no word on any serious injuries on that accident. >> those pictures were taken minutes ago. gray and raining and the rain is still coming down. marine this afternoon. this is highway 101. you can see there is standing water with cars going slowly: the rv park has flooding as well and this is just the start of rain. ktvu's chief meteorologist bill martin is here now. >> we talked about traffic, this morning's commute is wet and this afternoon's commute is wet and the traffic has suffered. how much rain? enough to slow things down. 5:00 a.m., numbers are going to pop in. half inch in santa rosa. san rafael 6/10. light amounts of rain. mountain view and san jose, trace amounts. but enough to cause problems. there goes the system.

not a strong one but it opens the door. zoom in a little bit. driving about. this area in the east bay, by -- towards pinole, heavier rain. the commute is taking a hit. when i come back we will talk about more commutes we will see you back here. >> thank you. protests in san francisco today as the uc regents voted to raise tuition by 5% a year for the next 5 years. next fall students would pay $612 more per year for $13,000 a year. that is for tuition alone. by 2019 tuition would rise it $15,000. ktvu's john fowler is live in san francisco. john -- san francisco. john, this issue is far from settled. >> reporter: that's correct. and folks were saying it is as dreary outside as it was inside and the protesters made their

point loudly. >> reporter: demonstrators and police clashed. one glass door broke and a student arrested. before the uc regents voteicide 7-2 during a noisy -- voted 7-2 during a nosy afternoon they voted raising tuition 5% a year for 5 years. >> i am a freshman, this will affect me. >> reporter: this group of students drove 5 hours to voice their opinions. >> i have seen my tuition increase over 30% since i first started. right now i am heartbroken. >> the committee did hear from students. >> i don't see the quality anymore. my last mid-term i took in an over crowded classroom. it is hard to get personal time. it is strange when i hear people talking about we are

becoming more privatized but we don't have the quality of the private universities. >> reporter: the legislator provided too little money after two years of freezes. janet napolitano versus governor jerry brown. >> i have looked at the sustainability plan and the only thing it did is say if you don't get the tuition -- [ indiscernible ] >> i don't think you considered alternatives to the structure over time that could lower your costs while increasing your access and improving quality. sounded like a lot when someone said you could put a computer on something -- [ indiscernible ] >> we don't have to time wait for another commission to -- we

can have it and we can make sure we get some -- maybe we will get nifty ideas out of it. that is always possible. but the budget process moves along and the sustainable plan has to go in. we need think about the long term health of the university. >> reporter: the governor and the student regent. this meeting continues tomorrow with a final vote. at 6:00 p.m. details on why this plan may not effect most students. >> john fowler live in the city. thank you. president obama announced today he will address the nation tomorrow night and discuss an executive action he plans to take on immigration reform. it will shield 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and make them eligible for work permits. the plan does not allow them to have federal benefits.

on friday the president will travel to loss vagues vagues to -- las vegas to fight the plan. in jerusalem the scene of a horrifying attack yesterday. [ speaking foreign language ] >> they made a plea for peace during a special service today. five people were killed including three rabbis and a police officer. the government says it will demolish the hopes of the two cousins responsible for the attack. the measure approved on the november ballot could change the lives of thousands of californians. ktvu's rob roth with the story of one man's mistake that may be a thing of the past 25 years later. >> reporter: being a convicted

felon could carry a stigma that could last someone's life but today we met a man who may see that disappear because of proposition 47. >> long, hard struggle. very long. >> reporter: he was convicted in a felony drug possession back in 1989 when he was 18 years old. he served at san quentin prison but getting a job was impossible. >> when you have felonies on your record nobody trusts you. nobody wants anything to do with you. you are not a real human being. >> reporter: after 25 years that is about to disappear. under prop 47 californians convict offend drug possession and many other low level crimes can ask a judge to have the convictions reduced to misdemeanors. that is a big difference.

