is misguided. because the state's own public utilities commission has been implemented in too cozy of a relationship with pg & e that led to the disaster. >> we would like to see the cpuc redirect that $950 million and put as much of that as possible into pipeline repairs. the repairs have to be done and we would rather see the shareholders pay for repairs instead of the rate players and that money going into the general fund. >> reporter: now for its part, pg & e which can appeal this decision issued a statement saying we have respectly asked that the commission make sure that the penalty is reasonable and proportionate and takes into consideration the company's investments and actions to promote safety. in all, the company needs $12 billion to upgrade the system.

tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. eight people were killed in the explosion. they include 58-year-old james emo frankel. elizabeth torrez. 20-year-old jessica morales and three members of the bulles family. william, greg and levone. as for today's fine. $950million will go to the state's general fund. 450million is earmarked for pipeline improvements and pipeline safety. now our coverage continues on ktvu.com. there you can see our previous stories as well as more of the scars left behind in san bruno after the deadly blast. we created a special section for you just look under the hot topics? as brutal restroom attack on an elderly man caught on camera. in the video, the attackers claim the elderlyman exposed himself to a child but police aren't so sure. azenith smith joins us with the

story. >> reporter: police are investigating two crimes here the assault and the alleged indecent exposure that happened. this is a popular park and police need to hear from any witnesses. we blurred out the faces in this video. this cell phone video obtained by ktvu shows a father swinging at an elderly man. that father alleges the elderlyman showed his private parts to his son. despite cries from a witness to stop, the father repeatedly throws several punches as the elderly man wails in pain. the unidentified woman in the video could also be told telling the group to call the cops. at one point the father threatens to kill the man. one final blow leaves the elderly man bleeding. he then walks away. >> when they got out to the park, all of the alleged

parties were gone. the alleged victim was also gone. >> reporter: he has limited english skills. they are now investigating if an indecent exposure even took place in the assault itself. investigators say someone called 911 it was not good that the elderlyman was assaulted the way he was. >> we never ever condone vigilianesim. we want them to wait, look at the suspect. keep this in you view. let the people come and handle the arrest. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00 reaction from a park visitor and whohe -- who he believes was in the wrong. a 49ers player was arrest and accused of assaulting his pregnant fiance.

tonight we're hearing from other players and the general manager of the team is weighing in as well. the 49ers had their first team practice today since news broke over the weekend that ray mcdonald had been arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence. christien kafton was in the locker room getting player reaction to the news and tells us how the team's front office is handling the accusations. >> reporter: players geared up for practice getting ready for sunday's match up against the dallas cowboys. tight end vernon davis says he was at ray mcdonald's party where mcdonald was alleged to have attacked his pregnant girlfriend. >> i was on my way out and i saw the cops around. as far as what was going on, i don't really know. i wish i could tell you guys something, but i don't really know. >> reporter: ray was supposed to go to practice but we never saw him at his locker.

san jose police say the invest tkpwaáeugs office is being handed over to the district attorney's office. >> we're working to determine what other investigations need to be done. the district attorney will be making a decision on what if any other charges are to be filed. >> as we said, the truth will come out. as far as i know ray is a great guy. >> everybody on the team knows that. he's a guy of good integrity. good character. >> reporter: the 49ers general manager say it is team is waiting for police and prosecutors to weigh in. with a team leading the league in arrests there are inevitable questions on whether why criminal allegations continue to follow the 49ers. >> i've always believed one is too many. and we're continuing to work to try to figure out what we can do better. better as an organization. better as individuals. >> christien kafton reporting

there. christien also asked if mcdonald would start sunday against the cowboys. he says that decision has not been made but did reiterate domestic violence will not be tolerated by the organization. harbaugh said he would not comment but said if someone physically abuses a woman or physically or mentally abuses a child there's no understanding, there's no tolerance for that. the state is shining a spotlight on how aggressive football can be. and it leads some to question whether players have a hard time turning off those instincts when they're not in the game. we talk to a psychologist about the culture of football who offers up her opinion.

