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2 investigates asked tough questions about the police response raised by radio communications. now the attorney for misty holt- singh's family says there is new evidence of what happened before her death. ktvu's eric rasmussen is here with word that new evidence includes surveillance video. >> reporter: the attorney for misty holt-singh's family says they have video footage from bank of the west, while the family says they can't release the video, the attorney described it as shocking. >> what we know is that she begged for her life. she begged not to be taken. >> surrounded by misty holt- singh's husband, the attorney described surveillance video from bank of the west. three months ago robbers took her and two others hostage before leading police on a chase and shoot out.
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>> 33 officers fired at least 600 bullets in a vehicle with full knowledge that misty holt- singh was inside the vehicle. >> back off. give him room. >> in august, 2 investigates obtained obtained recordings during the chase and asked the police chief about the officer's response. >> at that point did your officers know there was a hostage in the car? >> we know that the majority of the officers were aware but again so many other dynamics were in play. >> reporter: misty holt-singh was killed, shot 10 times from bullets from police. >> that is excessive and unreasonable force. there is no other way to describe it. >> reporter: closure still far off from her husband and children. >> we continue to live the nightmare. the pain is still there.
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>> reporter: the family lawyer insists protocol should have called for officers to pull back from the chase and allow the police copt to follow -- the helicopter to follow. a group decided to do their own review that both sides are happy about. >> are there talks of a lawsuit? >> reporter: no mention of it today but it hasn't been ruled out. the attorney is looking into the bank's actions and why customers weren't told about robberies in the past. >> thank you. >> seeing the pictures of the family, can't imagine what they are going through. our coverage continues on www.ktvu.com. listen to the recordings during the bank robbery and the shoot out. look under hot topics. an ebola scare at a community college in san diego turned out to be a false alarm. a building was evacuated after a student said she traveled to
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the mid-west and that her sister had flu symptoms. a rumor began the student was on the same flight as the second nurse amber joy vinson but officials say it turns out the student lied about her sister being sick to explain why she missed classes. ktvu's john fowler is in walnut creek with a look at the increased vigilance at airports and hospitals. >> reporter: that's right. hospital officials here say they are about to begin ebola specific training and nurses say everyone here is aware and on alert. >> after an ebola scare a false alarm john muir hospital has training scheduled. >> video education as well as hands on practicing. >> reporter: putting on and taking off personnel protective equipment such as this suit. people here in contra costa county are aware of ebola fears. >> people are making a bigger
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deal out it right now. there is only three people i understand in the united states. >> most we talked with are alarmed. >> we have to stop it here, prevent it from coming into the country and then stop it in africa. >> reporter: four u.s. airports are screening arriving passengers for ebola. none in california. officials are asking for screening at sfo. >> it will provide an extra element of reassurance to people. >> reporter: we caught up with a doctor about to board a flight this afternoon to teach doctors over seas about ebola. he says if careens work -- screens work -- >> likely to pick up few, if any people with ebola. but i can understand at this point why people are taking an extra measure of precaution. >> reporter: last year 230 passengers total came through sfo from west africa, no bay
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area airports have direct flights. >> even that small number we see have passed through another airport. >> reporter: still sfo says it is resee to -- ready to screen as it has already for other diseases. medical experts say the flu is a greater risk, much more likely to kill people here than ebola. reporting live, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. dozens of nurses rallied in oakland demanding training for an ebola patient. >> the nurses chanted we are nina pham, she is the texas nurse who became infected. kaiser helmets and the nurse hospitals and the -- hospitals and the nursing staff are not ready to treat ebola. >> we want them to except our
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proposal for improvement of patient care and for all nurses to be protected when an infected ebola patient comes along. >> the nurses marched in oakland to oakland headquarters. in a statement kaiser says it updated protocols in response to the ebola outbreak in west africa and we have more information on how ebola spreads and how to protect yourself, under hot topics on our home page. four new cases of enterovirus d68 in santa clara county. officials say all five patients are children under 18 years of age. that brings the total number of bay area cases to 36 based on numbers from officials friday. in addition, enterovirus has been diagnosed in alameda, contra costa county, san francisco and solano counties. 12-year-old is in critical