>> he cried a little. >> to get that taken away, that could actually almost be considered being accepted back into society. >> reporter: he is one of 40,000 convicted felons in california who served time and now may be eligible to expunge their felonies. >> this is a list of cases that we have to review. >> reporter: san francisco public defender set up a special hot line for people to call who think they might be eligible. he got dozens of calls in two days. >> we expect that we are going to get thousands of requests for help. in san francisco we identified at least 2500 cases. >> reporter: he says getting the felony label removed would be a big lift. >> hey, i might try to take that exam then. >> reporter: he has his hearing

in two weeks and it could take years to process the thousands of other cases under proposition 47. >> especially for work purposes it could be a huge change. thank you. a 69-year-old man who was wrongfully convicted of murder is awaiting his release tonight. yesterday a judge over turned the conviction, he was sentenced to life in prison for a deadly shooting. the decision was made after dna tests and evidence came to light. he served 32 years in prison. that is the longest wrongful incarceration in state history. back now to breaking news from the east bay, a major accident happened this afternoon that involved 10 cars on the north bound lanes of 680. ktvu's john sasaki is not far from the scene of the accident. they got this cleared up quickly, didn't they?

>> they did. i talked to contra costa county fire and they cleared it in less than an hour. i will show you. we are at the intersection of 24 and 680. all the headlights heading towards the camera, heading north bound on 680. on the right, coming from 24, you can see how backed up that is, 24 eastbound on to 680. the left, from the danville area. yes, indeed there were multiple vehicles involved in the accident. it happened around 2:40 p.m. this afternoon. and then one of the vehicles that was involved was flipped on its side, caught on fire. by the time firefighters got here the fire was out but they had to get a person in the vehicle out. that person was not injured very seriously but there were about 5 people taken to the medical center. i talked to the folks there at

the hospital, they had one person who was probably serious condition, so it looks like we escaped real serious critical injuries. of course, this is quite likely an accident collision caused by bad weather. of course, chp will tell you, even in bad weather all accidents could be avoided. so this is one of those situations perhaps someone was driving too quickly given the conditions. it is all cleared up here. bad news is, the traffic eastbound on 24 and north on 680 very, very backed up. john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. back to you guys. we are learning more today about the hit and run death of a woman in napa county.

the victim was 57-year-old maria cruz pascual bejar. authorities believe she is from spain and was working at a group home. they haven't been able to contact her family even with help from the consulate. she was hit by a car on sunday. anyone with information is encouraged to call the sheriff's department. in oakland police are investigating a home invasion in the fruitvale neighborhood about 2:00 p.m. this afternoon at a home on the 3100 block of texas street. no one was injured. investigators have not yet told us what was taken and no arrests have been made. san jose police are looking for an armed man who they thought was hold up in a home with children. police received a report last night of an armed man in a house across from a high school. there were 7 children and 2 adults in the house.

police surrounded it. s.w.a.t. officers used grenades oclear it but when -- to clear it but when they went in there was no suspect. a new career, critics say she hasn't escaped the sexism. >> teaching young women and children the wrong thing. >> the lines in a barbie book that has a parent suggesting it should be set on fire and a wild boar tracked down and killed. >> a blueprint for a deadly school attack, the e-mail that caused a high school to be shut down and propertied a fbi man hunt. ♪

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school's principal. ktvu's mike mibach reports it has specific threats inclouding a threat of a -- including a threat of a mass shooting. >> dark rainy day at santa cruz high school. >> i got to school and i was told to go home. >> reporter: math, science, gym, library, every class silenced by one threatening e- mail. >> seems creepy. >> reporter: it was sent to the principal at 8:23 p.m. tuesday night. >> did not indicate any specific person or persons as a target. >> reporter: santa cruz police deputy declined to release specifics. he said the e-mail is concise, focused and did threaten a mass shooting. >> it was intended to be a message of mass casualty as the superintendent indicated there wasn't list. this wasn't a manifesto list of

people that they wanted to target. >> reporter: officials closed school. starting at 6:00 a.m. alerts went out. >> we have like intruder drills every so often where we have to hunker down in the classrooms and turn off all the lights. >> they agreed that closing the school was the right call. >> i think that a lot of us are afraid. >> reporter: those students said there were no big events planned today. the police department said they have been working with the fbi and trying to determine who auththered e-mail and where it was -- authored the e-mail and where it was sent from. nbc is dropping a deal with bill cosby because of allegations of sexual assault. tv land will stop airing reruns

of the cosby show. bill cosby has been dationed by al-- dogged by allegations of sexual assault in the past decade. the women all say bill cosby drugged and raped them. bill cosby's lawyer calls the claims false. the nfl is sending a strong antidomestic violence message to schools. the nfl sent a video to high school and college coaches across the country encouraging them to be aware of and act against domestic violence and abuse. the video includes strong messages from nfl, college and high school coaches. they recognize the influence coaches can have on the players. the nfl fined marshawn lynch $100,000 for not speaking to the media. as you know, marshawn lynch grew up in the bay area, and