wolf has been a math teacher at diablo valley middle school for the last 12 years. he's out on bail or $1 million bond after the pornography images were found on his computer. the video shows the man believed to be center play ceo heague kicking and choking a dog in a vancouver elevator. more than 185,000 people signed a petition asking center plate to fire him. there's no word if he's be facing any animal abuse charges in vancouver. there's a chilling new video from the terror group isis. another american journalist appears to have been executed and the group threatens there could be more. torre dunn has the latest. >> reporter: shortly before what appears to be steven stofloff's death he spoke on the camera. the masked men on the video

spoke to president obama. >> just as you continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the next of your people. >> reporter: the isis figure also threatened the life of british captive david haynes. soffloff was previously seen in another video. shortly after this video was released a state department spokesperson said the intelligence community is working to confirm its authenticity. >> if the video is genuine we're sickened by this brutal life of one human being taking the life of this american citizen. >> reporter: he was a freelance journalist who grew up in south florida. he traveled to syria to cover the civil war before he disappeared in august of 2013. his disappearance was kept secret by his family fearing that his life could be harmed.

his family said that he had nothing to do with the government and is an innocent journalist. new developments tonight in the ebola outbreak. another american doctor has contracted the virus while working in a hospital in liberia. the doctor was working in a part of the hospital that was not treating ebola patients and they don't know how he contracted the disease. >> there's three key things that we need. the first are more resources. this is going to take a lot to confront. the second are technical experts in health care and management to help in country. and the third is a global coordinated unified approach because this is nothing just a program for -- this is not just a problem for west africa, it's not just a problem for africa. it's a problem for the world

and the world needs to respond. he says despite tremendous effort to stop it the number of ebola cases continues to increase rapidly. human trials for ebola vaccines are continuing this week. it's been said that the vaccine will be given to a small number of adults. in a letter to the white house today the governor said economic impacts of this event will be expensive. the earthquake caused significant damage throughout the region. the governor's office says the presidential major disaster declaration triggers the release of federal funds to help communities recover. governor brown today also issued an executive order to provide additional asocial security -- assistance and to help cut the red tape for those needing help. scientists used a new

satellite to study the earthquake. scientists combined the images to detect changes on the earth's surface. the small changes are shown by rainbow colored fringes on the map. scientists say the extend of the movement suggest that is the fault slip continues farther north than they've managed to map on the ground before. the napa valley quake hit about a week before the peak of the region's prime tourist weekend the labor day weekend. but according to the tourism organization, it didn't keep too many people away. hotels are a key factor in judging any weekend's success. >> definitely had some cancellations which you would expect. but on the other hand, it looks like also that we were very, very full on saturday and we were pretty darn full last night and the rates were at really good healthy rates. >> there was word today that damage from the quake has led to the cancellation of the well known napa artisan's festival. the downtown event was

scheduled for next saturday the sixth. they work in the same building doing the same job. why workers make over a dollar an hour more on one side of this local mall. fog bank is deeper and the winds are starting to pick up. how low temperatures could drop where you live. and there's a 7-year-old rushed to the hospital bleeding the from his chest. how the bay area boy is recovering after an accident with a .22 caliber rifle. [ male announcer ] it all starts with the bread.

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we've learned a 7-year-old boy hurt during target practice in the sierra is from san mateo county. the sheriff department is not releasing his name but we learned that he was hurt at the family's homemade gun range. he was firing with the help of his father when he began having chest pains. >> while the father was right

there with the little boy. he complained of pain in his chest. his father looked down. he had a little hole in his t- shirt and he was bleeding from his chest. >> reporter: the boy may have been hid by pieces of a bullet possibly from a ricochet. the boy was air lifted to a hospital in sacramento and is recovering. we're learning new information about another incident involving a child and a gun this one in arizona. last week you will remember a 9- year-old accidentally shot and killed her instructor while she was firing an oozy. today her father's lawyer says the family is devastated. police reports -r were also released and they report the gun said the gun was too much for her, had hurt her shoulder. prosecutors are not filing charges in this case. the young man was crossing the mouth of drake's in the point rays national seashore. the national park service says the missing man may have been lost while swimming against the

