new evidence tonight. john? >> reporter: frank, the video of the woman being hit is shocking. because it's so graphic, we're only going to show you part of it. oakland police were on scene at 18th avenue and east 15th street for hours after the fatal hit and run collision, collecting evidence. one of the last items they picked up was the woman's cane. >>it's not easy to be around here by yourself because anything could happen. >> reporter: a nearby security camera was rolling around 8:00 a.m. when it happened. at the top of the screen, you can see the woman walking from left to right across the street, reaching about halfway. that's when the car comes southeast on 15th without slowing down and hits her. she flew several yards before crumpling on the roadway. you can see the car stop for about two seconds, but the driver never gets out and just takes off. >> hit and run. >> yeah, hit and run, exactly. >> what do you think of that? >> i don't know. i don't like it. >> reporter: police say the victim was in her eighties and lived nearby. >> they don't even have to be drunk to be driving crazy. it's just like people just

don't care. they don't look out for the pedestrians around them. >> reporter: another nearby resident says there aren't enough stop signs on 15th street. >> they go too fast and they don't see people. and people, they don't stop. pedestrians have the right of way. >> reporter: a different security camera caught a good image of a are came. police say it was likely a newer model hyundai elantra, silver or green. it would look like this, now with front end damage. >> it's not something new. it's happened before. it's not something that i am shocked. i'm shocked that that happened, but it's still not something new. >> reporter: investigators did not get a description of the driver. if you know anything about the incident or who did it it, you are asked to call opd. >> john sasaki in downtown oakland tonight, thank you. in santa clara county, parents of school children received letters today about the growing outbreak of measles.

the office of education wants to update parents about the situation. the letter says right now there are only two reported cases in santa clara county and they are adults. officials don't know just how widespread the measles may be and they say that the letter is simply informational. >> it's just a notice to say -- it's a service to say there's no reason to panic, here's what's occurring, here's what you should know about it, here's tips, maybe information about symptoms. >> the letter is also meant to be a reminder to parents to make sure their children's immunizations are up to date. so far, measles cases have been reported in nine california counties, including alameda, san mateo, and santa clara. patients range in age from seven months to 70 years old. officials say a majority of the cases have been traced to exposure at disneyland. and on ktvu.com, you'll find a link to the state's latest information on the measles outbreak. just scroll down and click on

web links. now to a weather alert. a high surf advisory is now in effect along the bay area coastline, where big waves, up to 20 feet are beginning to roll in. it's going to be a beautiful weekend and a lot of people will probably be heading to the beach, but ktvu's john fowler tells us those perfect conditions can also be dangerous. >> see them? >> called waves. >> reporter: impressive rollers. >> getting bigger and bigger. pretty nice. >> reporter: crashing on ocean beach. >> pretty impressive, i have to say. >> look at that one, wow! >> reporter: brought crowds to the shore. >> people that surf, man, hope we get to see them jump in there. >> reporter: this is what it's like in the water. >> water's too rough! >> reporter: ocean beach, notorious for dangerous rip currents. at pacifica's lindemar surf spot-- >> the swell is picking up.

i can handle these! >> reporter: stephen has been surfing 50 years. >> i like waves from about this big to about that big. anything bigger, let the young kids have them now. >> awesome! >> reporter: best friends a decade-- >> great day of surfing. >> reporter: -- they call themselves moms who surf. >> yeah, swell's supposed to come up big time. >> reporter: looking forward to tomorrow. >> if the waves are too big, they close out and you just get bounced along. >> then you're pearling and your face is in the water. >> reporter: tomas from paris-- >> i'm not an expert, but i see a lot of people having fun. >> reporter: -- stayed dry on a great day. >> the sun, the water, the noise of the waves. that's fantastic. >> reporter: but right now is when the ocean is unforgiving. >> i mean, everybody's having fun. they know what they are doing. we're all being safe out there, right? >> yeah. >> reporter: lifeguards are