played for the bears. the $100,000 is for violations this season and last season. players must be available following all games. this is marshawn lynch's third fine for violations of the league's media policy. the san jose earthquakes announced a deal with a tech firm for rights to name the new stadium. the deal will cost $20 million over 10 years. the team says the stadium will have the state of the art technology throughout the stadium. >> social media, connecting to fans, concessions, ticketing, all those things need to be drawn on an infrastructure. >> the naming rights deal is one of the biggest in major

league soccer. it is set to open in march. back now a our bay area weather. the traffic is a mess due to the rain. we don't know how to drive in the rain but we better hurry up and learn. [ talking at the same time ] >> traffic in the east bay because of the slick roadways. commutes getting hit with showers. right now, the rain moved through, through now. you will see showers lingering just in time to make your way home. traffic is bad tonight. we pointed that out. heaviest rain towards concord. scattered showers at this point. not seeing -- this frontal system, kind of just falling apart. just seeing a lot of moisture streaming into the area. san jose, trace amounts of rainfall. here is system one.

that is now. system two. that is thursday afternoon. and here is system three. saturday. that looks like the real deal. this has something going on. see that? these storms have had higher snow levels. this will drop levels and bring more rain. today it is raining. right? tough to call it a winter storm. i like to see -- inch, inch and a half of rain is what you want to see from the north boy to the south bay -- bay to the south bay. system number two shows up, it will be wet. we could see quarter inch in the hills, 3/4 inch of rain. ticks up. and saturday has more. the forecast model, tonight, 8:00 p.m., lingering showers. tomorrow morning, there it is. morning commute is dry.

afternoon, poof. look at that. that is 2:00 p.m. the front will move through. it will deposit quarter inch of rain, maybe more. because it is a fast mover it won't deposit much more than that. lingering showers for the afternoon commute. thursday afternoon's commute, wet like now. highs tomorrow. still a warm front. this is storm number two. the next one, temperatures will be dropping down more. that is saturday. we will talk more about that in the next weather hit. the five-day forecast with your bay area weekend in view and there it is. there is your rain in the afternoon. friday is our break and saturday looks good. nice looking weather system. sunday and monday, you see a few clouds lingering. there you go. getting the rain. i guess my struggle is i am always wanting more. i should be happy we are getting anything at all. the accumulations have been

2/10 of an inch. should be dropping an inch. >> thank you. cirque du soliel returned to the bay area. we will take you back stage and we will show you what makes this show different. >> julie haener is here now for what we are working on for 6:00 p.m. >> 2 investigates exposed a tax preparer accused of defrauding customers and now san francisco is taking action. >> san francisco city attorney file as lawsuit after 2 investigates uncovers a tax preparation business that stole thousands from their returns. >> a slow down at california ports is spreading to the bay area and creating a benefit. these stories and much more coming up new at 6:00 p.m. ♪ come and get it ♪ get it, get it ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na na na na ♪ ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na... female announcer: it's a great big world and it can all be yours.

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♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ get ready to be amazed. cirque du soliel is back in san francisco with its latest show. this time it has more machines and gadgets. ktvu's alex savage takes us back stage now to introduce us to the talented performers. [ music ] >> reporter: talented acrobats. cirque du soliel is back in san francisco. this morning we went under the big top. >> sometimes i like to go faster. >> reporter: as some of the performers showed off their skills. >> i am going to try to juggle. >> reporter: we found out that i am not destined for a career

in the circus. i can't keep 3 balls in the air without help. along with the jugglers, they are big on propers. this has more machines, gadgets and hands than ever before. it is set in the mid-nineteenth century. >> we are celebrating all the great inventions that came at the time. the human intelligence. and all the possibilities. this is what we want the audience to feel when they are leaving. everything is possible. >> reporter: he is one of the performers who wows the audience with his aerial skills. my skills, however, not as impressive. he says there is no secret to what he does. >> a lot of training hours in the gym. no short cuts. i wish. >> reporter: this is the first stop for cirque du soliel on its u.s. tour. the tents are set up and the

show will be here till january 18. alex s, ktvu channel 2 news alex savage, ktvu channel 2 news. >> those guys, cirque du soliel is so much fun to see. they are incredible what they can do. all right. coming up here, members return to their church for a first mass since the building nearly burned down and why the pastor says they are counting their blessings even though the church was almost destroyed. >> a woman walking her dog is gored by wild boar. how hunters tracked down that animal.