tide. >> they actually were going across. we're talking a couple of hours later, the timing was such that the tide was coming in and it comes in with a strong force behind it. >> the national park service says the search will continue today until dark but if nothing changes the search and rescue could shift to a search and recovery. median joan river social security still on life support -- comedian joan rivers is still on life support: her daughter melissa put out a short statement that didn't offer too many details about river's conditions. still she expressed gratitude for all the support her mother is getting. apple confirmed this afternoon that hackers did gain access to some celebrity i cloud accounts in the stealing of nude pictures posted online.

photos of thousands of stars including actress jennifer lawrence and kate upton appeared on the internet sunday night. hackers targeted security names and security questions. yesterday apple beefed up security by limiting the number of times a wrong password can be entered to five. today is a back to school, back to work update after summer. unfortunately it's unofficially over. >> i think pretty much all the local schools are in. it's business as usual. you can see it out on the roadways. more people driving to work and back and forth. look at that that looks a little bit more like august. more of an august forecast with the fog and low clouds. it's a deep marine layer. you can see it here. you can see how heavy it is in the san francisco bay. the marine layer is going to move up a bit and when it does

it stretches out and gets deeper. all that cool air comes in right over the top. comes in over the coastal hill aepbs temperatures cool. -- coastal hill and temperatures cool. there's the fog along the coast. there's no real weather makers around here so we're not expecting thunderstorms in the mountains or showers here. but we are looking at a ton of fog right along the coast. check it out. so we will come in close and this is the right now picture. you can see the fog is already. that tells you a lot doesn't it. fog is already coming across the gap. shooting this gap. doesn't even have to shoot the gap because it's coming over millvalely, -- mill valley. it's in richmond, it's in berkeley and within an hour it'll be in orinda and in a couple of hours it'll be in concord. everybody wakes up tomorrow morning with plenty of fog. that will keep temperatures cooler than they were today. temperatures today dropped off 10 and 15 degrees from where they were the day before or sunday. saturday and sunday was pretty

warm. cooler again tomorrow by another five or 6 degrees. overnight lows tonight. 59 in concord. 59 in santa rosa. just what you expect for this time of year. everybody has fog when you wake up. here's the computer model for the morning hours. doesn't get everybody but based on what i'm seeing across the coast, you're going to see fog down in morgan hill. you're going to see fog in pretty much all nine bay area counties. burns back and then temperatures not like they were yesterday. but more like they were today and even cooler. the 90s still exist but they exist east of the bay area. east of most of our cities. we're going to see mostly 80s. mid-80s and low 80s tomorrow with lots of 70s around the bay. in and around the coast it's going to be tough getting out of the 50s maybe some drizzle as well. there's your forecast. that's wednesday right. we're already to wednesday. a lot of folks had the day off. this is the mechanism for stretching out the marine layer. upper 80s might see a little bit of drizzle and strong sea

breeze. so that's wednesday. thursday temperatures are going to kind of be about the same. but then we're going to warm and there's no heat wave coming our way at all. this pattern, the firefighters can take a bit of a relaxing break. and other words they're not on high edge because this pattern doesn't really, isn't super promotable for fires. everyone though you get them right. we had one today on the east bay. the humidity is high. temperatures are cooler. it's amazing what humidity does to fires. you put some moisture in an area in that fire. you know what you did. you noticed it overnight. temperatures dropped when you have a big fire. when those temperatures drop and those humidities come up temperatures, the fire really tends to sit down. there's your five day forecast with your bay area weekend in view. yeah, just a nice one. a good one. >> when do we start looking for real rain? >> i'm looking all the time right now. but i would say, i would say it's going to start raining in the middle to end of october.