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condition after being shot while walking with his uncle last night in bay point. ktvu's noelle walker is live in the news room. do investigators think this could have been a targeted shooting? >> reporter: contra costa county sheriff's office says there is a strong possibility that this shooting could have been targeted. but if that is the case, investigators don't know who the intended target was. >> hearing gun shots. everybody ran outside. >> reporter: just as this neighborhood was settling in for the night -- >> six shots. >> reporter: gunfire broke the silence. >> the lady scream. the kid cry. >> i love him. >> reporter: she rushed to her grandson's side as he lay bleeding. >> he is just being a kid out there. he can't have that freedom to go out and play or walk the
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street without somebody coming along and shooting him? >> reporter: he was walking home with his nephew when the boy was shot. >> i was there with him making sure he was hanging on. >> reporter: at the middle school the principal wrote the e-mail he never wanted to write, letting teachers know a student was shot and critically injured. >> i felt bad for the family. he is a great kid. very likable. this is hard to handle. the school had counselors ready before the first bell rang to help classmates talk through their fears. >> some are sitting alone and i encouraged them to say some of your friends are in the library, do you want to talk with them? >> reporter: there are questions at school and in the neighborhood. investigators are looking looking for any suspect suspects but -- suspects but found none. >> i don't know why anyone
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would do something like this, he don't deserve that. >> reporter: contra costa county sheriff's office is asking anyone with information to call. you can remain anonymous. noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. a 17-year-old pleaded no contest to setting another teen on fire while the victim was sleeping on a transit bus last year. richard thomas was charged as an adult for the attack on sasha fleischman. he was wearing a skirt and police said the attack was motivated by home phobia. he pleaded no contest. as part of the plea deal he faces 7 years behind bars. he could have been sentenced to life. today sasha fleischman's mother said her family wanted a lighter punishment. >> we feel for richard thomas and for his family and --
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because of what seems to have been a childish tragic lack of judgment. i don't want to see him become a victim of the system. >> sasha fleischman's family says the teen is now a freshman and has physically roved from the -- recovered from the burns. the shed you are looking at, once a hub for prostitution, how the city is using code enforcement to fight crime. >> forecasters look at california's drought, what they say the chances are we will turn things around this winter. >> after the break, tracking rain chances into the next few days. >> and ktvu channel 2 news viewers are sharing their photos from the giants games using #giants 2 win. here is a picture at at&t park before yesterday's game. >> and here is one.
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mese say they are 100 -- police say they are 100% certain they have the man suspected of groping two young girl. surveillance video helped identify the man who groped a girl at a target shore and a 9- year-old at a walmart. he is 20 years old and he lived in san leandro for six months and southern california before that. they believe the girls may not be the only victims. >> we are working with others and i expect there will be other victims out there.
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>> police say a community service employee spotted the man this morning near the stores and took photos of him and his car. using his license plate they tracked him to a parking garage on the peninsula and found other workers dressed the same. and they identified him using the photos. new at 6:00 p.m. empty and abandon, these homes are magnets for crime but now the city succeeded at turning things around by breaking new ground, busting property owners and doing that is getting attention all over the country. ktvu's katy eustis shows us how cold enforcement is being used to clean up homes and fight crime. >> it looks good. it will keep the neighborhood clean. >> reporter: she is excited. >> right now they are putting opfence. >> reporter: a fence she -- up a fence. >> reporter: a fence she
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doesn't even own. for years she watched people dump garbage and worse. >> a dead dog. >> reporter: it may be the easiest work they face. she watched prostitutes take over the abandon house. police kicked them out but then came squatters and a smell. >> you don't want to know. it smelled so badly because the water was turned off but they were still using the toilet. >> the house is known as a zombie property because finding the possible party is difficult. >> you feel like you have to become a detective in order to locate them. >> they tracked down the bank ownership and held it accountable. a $1,000 a day fine for up to 30 days for non-code compliance. >> the neighborhood now has a nice family that is in there.
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that makes the job more rewarding. >> reporter: this year alone code enforcement opened 1,050 cases. 842 have been closed. >> the house fell into disrepair. your crack house. >> reporter: she says enforcement is proving effective as a police tool. one property can bring down an entire neighborhood. this house alone, 121 calls for service within 5 years. >> close to $20,000 worth of resources just for one property. and there is no way a city like richmond can allocate that to one house. >> now the homeowner is remodeling. one house at a time they are improving. >> i think richmond is on the forefront. >> reporter: katy eustis, ktvu channel 2 news.