warning the public, cold water and big waves are only for the experienced, unless you are a big wave surfer. come to the beach, but stay out of the water. john fowler, ktvu channel 2news. tomorrow is another spare the air day here in the bay area. that means no wood burning for 24 hours, unless it's your only source of heat. air quality officials say a high pressure system off the coast will produce stagnant air that traps smoke close to the ground. this will be the 21st spare the air alert so far this winter season. our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking the conditions tonight. >> he joins us now in the weather center. bill, you know how dangerous the waves and rip currents can be. >> yeah, and with the warmth, julie and frank, the combination of big surf and warmth drives people to the beaches. of course that's the rip tides at ocean beach, about as dangerous as they get anywhere in the world, certainly in the united states. one of the most dangerous beach breaks in terms of rip tides and other things. the reason for that is as you see the surf here peaking right

now, the swell should start to fall off after midnight, but it's still very large. even though it's going to be smaller on sunday, here's the bay, right? right in this area is where the golden gate bridge is. as the tide goes out, you've got big tide swings, so you got 4 and 5 and 6 feet of water leaving the bay, coming out here. then you get these giant waves coming in and it creates some of the nastiest currents you could ever imagine. the mexico couple of days out at ocean beach are going to be bad. matter of fact, the as well as coming out of the west, so this is sort of a due west direction. here's ocean beach right here. see how that faces west? the swell hits it directly. you look at a place like point arena here, see that right there? as well as come out of the west, but inside the tip, doesn't get as big a swell. these west-facing beaches get hammered. ocean beach will have a lot of big surf, bad rip currents. as i mentioned earlier, you wouldn't catch me swimming in that area. with a surfboard, you're

relatively safe in a wet suit. but in a swimsuit, i wouldn't walk out there. swell drops off quickly after the next couple of days. a reminder, you can follow bill and all of our ktvu meteorologists online for the latest on the conditions. they are constantly posting updates on facebook and twitter. new at 6:00, a southern california publicyst was in the bay area today, claiming he once met the infamous zodiac killer and knows his identity. chris harris spoke with the press, describing how he briefly met a man in napa in the 1970s, a monday who told him, do you have any idea what it's like to wake up and know you're going to have to kill? harris says that man was earl van best, who died in 1984. van best is the subject of a book titled "the most dangerous animal of all." >> for the first time in all these years, we have a candidate. we have a person who i believe is a zodiac. it's the same person i saw in that diner.

>> harris says reexamining fingerprint evidence will prove his claims. the zodiac is suspected of killing as many as six people in the late 1960s. the san francisco police department issued a statement about the matter today, saying in part we have to have evidence to arrest people for crimes, not work on hearsay or beliefs. we want people to contact us with information. anyone can say what they would like or claim or believe, but we work with evidence. a man accused in two of the so-called gypsy hill murders dating back to the '70s spoke to ktvu today about his arrest and the allegations. ktvu's cristina rendon sat down with the suspect at the jail in redwood city and he made both an admission and a denial. >> reporter: our cameras were not allowed inside the jail, but i did speak with rodney halbauer for about 45 minutes this morning and i showed him this paper with the photos of the two bay area women he's accused of killing. he immediately looked at them and said he didn't recognize them. speaking from inside the san mateo county jail, rodney halbauer told me he had never

heard of the gypsy hill murders committed in 1976, until he found out he was being charged with killing two of the five bay area women, and likely one in reno based on a dna match. a woman convicted in the reno murder has been granted a new trial based on this dna evidence. halbauer tells me i was very surprised by this. i never, ever committed rape or murder. i never did anything like that. authorities believe halbauer committed the bay area killings while out on bail for other crimes in nevada, and right before he was convicted of raping a nevada woman in 1976. he says he was wrongly imprisoned and escaped twice. while on the run the second time, he says he stole a car and traveled to oregon. he admits to stabbing a woman multiple times there, saying, i was extremely desperate and insanely motivated. i wanted to get away from the crimes committed against me. i was headed to canada. he went on to say i'm sorry. i wish i could take it back. so if halbauer is capable of stabbing an oregon woman who

survived her attack, why won't he admit to the two gypsy hill murders? authorities say his dna was found at the bay area crime scenes. >> it is time to bring this man to justice for the murders that we can clearly prove at this point and bring some closure to the families as best we can. >> reporter: but halbauer insists he was never there. dna is not the smoking gun that everyone wants it to be, he said. when asked if he had any message for the gypsy hill murder victims' families, he replied with, i hope and pray they get closure, but they won't get closure by coming after me. he was very adamant that he is not a rapist or a killer, but authorities have said he is a violent sociopath. halbauer is 66 and the san mateo district attorney is seeking a life in prison sentence. in our newsroom, cristina rendon, ktvu channel 2news. one part of the bay area is still recovering from last month's big storms. tonight, we're getting a look at an area where crews are still working to repair the

