. supervisor build a program today outside the immigration office. he said the city will provide $100,000 of pro bone oh help for immigrant children who need legal help. there are more than 200,000 children facing deportation proceedings in san francisco without any form of legal representation. >> this country we build, we argue that we are proud to be americans because there is a due process system.

and these children were not being afforded that. >> an estimated 57,000 minors from central america have been caught trying to cross the border since october. this is the first program of its kinds in california. it's expected to help children seeking a i sileum from violence in their own countries. say the state overpaid employees millions of dollars for holidays and other time off during california's fiscal crisis. says an unknown number of employees was over paid a total of $6.8 million and in some cases the mistakes were in data entry. said automated controls could have caught. >> one employee should have earned 8 hours of leave and instead they earned 800 hours of leave for that particular month. >> it's unlikely the state can

recover much of the money officials say because the statute of limitations for claiming unearned wages is 3 years. new at 6:00 an apology tonight from veteran's affairs after the field office like ens dissatisfied veterans to the sesame street character oscar the grouch. it came in a training manual. christian is live now at the va palo alto health care system with a look at how veterans are reacting and local administrators say this is not a training manual they use. >> that's right, they say it appears to have been generated out of the -- office. it appears to be trying to improve. >> everyone on sesame street is always talking about love. >> oscar grouch is identifiable. >> but now it's time to tell you. >> an icon of diskent. now a philadelphia va office

has used his image in a training video. one on how to manage an angry customer says don't get in the swamp with a veteran. >> it's an insult. >> after serving 22 years in the army he has worked for the va for 19 years and said a training manual like that would never fly in palo alto. >> i work in the pharmacy and we do everything we can. >> on the palo alto campus today some of the 6000 workers and volunteers were learning how to improve customer service. says oscar the grouch is not part of that i education. >> it's certainly not representative of what we're trying to do here or throughout the nation. >> he says the effort in philadelphia may have been a misguided approach. >> i think it might have been good intentioned. >> says the va in palo alto has

been innovating for years to try to improve service. >> we feel our veterans receive the best care. so that's the why. then how are we going to do that. are we going to do that by demonstrating respect for people. as for the veteran's affairs office the office has stated the oscar the grouch reference was intended to remind employees to treat veterans courteously and said the -- had been recycled from an old internal document. and ktvu viewers are weighing in on this story on our facebook page, you can join the conversation. it's time to talk about our weather. things started to heat up today. >> let's bring up bill martin. >> looks like the big weather story will be that -- bringing swells to southern california. on friday i suspect we will

have that kind of humid condition we have been seeing a lot of this summer. these are the highs if today, noticeably warmer by a good 5 to 10 degrees. as we head into tomorrow temperatures will be the same or a little bit warmer. as we go into tonight that fog is going to return. it's clear at the coast but the fog is coming back. right now it's pretty brisk on shore winds at the coast so that should be enough to do it. the ridge of high pressure is creating this, so air quality is also getting a little bit hacked up because of the inversion and as we go into the next couple of days the inversion is going to lift. so these temperatures are your overnight lows, 60 in concord, 50 in hayward. fog forecasts for the morning hours, there it is. doesn't go very far inland. so forecast highs tomorrow the reds will be 90s. there's a lot of them, more than today, well, about the

same as today but this is a more aggressive foot print. so 10e9 back into our area. 86 in san -- tomorrow. we're not going to get a spare the air day out of this but you can see more junk in the atmosphere. along the coast you have got upper 60s and even some low 70s, so a nice looking coastal situation the last couple of days, it was sunny on ocean beach today. warmest day will be tomorrow, or should be. might see some mid-90s and then friday that's when the clouds from that dying tropical storm come north and that could bring some increased humidity, maybe a thundershower, but we'll watch that closely, that's the day of change and then saturday and sunday as we go into the holiday weekend, game on, it should be perfect as a matter of fact. but temperatures just cooling off ever so slightly as we head toward the weekend.

>> and that does look like a great weekend. thanks, bill. san francisco police are investigating a case, a new case of vandalism in gold an gate park targeting the webster grove. a vandal used a rock to try to remove names en graved on stone memorial panels in the center of the grove. this is the second case of vandalism in less than two weeks and in both cases trees have been cult down and benches destroyed. coming up the as in astros battle it out in houston in the final game of their series. and sanford gets ready for its opener this weekend, mark is coming up in sports.

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mark is here now talking about some baseball, the as in progress and every game is really important now for the as. >> they are playing one of the houston astros, one of the down teams but when they play the as it's like they have already arrived. again tonight down in houston texas, the astros are playing the as very tight. there is no score on the bottom of the 4th. play opportunity here. but look at that double play as gregorio pet eat and then the turn beautifully done by the astros all star second basement and no score. drew pitching right now for the oak lands as, meantime we have college football a. lot of people pumped up for that this weekend. cal and stanford both in action. one of the things you have got to watch out for is stanford they will play uc davis and of course lurking next week is usc, so attempting to overlook

the aggies, they can't let that happen and one guy who is very aware of that, senior quarterback kevin hogan, well aware of what it means to play the aggies first. >> you have to respect them. at the end of the day they are college football players and anything can happen. we know the people are going to be looking forward to that game. but i don't really see that in the locker room so all of our focus is on them. we're not worried about how they are projected to do. it's our first game and we want to come out strong. >> you are going to be seeing the last of the roster moves as we approach opening day a former raider defensive line man, 33 years old entering his 11th year in the league was released by new england last week, signed today by arizona. of course the cardinals have the big injury with their all pro darnell docket out for the season. 49ers and raiders will be

making their final roster cuts probably friday or saturday so lots of movement in the nfl. college football this weekend. you got it. tonight at 10:00 we are working to learn more about the break in at metcalfe substation. the new questions it's raising about security there one year after a sniper attack that has never been solved. that story and more tonight at 10:00. on facebook and twitter. thanks so much for joining us. good night. female announcer: through labor day at sleep train,

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