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a group says the potential impact of chevron's refinery project will get a closer took. communities for a better environment says it settled a lawsuit against the air quality management district. the group says they have agreed to review the environmental impact report for the project. the group claims the air district rubber stamped the report before it was approved by the city counsel last july. rain this winter may ease california's drought but it won't be enough to end it, those words from federal forecasters. the report predicts weather pattern will produce a slight chance of above average rain and snow across the state and southern california is more likely to get that extra rainfall. the report says the dry conditions will intensify across california along with oregon and washington. >> that is the last thing we need. our chief meteorologist bill martin now, what are your
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thoughts on that? >> it will take more than one or two seasons of rainfall. they are talking about aquifer, underground water, it is a giant lake under there. that will take years. this year, if we get a ton of rain, that is not going to do it. next year, not going to do it. it will take three, four years. we have rain in the forecast but it won't produce much to do something unless you are north of santa rosa. it looks real good. that is typhoon moisture but the idea is the system is splitting apart. some is going this way. some is going that way. the systems lose a lot and the potential for rainfall. drizzle and showers possible. possible along the coast. and in the north bay. these are current temperatures. everything over here,
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everything over here is hard to get rain into tomorrow. it will be right at the coast or north bay. over night lows are chilly. numbers down into the low 40s in the north bay and east bay. i think about the kids going to school. tomorrow will be like that. more cloud cover tomorrow but still warm to mild. cloudy tonight. this system starts to move in. here it is out here. but it stops right there. here is your friday. clouds, clouds, clouds. showers and rain north. most of the rain stays off shore or along the coast. pacifica. if you are in livermore, i don't think you will see anything tomorrow at all. i mean, i think san jose probably nothing. morgan hill nothing. santa rosa a 10th. but the upshot here is, you can see the system off shore, another system comes in on monday. it keeps chiseling away at the
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high pressure. pacific high. pacific high is why we say dry all summer. the pacific high starts to shift. the systems shift it faster and starts to give us more opportunities for storms. i am looking at the big picture. scattered showers tomorrow. barely. especially south of san rafael. something saturday morning. and mondays, doesn't look -- monday, doesn't look like a big deal, a shot at the ridge that could weaken it. we have a hurricane, a lot of storm activity, the pacific is lit up. >> just have to get it to drop here. thank you. >> can you work on that for us? [ laughter ] >> thank you. coming up next here, a really cool story. these are rivals at at&t park but earlier today giants fan
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and a cardinals fan were baseball fans and that prompted one to jump into the bay to help the other one. >> and it is all over twitter. joe shared this photo. this photo using #giants 2 win. he has been a lifelong giants fan for a year and a half. and ktvu's gasia mikaelian tweeted this picture today of a student wearing a buster posey jersey to school. share your photos from the game or watching at home, use iants 2 win.
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giants and cardinals fans have been going head to head all week but this afternoon an act of kindness caught on camera. check it out. it is hard to see. that woman is a giants fan. the wind blew her ticket out of her hands and into the water on a ferry. a fan jumped into the water to get her ticket and the man swimming back to shore is a st. louis cardinals fan. this proves when it comes down to it, baseball is about the
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love of the game. jumps into the water. >> that water is cold too. >> so nice. mark is here now with sports. the game, going back and forth. >> right now, good game, giants are trailing early 3-2. joe panic hit a 2-run home run for the giants. the sharks are back in new york. battle of the undefeated. the islanders and the sharks come in 1-1. sharks have love and support back east. we have a 1-1 game in the second. sharks working the power play. and he scores to put the sharks up 2-1. 3rd period they took a 3-2 lead. the youngster getting face and he is capable of doing that. we have a 3-3 game with 6 minutes left in the 3rd period. we will have the highlights of that at 10:00 p.m. >> old school versus new school
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sunday night, the national game, the great peyton manning who burned the jets for three touchdown passes as he continues his assault on the nfl record books for great plays by quarterbacks against new school, colin kaepernick who also had strike three touchdown passes monday night in the win over the rams and nothing but respect from colin kaepernick for his elder statesman. >> two people trying to lead our team to victories. at the end of the day that is what we do. very smart player. puts his offense and his team in the best position to win. always a great opportunity to go against someone like peyton manning. he does a great job. great quarterback. >> most i have heard him say in a month. mean time, high school football tomorrow night. our game of the week match-up,
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petaluma high school hosting el molina. that is the sporting life for right now. >> thank you. looking forward to it. armed robberies in the bay area and the suspect's cell phone is the star witness. 2 investigates looks into how police use cell phone evidence to build a federal case. >> 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 so much for joining us. go giants. >> good night.
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