damage. >> this is a lifeline for the coastal communities. >> what's being done to fix the problem before the next storm hits? >> also, prescription pills stolen from bay area pharmacies. the search tonight for a thief who has a very unusual mo. >> and time now to check in on the friday night commute. here's a live look along highway 101 at hospital curve in san francisco. very slow going in both directions there. the headlights are going north through the city and toward the bay bridge. all those taillights you see are going south towards sfo. >> boy, sure hope you don't have to take 80 home. look at that. that's interstate 80 in berkeley. very heavy in both directions. the taillights are headed north toward berkeley, richmond, and el cerrito.

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tion i oib . police in the south bay are searching for a man who they say uses a bomb threat to steal oxycodone and other prescription drugs. the man hit three pharmacies since december 12, the walgreen's in mountain view, and a walgreen's and rite aid in morgan hill. for more than a month now, police have been looking for the man seen in this surveillance video. back in december, investigators say he came into this walgreen's on east el camino real in mountain view and demanded drugs. two weeks later, he hit again, wearing a helmet as he robbed a morgan hill walgreen's. then, on the 11th of this month, police say the suspect robbed this rite aid, also in

morgan hill. in two of the thefts, he left a bag that he said held a bomb. >> somebody that's desperate enough to come in and threaten a bomb for narcotics definitely needs help. >> the suspect is described as a white man in his fifties, between 5' 11 and 6' 2 with a rampy voice. he usually wears a black motorcycle jacket with reflective stripes, sunglasses and a ski mask. in all of the cases, police say he got away on a motorcycle. new at 6:00, a look at storm damage still being repaired along a busy road in the north bay, popular with tourists and locals alike. it has been more than a month since the storm damaged marin county's highway 1, but crews are just now getting a handle on the problem. ktvu's tom vacar shows us the work being done. >> reporter: cal trans and its contractor have been repairing this 80-foot section of highway

one for weeks. it was not overrun by a december landslide, but undermined by stormwater flowing under the road and washing the earth underneath it away, causing what's called a slip-out. >> this is a lifeline for the coastal communities. >> reporter: but this is also the legendary pacific coast highway, one of the nation's most important tourist routes, giving visitors from all over the world breath taking views of coastal california. >> that's why we're working so quickly to get this road repaired and opened back up again, because we know people rely on it. >> reporter: as with other emergency projects such as the slide closures, cal trans was able to cut red tape to bring repair crews and their equipment in. >> normally it would take six to eight weeks. we had the permit within a couple of days. >> reporter: still, filling a huge gap and paving over on an extremely high and steep mountainside takes time and the right materials. crews set two-foot wide steel beams more than 20 feet into the ground to hold the wooden

wall forming the barrier. porous water rock fills the hole, into a safe drainage system. this is proven technology and this should last indefinitely, unless, of course, mother nature decides it shouldn't last indefinitely. and as you can see in previous repairs all along highway 1, such slides and slip-outs are not unusual, leaving cal trans to be prepared for the inevitable. >> other areas of the highway that may be susceptible to future storms. >> reporter: this project will be completed in early february. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2news. let's go back to our weather now, bring in chief meteorologist bill martin, because it is absolutely spectacular. bill, i walked out this afternoon, outside my house. i couldn't believe how warm it was! >> yeah, temperatures today, easily into the mid-60s. highs tomorrow, for your saturday, 70s. highs on sunday, perhaps into the mid-70s in some of the warmest spots. doesn't bring good news in terms of potential for rainfall. it just shows -- you don't need me to tell you. look at the jet stream.