we could see something before then. but we should get about an inch and a half. >> not soon enough. >> thank you, bill. a school rushing to repair their lights after someone stole cooper wire and we've learned of a second arrest. we'll have a live report from the school on the repairs there tonight. >> and how much you make depends on which side you're on. we'll explain the bay area mall with an unusual problem and how some shop oners are -- owners are trying to make the best of it. >> research that could help predict an earthquake before it happens. why the mission to map the san andres may be in danger. >> plus fees that could cost more than your car. why theft victims are forced to pay thousands of dollars after their car is recovered. these stories and more coming up on the news at 6:00.

it was a big surprise for fire crews in montana when they ran into two lion cubs. that's when the second cub went tumbling down a hill. that's couldn't find the mother so both cubs were brought to a wildlife rehabilitation center in helena. they appear to be okay. it's not clear when they will be reintroduced to the wild. workers at a bay area mall are doing the same thing but they're paid differently based on what side of the mall they're working on. it's an unusual problem that exists at the fair mall. see the west side is in santa clara, the east side is in san

jose and those two cities have different minimum wages. >> when we offer people job, and they say we got a job at the other side of the mall. >> reporter: the difference was most noticeable two years ago when the san jose minimum was $10 and santa clara is $8. the wage gap closed a little last month when the santa clara minimum wage increased to $9. but san jose's is now $10.15. some stores actually straddle the boundary between the two cities and they decided to pay the higher wage. other retailers have stores on both sides of the mall and their workers work one week in san jose and the next week in santa clara. people are being warned that flames could burn right up to their homes. about 250 homes are under

mandatory evacuation orders. it's expected to reach the community of hanburg. more than 66,000 acres have burned and the fire is just 15% contained. netflix is giving users more control over how they share their viewing history on facebook. starting today, netflix subscribers can select which facebook friends can receive that information. previously, users could only share their netflix experience to all of their friends. that included coworkers and followers that may not even be their friends. it's all because of stolen cooper wire, we're learning of a second arrest in that case tonight -- a school is rushing to repair lights and it's all because of stolen copper wire. the guidelines a mother wants and the one incident with

a flight attendant that drove her to do more. >> there's an old saying that there's no such thing as a free lunch. the perk thousands of bay area workers enjoy and the debate about whether or not it should be kept.

rushing to make repairs after the lights are damaged at a bay area high school all because of cooper thieves. the high school is scrambling to make sure a high school football game happens on thursday. john sasaki joins us from san ramon high school where authorities have made two arrests. >> reporter: the school just started a week ago, and they're already dealing with a big headache. police arrested 41-year-old damond carson and his arrest led to the search of his home. they also arrested jason sprague for alleged possession of stolen property and for being under the influence of drugs. the school's freshman team is can -- scheduled to play a

game on thursday night. police would not have made the arrest were it not for a witness with a description. >> they were at the bleachers. they found the person, they found him in the act of stealing it. >> reporter: i talked with the freshman football coach off camera who told me he had not everybody heard about the crime. off camera, the district says they're working to fix the lightening. but if they don't finish, the game will be played during the day. it happened around 3:00 in the morning inside the smith robinson gym, cooper thieves are accused of starting a fire. gym classes as well as a volleyball game scheduled for tonight are being moved to other gymnasiums near by.

it was reported at the beginning of this newscast, there's no decision as to ray mcdonald will be allowed to suit up for this sunday's game after his arrest over the weekend. the niners had their first team practice today since mcdonald was accused of assaulting his fiance at a party. he was arrested but no charges hav -- have been filed yesterday. team initials say domestic violence will not be tolerated but are waiting to make a decision until after the trial. and if football players are role models should they be? ktvu's john fowler on whether we should be surprised about players who get in trouble. >> go, dominate on three. >> one, two, three. dominate. >> reporter: experts tell me the 49ers are not that unusual, football itself is under a microscope. attention now on a handful of players accused of off field criminal behavior including assault. >> we celebrate the aggression and the violence on the field.