complete bay area news coverage continues right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00 p.m. >> rain throughout the bay area today. it hasn't been heavy but it has been causing a lot of problems on the roads this evening. >> we should consider ourselves lucky. there are cities in the u.s. right now that are buried in several feet at snow. at home, a quarter inch of rain but there is more to come. and our chief meteorologist bill martin is here now to talk about the storms that are lining up. this is just the beginning. >> the commutes are wet and we have two mother weather

systems. let's look at what is happening right now. if you are waiting for a family member to get home, things are slow on the local highways as you know. you can see the green areas representing where the rain is coming down. this interchange by concord, towards the 680, had a problem out there with a wreck. a big wreck. causing delays. now it is raining and so that is going to slow things down. current rainfall around the area tends to be in the north and east bay. hayward you have shower activity. listen, there is more to come. this is storm system number one. it is the weakest one. the one tomorrow will have more and the one on saturday will have more. there is more rain coming your way. one of the biggest problem spots was in walnut creek today. an accident involving 10

vehicles on 680. it happened this afternoon and it triggered massive traffic back ups that are stretching into the evening commute. >> the dependent happened at 2:45 p.m -- the accident happened at 2:45 p.m. this afternoon. one of the cars caught fire trapping someone inside. authorities say it injured five people and at one point shut down 4-5 lanes of traffic. >> i want to put up the live traffic map. we have all of that red. you see there in walnut creek. red means traffic is barely moving. and 80, by the bay bridge, traffic has been very slow in both directions. a lot of red all over. a lot of the issues stemming from the rain. always slowing down traffic. >> rain here at home but snow in areas of new york. 7 deaths are blamed on a

devastating storm that swept through upstate new york. >> more than 5 feet of snow fell in buffalo. in new york to tell us what the area will be facing next. >> reporter: a blast of winter that covered cars, and left a path of death and destruction in its wake. >> we found on an individual today, 46-year-old male, car was buried under 12-15 feet of snow. >> snowplows are hard at work trying to keep the roads clear. 100 people were stranded as the storm refused to let up. he says he was stuck on the freeway for more than 38 hours before he was finally rescued. >> i was going to pull off but they haven't plowed the exit so you couldn't get off the highway. >> reporter: she asking people to stay -- he is asking people

to stay put because the snow fall isn't over yet. >> national weather service is predicting another 2-3 feet of snow in those areas. that will get them to 90, 100 inches of snow, that is a year's worth of snow in four days. >> reporter: the governor is in western new york to assess the damage. he already authorized national guard units to help with the storm clean up. new york isn't the only area seeing a blast of winter weather. the national weather service says all 50 states have seen temperatures dip below freezing this week. in new york, jonathan hunt, fox news. ficialed killed a wild boar that gore -- officialed failed wild boar that gored her. details on the woman's

condition and how the hunters were able to track down the animal. >> reporter: the team that took down this wild boar after it gored a woman as she walked her dogs last week. aside from tracking down the boar that looked similar to this one, she shared what her neighbor told her about the attack. >> come from behind and knocked her down. got her on the ground and she yelled and screams. >> when the woman thought it was leaving -- >> come back at her again. >> reporter: attacking her three times, including her leg and arm. the woman grabbed on to her dogs for life. >> held on to them and stayed down quiet and he left. >> the woman is still being treated for one deep wound to her leg. the dogs --

>> you could hear when they grabbed. >> reporter: enabling him to take aim. >> i shot straight down through the neck. >> the boar was unmistakable. >> he left one big foot track. it was huge. what happened is because he is three legged that foot has grown huge. >> reporter: they were relieved to eliminate the threat of a future attack. >> glad to get rid of a bad pig. >> wild boars have been a problem in some bay area neighborhoods. back lash against a new barbie book, why parents think the story line goes off course and sets a bad example. >> an airline that flies to all three bay area airports does

something it has never done before. how jet blue is trying to please ingesters. >> and the daughter of a new york -- investors. >> and the daughter of a new york firefighter that was killed in 9/11 followed in his footsteps. how she is honoring her daughter every time she suits up.