it's a broad ridge. you can see it's got amplitude. it's up here pretty far, but also broad. niece are tough ones to break down typically because of the nature of them. they are hard to bust through. so this one's not going to get busted through. we won't see anything come up over the top, but we will see clouds move in early next week, with a chance of a sprinkle. but that activity will come in under the jet. it will come in off another source from the subtropics. we'll check it out. right now, not much of anything. valley fog right here, see the coast, valley fog living out there in the porterville area, fresno. they have had it all week. temperatures today warmed up. temperatures tonight will cool down into the 40s. 60 in santa rosa. 54 at novato right now. highs -- lows overnight, mid- 40s, with patchy valley fog. your saturday looks like a cool start. not as cool as we have seen some mornings. definitely a nice-looking day for saturday and sunday, with sunday being the warmest day as this high pressure really

establishes itself on that sunday period. so good-looking weather, no matter how you cut it. this isn't the time of year that you want good-looking weather. you need rain and snow. in fact, we're not going to see it. here's the computer model for saturday morning. there's the valley fog trying to reform. it doesn't have much of a push tomorrow at all. it has the last week or so. tomorrow, it will get up to modesto with patches around here, but not much. then on saturday afternoon, you see a little bit of coastal fog come to the coast, with a little onshore push. but then watch what happens on sunday. watch where the fog goes. you see everything go this way. that's the high pressure building in more firmly. that's how you know sunday should be the warmest day, because you'll see more offshore flow, marine layer responding accordingly. either way, it's going to be a nice weekend around here, especially in some of the coastal and bay cities, where temperatures will be warmer than they will be in the inland valleys, closer to that cool fog. so mountain view, san jose, you're upper 60s, low 70s tomorrow, perhaps low 70s on

sunday, the warmer day. the warmer spots on sunday could reach the upper 70s, down towards morgan hill. so a nice-looking weekend. no rain in this five-day. most likely no rain in the next five-day. january could go down as the driest january ever recorded in the bay area. >> wasn't it last january of last year-- >> yeah, really bad januaries. 2010, so five years of bad januaries. >> what about the whole year? >> this is the last year, really. >> thank you, bill. a sea otter has given birth at uc santa cruz. in fact, it's the first time a sea otter pup conceived in the wild has been born in captivity. scientists have been watching over the pup since it was born in late november. it's set to be released into the wild this summer, after its weaned from its mother. southern sea otters have been listed as threatened since 1977. a count last year showed the population has reached about

3000. warriors coach steve kerr and seth curry are representing their team in the all-star game, but what about the other splash brother? coming up, we'll hear from klay thompson. sports director mark ibanez is next with sports. >> right now, gasia mikaelian has an update for what's coming up at 7:00. >> reporter: a bay area mayor shutting down a popular bay area park. what's behind the mission and what he hopes to accomplish. plus, an overnight standoff comes to a surprising end, after more than 15 hours. these stories and more coming up at 7:00 on tv 36.

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tonight. steph curry starting for the west on the court. coach kerr will be the coach of the west, but they hope to be joined by klay thompson as the reserves will be named next week. >> klay's going to be on the team. he has to be. our staff, our staff would be there, just our organization to be recognized in so many different ways. >> it's always more than that, especially when you got the wins to back it up. that's the biggest thing. like i said, finishing out this all-star break strong and getting a lot of momentum going into the second half of the season, most important part. meantime, baseball stuff, and it's not good news for the a's. their closer, sean doolittle sustained a slightly torn rotator cuff. he will not be ready for opening day. that could get worse. meantime, ryan vogelsong does not sign with the houston astros. instead, he's reupping with the giants. it's a one-year deal worth $4

million for the 37-year-old right-hander. he'll be sticking around with the giants. well, we've had all this talk about deflated balls all week. how about something fun with regard to the nfl? ever wonder what those guys are saying down on the field and on the sidelines? here's a little lip sync activity for you. >> you gotta eat the breakfast! eat breakfast, then lunch! >> i could just throw a rock and i would aim it at your neck so you would get two stitches. >> so wait, you're saying if you don't like her, then you'll buy a girl a secondhand handbag? >> i think my face is happy fuzzy. dude, pick up that penny. >> funtown! >> come on, hug daddy! i love my gopher. >> i thought about what you said, man. i got my legos and i'll bring them. >> oh, okay. >> then we can play all day. >> okay. >> she's so pretty! you guys don't have a problem with this? >> yeah, once got a rake and i killed a snowman.

>> oh, yeah! [ laughter ] >> oh, my goodness. [ laughter ] >> now you know what they say. >> oh, my gosh, that was good. >> someone with a lot of time on their hands. >> that was good. >> you can look it up on our website. >> it goes on a couple minutes. >> that is the sporting life. coming up tonight at 10:00, a new crackdown on e- cigarettes, this time on airplanes. that story and much more, tonight at 10:00. >> see you later. >> good night. >> night.

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