>> uc berkeley sports culture professor derick vanrimen. >> sometimes it's not that easy for these players to turn that off. >> reporter: more problems hitting soldiers and athletes both on and off the field. >> football is a warrior sport. >> reporter: psychiatrist mark leavy. >> the mind set of being on combat is very similar to the lines man. >> reporter: and players are known as are soldiers to suffer traumatic brain injury from repeated blows to the head. >> these people are prone to developing post-traumatic stress disorder after having all kinds of emotional problems that are related to the physical trauma. >> one, two, three, win. >> reporter: that may help explain but does not excuse bad behavior. after the ravens ray rice domestic violence case in his two game suspension, the team

vowed to get tough. now that creates a watershed moment. >> in this case it has to be clear there's really no tolerance for this sort of behavior. >> reporter: mcdonald is innocent until proven guilty, but expect the nfl to hit him hard if the ruling comes back as guilty. federal investigators carried out surprise inspections at dozens of detention facilities in texas and new mexico. they had received 100 complaints of wrong doing and mistreatment. investigators found better sanitation, food and water supplies and access to emergency care. they also have a clearer picture of how many unaccompanied children are here in the bay area. according to if office of refugee settlement there's 470 children in san francisco, san mateo and santa clara counties.

meantime an exclusive ktvu field poll finds a majority of california voters say the u.s. should offer shelter and support for immigrant children entering the country illegally. one in three said, deport them immediately. san francisco police have arrested a man accused of breaking into the indonesia kopbs -- consulate in san francisco. it happened at 3:30 this morning. police say they arrived to find a broken window and tobias spencer inside the building. they say surveillance video show spencer climbing the window and breaking a window. it's an important way to keep track of sex offenders once their released. but some are not signing up, how they're getting around it and the push to close the loophole. and uber finds a new way of

getting around but you have to share with other riders. and freed after spending weeks with its head trapped in plastic. why wildlife officials refused to help it and who finally steped in to set it free.

>> a young black bear in pennsylvania who had a bucket stuck on its head for two

months can finally see clearly again. a group of people stepped in and sawed off the bucket. the cub was not hurt and ran back into the woods. the bucket was a piece of an air bag from a truck crash. contra costa investigators spent hours -- the driver managed to get out of the truck and was not injured. the median lane was blocked for several hours while crews removed the crash and debris. there's no word on what caused the crash. people who were in a flight -- the plane was diverted to make an emergency landing. now nobody was hurt but some passengers say they may take the bus next time.

>> i knew something was wrong when my ears started popping. and the thing dropped from the ceiling. >> all i did was put my head between my legs and just waited until we landed. passengers were back on their way to orlando monday. the airline said that they paid for everyone's overnight stay and gave them a refund. customer credit and debit card information was stolen and sold online. the breach may have become in may. home depot says it's working with law enforcement and banks. imagine having an allergy attack at 35,000 feet. the guidelines one mother is determining for people who

suffer from potentially harmful ingredients. and sex offenders are avoiding that mandatory requirement and the new effort to get them on the list. significant temperature drops today from what we saw yesterday. temperatures continue to plummet. i'll let you know how much cooler it's going to get in your backyard.

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allergies on airplanes. one mother says her son is allergic to peanuts and she's terrified of him having an emergency while they're thousands of feet in the air. jaqueline fell shows us what this mother went through to help her son. >> i have to clean the back of the seat, the arm wrest, table anything he might touch. >> reporter: up to 1,500 have food allergies. >> we're worried about our children dying at 35,000 feet, we're having a reaction. >> reporter: she's petitions for federal guidelines. she wants passengers to be able to check that they have a food allergy before they get on the