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it is exciting news from the surface of a comet. scientists say the probe detected carbon in the atmosphere. that means comets may have delivered the building locks of -- blocks of life to our planet. it was set back before the battery went dead. they are hoping it will get more sun light and the battery will recharge. the daughter of one of the new york city firefighters who died on september 11 today officially became a new york city firefighter herself. she received her diploma today and was congratulated today by the mayor. her father was one of more than 300 firefighters killed trying to save others at the world trade center. she says her mantra was make him proud. >> waiting for this day my

whole life. especially past 13 years i made it, you know, a mission to make sure that i fulfilled my dream. >> she made him very proud. she made us proud. and she made herself proud. >> she carries a picture of her dad and wears his bracelet too. mauves a san jose church -- members of a san jose church returned today for the first service since a fire. 100 gathered for a mass helds inside a hole behind it church. -- held inside a hole behind the church. the pastor says it has been an emotional few days. >> mourning the loss of our church building and counting our blessings that nobody was killed. nobody got hurt. >> the fire tore through the

church on sunday after mass ended. almost everything inside was lost except for books, paintings and a crucifix. it is believed it started with a electrical problem. some serious accusations against pg&e ask the c.p.u.c. why consumer group says they made a secret deal using money from rate payers and that money should be returned. >> barbie under fire. why parents are complaining about a new book called i could be a computer engineer. >> tracking the showers. there is more coming. showers now and more headed your way for tomorrow. i will time it out for you. right here in san francisco. whether it's helping local businesses like the fruitguys grow and prosper, supporting nonprofits like juma ventures as they fulfill their mission

or helping neighborhoods like the tenderloin become vibrant communities. if there's a way to help the people of san francisco thrive and succeed, we'll find it. that's the power of local connections. that's bank of america.

a consumer group called on the c.p.u.c. to resend a decision that gave pg&e and four other utilities $68 million in rate payer money. 29million went to pg&e for energy efficiency. today they said it was the product of corruption. e-mails disclosed by pg&e shows c.p.u.c. president and pg&e made a secret deal. >> the president said he would give pg&e $26 million of rate

payer money if pg&e would contribute to a political cause that he favored. >> the performance of the utilities didn't warrant awards. pg&e issued a statement saying there is no disagreement the e- mails were inappropriate and as we have acknowledged we believe some of them violated the rules. the city counsel moving forward with a plan to expand the oakland zoo. it was an after midnight vote to approve the expansion into nolen park after a meeting last night with dozens of people expressing their opposition. they say it would sacrifice space but the zoo wants room for more exhibits. new at 5:00 p.m. an effort by the makers of barbie to get girls interested in computer science back fired.

ktvu's allie rasmus shows us why the book has parents upset. >> reporter: we will show you an excerp. barbie said i am only creating the ideas, i will need help to turn them into a game. >> reporter: it appears to be a bomb. underimate barbie fail -- under the #barbie fail, at issue are several page wheres barbie steps aside to let two guys solve the problem. >> the message is even if she wants to go into it she will need boys to help her and that is worse than not having the book. >> reporter: unlike the book's heroin, she is an expert.

>> i have bachelors, masters and ph.d. from mit. >> reporter: not only did the book misthe mark -- missed the bark, it got computer engineering wrong. it focuses on designing a computer game. >> it is not called game designer. it is called computer engineer. she comes up with a game idea but -- game but the guys have to program it. >> reporter: there are companies and groups that get it right. she volunteers for a non-profit that creates coding touratorials for kids. she said they should have consulted with the experts. >> there are many men and women in the field that are knowledgeable about what engineers really do and they could have involved people like that. >> reporter: they issued a statement in response to the

controversy, they explained the book was published in 2010 and barbie's portrayal does not reflect their vision and they add future books will portray a more empowered barbie character. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. thank you. over to our chief meteorologist bill martin now because we got some rain today and more rain is on the way. >> yeah. getting used to the umbrellas. keep them handy. you will need them. even jackets. into tomorrow and again saturday. so that is just how it goes. it is november. it is acting like it. rainfall accumulations. up in the hills up there, they get typically get the biggest rainfall. north, they got .7. most cities got 2/10, not a lot of rain for the city but good amounts of rain in the coastal hills.

the system is dropping snow at the higher elevations. snow flurries at path level. rain falling right now. we will take a peak. concord. antioch. scattered showers. if you are waiting for folks to get home from work today, danville, walnut creek, it has been slow all night because of the earlier accident and? showers. the showers are moving out tonight and tomorrow they mauve back in -- move back in. tomorrow morning dry. around 10:00 a.m. showers develop again. afternoon commute might be wet. might be similar to tonight. the front will have passed but there will be scattered showers after that and you will see wet roadways. half inch in some of the coastal hills. late friday, saturday morning, the next system comes in, wind and rain. tomorrow, stronger than system number one today. here is the system, 11:00 a.m.