flight. and she wants to be allowed to preboard so she can clean her child's area. >> they don't cost them anything and it gives me piece of mind. >> reporter: if this passenger had a food allergy three rows behind them and three rows behind them would have to be a nut free area. the department of transportation offer airlines guidance on handling allergies. including crew members training on responding to emergencies. some carriers don't serve nuts on the flight but it's up to every flight's discorrection. single moms started an online government petition after she says a flight attendant suggested she not fly to avoid allergic reaction to peanuts. nearly 16,000 people have signed on. ntsb investigators now believe the pilot involved in last month's deadly plane crash near novato may have regained

partial power before the crash. just before losing contact with the control tower he reported partial engine power had been restored. his plane was later found 8 miles west of the airport. final results from investigators are not expected for a few more months. ride sharing service uber is opening up its uber pool service to all san francisco users. uber pool lets passengers coshare the ride. the cost of the ride is then split between the passengers. google's driveless cars are nowhere near road ready according to a progress report there's still a lot of obstacles cars can't handle. the list is so long that it limits the car to 1% of u.s. roadways. the director of the google car

team says despite all that needs to be done he hopes to finish the car before his 11- year-old son turns 16. bay area tennis c.c. bellis lost another match ending her hope for a win at the u.s. open. bellis was to top seed lost to a russian teenager. she recently made it to adult competition but lost in the second round. bellis was born in the bay area and lives with her family in aferton. it was a fabulous day around the bay area. sitting outside in the backyard i was off and i was like, i don't think it could be any more perfect. >> it really was. it was one of those weekends. especially on a holiday like that. people were bar-be-queing in the avenues, it was warm outside from coast to inland. the fog now is back. the marine layer is going to stretch out. when it does it cools things

off. it's already happening right now. it's already been happening. it's going to continue through the evening hours and with more clouds and more fog pressing inland temperatures are going to cool. some numbers today like santa rosa is down 15 degrees from yesterday. maybe more than that. temperatures throughout the bay area, i would say 10 to 15 degrees cooler in the hot spots than yesterday and then on saturday. highs tomorrow will drop down a couple more degrees in some places. it's going to be very similar tomorrow but slightly cooler by a degree or two. but it won't be that. i think the big drop. the big noticeable drop was today. there's your fog along the coast and right now we have no big weather systems coming down. and that's how the marine layer gets so fat, gets stretched out. there's the fog right along the coast. and already it's coming down into the casio area. i expect it to be pretty much in all nine bay area counties and that starts you off with what it looks like out there now in san francisco and in oakland where it's foggy. the forecast for the winds. the winds are really blowing out there. they should back off later on.

but the -- you always know a good cooling breeze when you get the gust out another fairfield sustained at 65. that's the cool marine area makes it into the delta and the sacramento valley. 25-mile an hour winds at napa. 18 in oakland. so it's breezy out there. and so san francisco sustained at 20. the mountains have 23-mile an hour gusts there. it will start to die down the winds. the microclimates tomorrow mid- 60s around the bay, upper 60s. mid-70s where there were mid- 80s. when you get out to where there should be 90s. you're going to be in the mid- 80s. that's stretching it right there. that's discovery bay and stockton area where you get to 88. most of the hot spots tomorrow 85, 84 something like that. there's the low air pressure dropping down. it also expands and cools and you get the little drizzle might come out of this.

not much. but right along the coast. forecast highs tomorrow, like today very similar to what we had today. clear lake, why are they so warm? they're out of that marine influence. 85 in livermore, good air quality with this pattern as you know. and then in the santa clara valley, 80 in san jose, 82 in morgan hill and along the coast it's foggy out there pretty much all day tomorrow. and all day the next day. five day forecast, did you talk about subtle changes huh. look at that nothing much going on. i'm going to come clean with you guys just because -- >> i'm intrigued. >> i'm telling you, i've been doing this for seems like 100 year, i can't remember a two year period, the last couple of years because of the drought that it's been so for weather. just kind of flat lined. we get our weather systems we get stuff but not like the five days i've been doing night after night. it's subtle in the summer but this is ridiculously subtle. it's unusual weather. >> but your interpretation of

it, a little cooler, a little hotter. it helps us. >> this summer has been a lot like last summer, very even eddy. >> here's to 100 more years of having you., thank you bill. >> thank you bill. new concerns, an important list to keep track of sex offenders doesn't have all of them on it. some offendsers are getting -- offenders are getting around the mandatory requirement. and thousands of bay area workers are getting a free lunch. should some workers be paying more taxes than they do now? now to the julie haener with what we're working on for 6:00. >> first you get hit by thieves and then come the fees. >> it can add up into the hundreds or even thousands of dollars. >> why getting back a stolen car is so expensive in one bay area city and what's being done to protect victims. >> also on a mission to map the

san andres fault. these stories and more coming up at 6:00. q

a young man from danville is facing charges after crashing his car into a home and causing a gas leak.

he lost control of his audis4. that prompted the evacuation of about a dozen neighboring homes. >> all i could hear was the gas spewing and at that point i tried to open up the car door to see who this person was. and his car door was locked. somehow he came out the door. >> danville police say the young driver was arrested after failing a field sobriety test. no one inside the house was injured. a pg & e crew repaired the ruptured line and all the neighbors were allowed to go back inside their homes. many tech companies provide meal perks. but should those meals be considered part of an employee's income. there are signs the irs thinks so. >> reporter: it's lunchtime at social networking start up peg and on the menu two different

entree's from two different companies. and that's just lunch, there's also an option for dinner. >> i eat at my desk a lot. so i can multi task. >> reporter: if you were to go out and buy a meal like that on your own it would probably cost you $15. getting it for free five days a week is definitely a great perk. but should it be considered part of a person's income. there are signs the irs thinks it is something that could be taxed. >> it just has a list of issues that it expects to investigate and look into in the coming years. >> this year employee provided meals are listed as a possible possible tax benefit. golden gate university professor kim stanley. >> if it's provided by the employer to the employee and

the employee doesn't have to pay for it that's a significant benefit that's escaping taxation. >> reporter: steve starner says free meals are an essential recruiting tool for top talent. >> i think this is important for most people in tech. the developers and designers are looking for this benefit for the most part. when they're joining an established company. >> reporter: but >> reporter: but sarner say s if the irs would add a tax on every enchilada. >> we would definitely try to continue doing this but if not we would have to find an alternative. a report by the defense department's inspector general says 40% of inmates held in military prisons are convicted sex offenders but the

department's own auditor finds that some prisoners are allowed to leave jail without first enrolling in the system. >> if they don't have the most accurate information and someone is being missed it could be the very person their looking for is right under their noses. >> the defense department agrees with most of the recommendations put forth by the inspector general. they include placing security at every military prison to make sure all offenders get on the list. caught on video, a group surrounds and attacks a man inside a public bathroom. now south bay police are trying to uncover what led to this violent argument. >> the good news is stolen cars are being found. the bad news, it could cost the owner hundreds, even thousands

to get it back. we'll tell you why and who wants to change that. pg& e is ordered to pay a $1.5 billion fine the largest ever handed down by state regulators for the utilities failures before and after the san bruno pipeline blast. good evening i'm ken wayne. frank somerville is off tonight. >> and i'm julie haener. pg & e must pay. the administrative law judges with the california public utilities commission ordered the $1.4 billion fine. after identifying nearly 3,800 violations on pg & e east -- pg & e's part. ktvu's tom vacar is live now in san bruno with the story, tom.

>> reporter: well it is truly rare when pg & e, the utility reform network and the city of san bruno agree on a controversial issue. of the $1.4 billion fine that administrative lawmakers recommend the commissioners approve, almost 1 billion of it will go directly into a general fund to the state of california not for gas system improvement, gas safety improvements or better regulation of gas utilities. the cpuc has been implicated up to its neck in being too cozy with and not a fair minded regulator of pg & e. >> absolutely not. we can't see the benefit to the state general fund when in fact, this money should be put back into pipeline safety into the pipes that are under our feet. >> reporter: if the state spends that money on other things there won't be sufficient funds left to make improvements