blows through quickly. 3:00 p.m. and then you see showers about 7:00 p.m. afternoon commute tomorrow will be like today. and then here comes saturday. coming in here. moves in. saturday morning. right now the models might clear it out saturday saturday afternoon. we will see how it goes. 62 los gatos. 62 morgan hill. mild. morning commute tomorrow not like this morning. better. afternoon commute tomorrow like today. umbrellas keep them handy. more rain tomorrow and the storm should have 2/10 of rain over what we saw today. some areas could get a half inch tomorrow. >> thank you. an airline that prides itself on being consumer friendly will start charging for bags for the first time and it is not the only way they are

trying to win over investors. >> julie haener is here now for what we are working on for 6:00 p.m. >> coming up, we are getting new information into the news room about an attempted kidnapping of a 7th grade boy. he was grabbed by a man while leaving school and we are talking to the principal. we will have that coming up at 6:00 p.m. >> claims of stolen tax returns. we brought you the story and the company at the center of it all. now they filed a lawsuit on behalf of the alleged victim. >> these stories and much more coming up new at 6:00 p.m.

a reverent accepted organic produce for glide free meal program. they delivered the donated produce this morning. it was all grown with compost made from food scraps collected by the city and donated to the farm which then grew the food. they said it will launch the new season of sharing. >> it is amazing. squash, cabbage. sweet potatoes. >> really is. >> we didn't expect this. now that it is here we rejoice.

we are very happy about this. >> they said the holidays are the biggest food weeks of the year. the company is encouraging people to contribute to the program to help grow more food for more people. tonight we learned facebook shuttle drivers voted in favor of unionizing. the company supplies buses that takes facebook employees back and forth. drivers say they make $18 an hour and they are underpaid and they work split shifts that force them to sleep in their cars unpaid. >> making six figures and we are only making half of that. yeah. be nice if we could get maybe little more. >> a local chapter is expecting to negotiate for the drivers. jet blue broke down today and said it will reduce leg

room on planes to add more seats and they will start charging for checked baggage. ktvu's tom vacar is at oakland airport. they seem to be bower to pressure from share holders? >> reporter: wall street says it wants better returns and passengers will pay for it. >> reporter: jet blue will no longer allow free bags as it does now. ticket priss will be raised to reflect how many bags you checked. the highest priced tickets will include two bags. another would allow one checked bag. the cheapest would be for those with no checked bags. >> that will impact my decision on who i am going to fly with. one reason i pick them is because they are customer

friendly and freed checked baggage and rheumier. >> reporter: but they will add 15 seats to its jets reducing leg rooms to allow for 165 seats. extra leg room seats will be available but for an extra fee. >> if they are going to increase costs, that is going to impact my decision on who i play with. >> i don't think it is a good idea. the other airlines have already done that and it is not pleasant. >> that leaves one carrier, southwest, that includes up to two free bags. >> i think i would go with southwest if you didn't have to pay for all the extras. >> i will be shopping it. >> reporter: jet blue announced it is delaying the purchase of 18 more planes. that extra 3,000 seats causes airlines to have to lower prices to fill them but if you

don't have the planes you don't have the seats to fill. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. never liked to use the phrase slam dunk but this is as close as i have seen. >> now at 6:00 p.m. san francisco city attorney sues, how you could get a refund. >> a wet and dangerous drive home tonight. >> and a slow down at california ports is having a ripple effect in the bay area but it is not all bad news. >> complete bay area news coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 p.m. >> just five months after 2 investigates uncovered claims of fraud by a local tax preparer city officials in san francisco are taking legal action. good evening. hello. i am frank somerville.

>> and i am julie haener. >> based on customer complaints and a suspicious money trail uncovered by ktvu's melanie woodrow they filed a lawsui against that business and the owner. and here now are details on the investigation and what this means for customer whose say they have -- who -- customers who say they have been ripped off. >> he has two goals by filing the lawsuit it get tax customers their money back and to make sure there are no victims. >> it is your money. get it faster. >> reporter: inside money mart and check cashing businesses. >> i think what they were doing was looking for people who needed the money so they wouldn't ask too many questions. >> when they noticed their refunds were missing hundreds,